Frank Keating: Farewell to Stradey: ugly, cherished theatre
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
A tip Stradey Park may well have been, but it played host to many a memorable sporting occasion
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Riddle of England haka response
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Riddle of England haka response Page 1 of 2 Photo / Getty ImagesYour ViewsIs UK columnist Frank Keating right about the All Blacks' haka? Related NZHerald links: The England rugby team are staying mum on how they will respond to the haka when they meet the All Blacks at Twickenham tomorrow morning.Doug Howlett and Rua Tipoki pre-empted the All Blacks with Ka Mate before their Munster...
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Tracey Barnett : 'Stupid stomp' has depth and power to move
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Tracey Barnett: 'Stupid stomp' has depth and power to move Page 1 of 2 4:00AM Wednesday Nov 26, 2008By Your ViewsIs UK columnist Frank Keating right about the All Blacks' haka? Related NZHerald links: I have suffered for my new culture here in New Zealand. On the eve of my wedding years ago in the US to one of you people, it was decreed that we play a pre-nuptial volleyball game to settle...
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Editorial: Haka criticism worth heeding
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Editorial: Haka criticism worth heeding 4:00AM Tuesday Nov 25, 2008Your ViewsIs UK columnist Frank Keating right about the All Blacks' haka? Related NZHerald links: It was, in many ways, fortunate that new life was breathed into the haka at the weekend. introduced a new and welcome twist to a relationship that was showing significant signs of fraying.The haka was in danger of becoming...
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Rugby: Natives inducted into hall of fame
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Rugby: Natives inducted into hall of fame Joe Warbrick combined three jobs - player, coach and manager - on the tour. Photo / SuppliedYour ViewsIs UK columnist Frank Keating right about the All Blacks' haka? New Zealand's first touring rugby team to Britain was inducted into the International Rugby Union's Hall of Fame yesterday.Nearly two decades before the 1905 Originals became part...
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Maori minister defiant over role of haka
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
The new Minister of Maori Affairs is less than impressed by a call from a journalist in the United Kingdom for the haka to be axed. Guardian writer Frank Keating said New Zealand's "charmless eye-rolling, tongue squirming dance"...
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David Leggat: Haka standoffs are sublime theatre
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
A few days ago, Frank Keating, the veteran sports columnist of Britain's Guardian newspaper, let fly at the haka. "The haka has become tiresomely irksome ...
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Cricket: England in India: David Hopps tour diary
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
I always assumed that Frank Keating had embellished the nickname (yes, I know, it was cruel even to imagine it for a minute) but in Indore I realised otherwise when I really was asked: "Where is Mr Iron Bottom?'' It is good to know that in the rapidly changing world of cricket some traditions never change. It was in Indore against Central Zone in 1981-82 that Ian Botham bludgeoned 122...
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When You Sleep: November 14, 2008
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... Bush's VP candidate... before ultimately picking himself. You can ask former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating —and you can bet other top Republicans who harbored any thoughts about bucking the new administration got the message. (Cheney apparently such detailed information about himself...)
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Scott Peters successfully borrows from the Dick Cheney playbook
America's Finest Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... away or discredit such potential running mates as Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge or Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating. An unusually detailed, intrusive questionnaire demanded extensive info about prospects' financial, personal and medical histories. Cheney himself, however, never underwent any such scrutiny.This is amazing. And guess what, San Diego -- we've just seen our own such Cheney-style...
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Golf And The Election...
GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The Guardian's Frank Keating ponders Tuesday's presidential election and golf's place in White House history . Is it compulsory for golf to enhance the CV of a US president? John McCain remembers to tell how he "hit a mean ball" at naval college, and only as the election campaign hotted up, we're told, did Barack Obama suspend his "seriously committed" golf lessons with his Springfield...
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ACLI On Election of Senator Barack Obama
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
ACLI President & CEO Frank Keating issued the following statement in response to the presidential election of Senator Barack Obama: WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Political campaigns are a celebration of our democracy and elections are an expression of our national unity. We debate the issues fully and aggressively, but once we elect a new president, we join together...
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