Sport

Score in overtime with these stories from the playing field.

One thing Ozzie learned that night about Americans is they sure know how to celebrate a win.

What happens when a League-loving lad from Western Queensland goes to Texas as an exchange student, and takes on the locals at their own game?

Man, a good double play is beautiful.
That’s mostly what I miss, being part of
Something beautiful.
I know, I know. Guys
Don’t talk about stuff like that. But this is
Between me and my journal.

Weird title, great read. A verse novel written by 14 year-old Kevin, whose career as first baseman is on hold when he becomes seriously enter. Poetry keeps him sane.

South London 1963. David Wiseman dreams of playing cricket for England. (Hey, they used to be a good team.) When his new neighbour turns out to be a girl and her cricket-mad dad builds a practice net in the backyard, things start looking up. But life beyond the boundary proves not so simple.

I played like a dog.

Johnny Carbone is the gun full forward, but lately he seems to have lost his touch. His success is hidden in nightmares, secrets and a mysterious figure in the night.

All Dad’s talk about fate is well and good, but sometimes life is like soccer. You’ve got to take the ball. No one is going to give it to you.

Gracie is the only girl in an all-boy soccer team. And she isn’t along just to make up the numbers.

It's like you have this idea of yourself. What you're like, who you are. And then suddenly someone strips away the outside and you're different, not a bit like you thought you were.

When Xavier meets gender-bending Nuala, his ideas of being a rugby player take a hammering.

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