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In a strange coincidence, both the forthcoming sequel to Kazaam, Shazam starring Shane Battier from the Miami Heat, and the American Movil backed, Canberra based basketball team, Shazam, were halted in their tracks on Monday night, the former due to budget cuts and the latter due to the musical stylings of the Pirates Basketball Club. Read More …
While most Pirates fans were busy celebrating San Antonio’s 5th NBA Championship, the Pirates themselves were forced to contain their party attitude and play-out their match against the Ring Stingers. The only people not in a party mood were the dozen or more protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church who mistakenly travelled 12,000km to protest Read More …
The hype surrounding the much anticipated match-up between the Pirates and the Honey Badgers essentially fizzled out as the Pirates found a way to dominate from start to finish against the under-strength Badgers. Fans flocked from all across the country to see the Badgers take on the Pirates and left disappointed with the performance of Read More …
Somewhere deep inside the Pentagon, a junior Air-Force officer ran through the corridor toward the Defence Secretary’s office, dodging the regular foot traffic that abounds in a building of approximately 26,000 employees. Bursting through the door and interrupting an important meeting, Chuck Hagel looked up from his desk and caught the panting face of the Read More …
When knowing is half the battle, the other half is red and blue lasers, neither of which the Pirates had in any great quantity in their battle against G.I. Joe’s sworn enemy, Cobra on Monday night. Despite the fact that the Pirates took an early 8 to 1 lead in the first quarter and the Read More …
An embarrassing first half by the Pirates robbed the team of victory Monday night against the old boys from St. Edmunds who, despite their victory, were not without their own embarrassing behaviour with regard to the referees. The only thing more embarrassing was Tony Abbott’s performance in the polls. Still, with the basketball world fixated Read More …
The Pirates made a triumphant return to the Tuggeranong Treasure Dome Monday night defeating ACTID by 45 points. The opening stanza showed that the Pirates were the dominant side but the scoreline still had ACTID in the hunt up until the start of the second half with Luke Arsego (6 points) doing better than 75% Read More …
Coming off a month long holiday break the Pirates were lacking both the fitness and the skill to keep pace with Ed Pfohl, Chris Colosimo and Russ Koehne from STJ. That said, the Pirates did show greater offensive awareness and that they were capable of going one-on-one with their opponents. Turnovers and unforced errors characterised Read More …
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 …