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In only his second game back from the CBA (Croatian Basketball Association), Pirates forward Matt “Darth Vader” Dallwitz (3 points, 15 rebounds, 2 steals) made a big impression in his side’s game against the Hornets and although the high-flying insects severely stung the swashbuckling renegades, Dallwitz showed that he was capable of some altitude of Read More …
Although the Pirates may have secured a major movie deal at the end of Tuesday night’s game, the Spartans secured another convincing victory over the Pirates in a match between two friendly rivals. Speculation had been growing for months before Tuesday’s contest about who would star in Dreamworks latest sporting blockbuster, “Space Jam 2: Slow Read More …
Once again finding little consistency in their line-up on Tuesday night, the Pirates battled on to give the Hellfish a run for their money in the first half of their round 24 encounter, trailing by just one point at the end of twenty minutes play. The Pirates made great strides improving their performance and attitude Read More …
With fans still revelling in Monday night’s finale of hit television show, Breaking Bad, it was then the Pirates turn to show they had broken their bad habits when they took on the Diablos on Tuesday night. Sadly, they were unsuccessful in breaking their habits as well as breaking their drought of victories as they Read More …
Thousands of adoring teenage fans arrived at Canberra Grammar on Tuesday night expecting to see their idol, Justin Bieber, only to discover that due to an auto-correct mistake on the promotional poster, they were there to see the Pirates take on the Beavers. Though most left in tears, some stayed to watch Bieber look alike, Read More …
Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the day Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis spoke about thinking about discussing the idea of writing Ghostbusters the movie, the Pirates and the Bears met in a Ghostbusters themed game that saw the Bears narrowly defeat the Pirates 44 to 35. Just like in any good true-to-life movie, the game Read More …
STJ Captain Chris Colosimo led his team to victory Tuesday night against the Pirates who were again without stars Ben Roberts and Taylor Sneddon. Keeping pace with STJ for the first half, the Pirates would have been happy with their efforts but a lacklustre second half that lacked focus, urgency and skill killed any chance Read More …
30,000 eager fans turned-up to the Australian Institute of Sport on Tuesday night expecting an evening with famed television comedian, Bill Cosby. Instead fans were treated to the 19th episode of the Bill Clisby show, where even Clisby (9 points, 3 assists, 1 steal, 2 blocks, 5 rebounds) was upstaged by one of his co-stars, Read More …
Another dismal start to their game saw the Pirates suffer yet another harsh defeat at the hands of a vengeful Spartans outfit who badly wanted to rectify their earlier overtime defeat in their round 9 encounter. Despite winning the tip, the Pirates were overly ambitious in their opening first half gambit, relying more on the Read More …
Asafa “Asa” Phelps (no relation to Olypmic champion Michael Phelps), decorated World War II veteran and co-founder of the Hellfish, died at 6:20pm on Tuesday evening aged 92. It was only after a long running and bitter feud with C. Montgomery Burns that nature finally assassinated Phelps, accomplishing what Fernando Vidal and several other imprisoned Read More …