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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 …
With most of their injured players back on the squad the Pirates were hoping to at least put on a solid display against division leaders, the Diablos. Despite a slow start, the Pirates looked a different side to those that have taken to the court over the past fourteen rounds, confidently moving the ball and Read More …
A depleted Pirates outfit was forced to rely on their junior ranks in their loss to the Beavers on Tuesday evening. Absent from the line-up were key forwards Todd Gregory, who has not been seen since July 23, and Brett Butler, ruled-out with a calf-injury sustained at the Pirates training session on Sunday. Defensively, the Read More …
A security guard for the Australian Institute of Sport sparked an international incident on Tuesday when they misheard a conversation between team mates of a local basketball team leading to one of the Pirates being taken into witness protection by the FBI at an undisclosed location. The conversation referred to a team in the CPL Read More …
Playing in what could be their final ever match at the Tuggeranong Treasure Dome, the Pirates were soundly beaten by a 66’ers side who were on fire nailing everything on the court, including Mrs. Davy Jones’ locker which was in need of urgent attention. The Pirates needed to lift for their final game of the Read More …
While most families were enjoying the four-day Easter holiday at the traditional Royal Easter Show, a group of half-robot, half-panda mutants briefly stole focus from those Sydneysiders to defeat an arrogant Pirates crew. Holidays, attitude and ultimately frustration got the better of the Pirates on Monday night as the Robo Pandas Rick-rolled the scurvy laced Read More …
Just as the sun is setting on another Australian summer and another CMG competition, the sun was also beginning to set on bitter rivals Easts after the Pirates toughed it out to score a thrilling come-from-behind victory. Missing some of their big guns due to injury and suspensions, Easts were always going to be at Read More …
The Duke himself was on-hand to witness the tragedy that was the Pirates versus We Got Game match, taking aim at some of the players before being asked to holster his weapons. No, we’re not talking about John Wayne, nor are we talking about representatives from Duke University. We are in fact referring to none Read More …
While the rest of Canberra was busy celebrating its centenary, the Raptors made the long and arduous trip to Bray Town where the population only served to send the Raptors home with sour memories and two less competition points. It wasn’t a great start for the boys in black as the first few offensive sets Read More …