An Unlikely Union

TO use the local lingo, this is starting to do me 'ead in.

Face In The Team - Tanni Grey-thompson Ead Athlete, Wales

IT MAY be the last chance to represent her country but, sentiment aside, it won't be easy for Tanni Grey-Thompson to leave Melbourne with a medal around her neck. Then again, life has been anything but simple for this Welsh woman who has defied the odds for all of her 36 years.

Cowdrey In A Class Of His Own

MATTHEW Cowdrey has achieved much in his life and there is little doubt the articulate 17-year-old will accomplish a lot more. But when Cowdrey takes to the blocks for the 100-metre freestyle elite athletes with a disability event today he will be hoping his performances will one day help lead to a time where there is little distinction between EAD and abled-bodied athletes.

Ead - Elite Athletes With A Disability

BECAUSE the Paralympics are held after the Olympic Games, they sometimes can be lost a little in the wash-up as attention shifts elsewhere.

Ead - Tim Matthews, Elite Athlete With A Disability

Age: 31 Club: South Bendigo Discipline: sprinter

Ead - What It Is

BECAUSE the Paralympics are held after the Olympic Games, they sometimes can be lost a little in the wash-up as attention shifts elsewhere.

Hawthorn V Carlton

MCG ead to head Last time: Haw 16.11 (107) d Carl 11.15 (81) in round two, 2001, at Optus Oval. A notsorare defeat for Carlton at its fortress, as Hawthorn's attacking run and defensive strength were too much for the Blues. Record overall: Haw 44, Carl 100. At this ground: Haw 3, Carl 3.

Rushdie Gets The Picture

LONDON, SATURDAY He had evaded bounty hunters for 10 years, but had reckoned without the paparazzi. ``Come on Salman, punch the air," instructed one snapper. Nothing doing. ``Come on. A picture's worth a thousand words." ``Stick yer 'ead out of the window, Salman," shouted ph

Open Eire

L EAD singer Andrea Corr, recently voted the sexiest woman in Ireland, explained over the microphone that the small audience was watching she and her siblings 'in the rough'. But for the 30 or so Hunter Region fans who were given a private performance by The Corrs last week, the casually dressed

Guaranteed To Put A Spring Back Into Your Step: Water

'E lifted up my 'ead, An' he plugged me where I bled, An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water green, It was crawlin' and it stunk, But of all the drinks I've drunk, I'm gratefullest to one from Gunga Din. - Taken from Kipling's Gunga Din. Every new football s