Breaking Bad… Habits

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 …

Pirates Cross the Streams

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 …

Captain Colosimo

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 …

Cosby Comes to Canberra, Almost

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 …

Demons Plague Pirates

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 …

Depleted Pirates Go Down To Beavers

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 …

Heightened Security for Pirates

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 …

End of an Era?

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 …

Pandas Steal The Easter Show

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 …

Sun Sets in the East

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 …