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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 …
By all accounts, it was the game of the season so far in the DMG on Monday night when the North South Ballers challenged the Pirates in a demonstration of good sportsmanship that had razzle, dazzle and just a little bit of frazzle. Once again the Pirates took their time getting warmed up in 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 …
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 …
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 …