Dear Family and Friends,
“Jelena’s
Dream Over” screamed the front page headline of the
Melbourne Herald Sun. Jelena Dokic, ex Serbian now Australian, had just lost
her match in the round of sixteen at the Australian Open Tennis Championship,
and with it Australia lost its hope for a ‘home grown’ champ in this year’s
event. Jelena bowed out to Russian Diana Safina, who in turn, lost in the final
to Serena-does-my-ass-look-big-in-this-outfit Williams. Oops.
Australia is the only place I know where the prime space in newspapers is reserved for sporting news. Not just some days, but pretty much every day The Australian, The Age, and other national newspapers reserve space on their first page for sports, whether it be ‘footy’, Australian rules, cricket, golf or any other sport followed by sports mad Australians. News of lesser import, turmoil in the mid-East, the global economic meltdown, domestic woes, and national politics etc. find space on inside pages.
Well, g'day folks, I'm traveling again.
