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Evan Harding

Lamenting Lleyton: the unpopular Aussie battler

Despite another early exit from the Australian Open, Lleyton Hewitt again displayed the qualities that both endear and ostracise his fans. Evan Harding takes a look at the dichomtomy.

Internationals gear up for the Melbourne Cup

As the Spring Racing Carnival gets underway, the 150th Melbourne Cup is looking like it may be the most international edition in the great race’s history. Evan Harding casts his eye over some of the hopefuls for the first Tuesday in November.

Upcast: Episode 10

Ryan Jon hosts UPCAST episode 10, talking about the Spring Racing Carnival with racing guru Ben Asgari and the AFL coaching merry-go-round with Sports Editor Evan Harding.

Lamenting Lleyton: the unpopular Aussie battler

Despite another early exit from the Australian Open, Lleyton Hewitt again displayed the qualities that both endear and ostracise his fans. Evan Harding takes a look at the dichomtomy.

Internationals gear up for the Melbourne Cup

As the Spring Racing Carnival gets underway, the 150th Melbourne Cup is looking like it may be the most international edition in the great race’s history. Evan Harding casts his eye over some of the hopefuls for the first Tuesday in November.

Upcast: Episode 10

Ryan Jon hosts UPCAST episode 10, talking about the Spring Racing Carnival with racing guru Ben Asgari and the AFL coaching merry-go-round with Sports Editor Evan Harding.

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Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 22

In a never-ever-ever-before-seen concept of looking back at a tournament thus far, Evan Harding presents his five highs and lows of the first three weeks of the World Cup, previews the first two quarter-finals and even sneaks in a Chappelle’s Show reference.

upstart takes on the World (Cup): day 21

With a match-free night, we have a chance to look back on the events of the last three weeks with some measure of calm, which isn’t exactly how Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has seen things.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 20

He mightn’t be kicking Yuichi Komano while he’s down, but Evan Harding is quite happy to sink the slipper into the world’s second-best player.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 19

Brazil will be there for you like they’ve been there before, as Evan Harding remembered when watching the World Cup’s most successful team stifle the Chilean creativity. He now looks forward to the Iberian derby and Paraguay’s chance to make it South America’s best tournament ever.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 18

The predictable English failure has finally happened, and Evan Harding looks at why, ponders the video referee question and FIFA censorship and previews tonight’s action.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 17

The USA were chanting ‘Yes, we can’ but even in a parallel universe, it wasn’t Landon’s lads on the winning side. Evan Harding looks back at the first two second-round matches and previews tonight’s must-see fixtures.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 16

Last night saw the most thrilling part of the World Cup and the most boring as well – all in one match. It was enough to make Evan Harding summon up a ’60s musical.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 15

What do John Lennon, Radiohead and Alicia Keys have in common? And what does that have to do with anything anyway? Evan Harding looks back at last night’s action and previews the last four matches of the group stage.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 14

It was a 24 hours full of heartbreaking exits, and not just for the Socceroos, writes Evan Harding. But there’s still hope going forward, and a new bidder for the 2018 World Cup.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 13

Day 13 and with their immediate future on the line, will the Socceroos run out of luck? Evan Harding looks at tonight’s big matches from Groups C and D, while reviewing the fate of the vanquished from last night.

Upstart Takes on the World (Cup): Day 12

It was satisfaction for the good-looking last night, and Evan Harding looks forward to the first four entries into the knockout stages tonight.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 10

Day 10 is already upon us and so Evan Harding doesn’t mention the words ‘red’ or ‘card’, in his review of the last day’s events and the preview of tonight’s action.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 8

The 2010 World Cup finally got what it needed on Day 8 and the tournament’s most polarising figure is the man behind it all, writes Evan Harding. And what’s that thing he’s got in his head?

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 7

It was the biggest shock so far, but for the sake of the tournament this was one underdog we didn’t want to win, writes Evan Harding as he looks back on the first round and ahead to Day 7.

upstart turns one

Upstart is one year-old this Saturday. Co-founders Lawrie Zion and Chris Scanlon look back on the first twelve months of an experiment that’s resulted in dozens of students and journalists publishing more than 500 items on the site.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 5

Day 5 gets underway soon, but it seems the entertainment is being taken away by the J-word and the V-word, writes Evan Harding. Is it all just hot air?

Upstart takes on the World (Cup)

The world’s premier sporting event is here and we’re taking it on with a daily column filled with expert analysis, reasoned opinion and accurate predictions. Except for the ‘expert’, ‘reasoned’ and ‘accurate’ parts…

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 4

In his look at Day 4 of the World Cup, Evan Harding believes in the power of positive thinking and suggests an upset on the cards for tonight.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 2

It’s Day 2 of the World Cup and Evan Harding reviews last night’s action, previews tonight’s, and takes a brief detour into Wrongtown.

Upstart takes on the World (Cup): Day 1

In what is planned as the first of a daily series, Evan Harding kicks off a semi-informed look at the world’s biggest tournament, and even briefly enters Nelson Mandela’s head.