Tigers Aim To Snare An Advantage

FOR the Melbourne Tigers, the solution is simple, although it will not be easy: win their remaining seven games and they will finish second, which brings two big advantages in the looming National Basketball League finals.

Groups Agree To Restrict Drinkers

A SERIES of meetings on Newcastle's late-night venue problems began yesterday, but already a consensus may have been reached between community organisations on what one aspect of the solution should be.

Quiz Answers / Get It? Solution

Quiz answers: 1 California Dreamin'. 2 42 spots. 3 Maserati. 4 Crocodile. 5 Flukes. 6 Rapid Eye Movement. 7 26th. 8 Margaret Olley. 9 Adam's apple. 10 Rain Shadow. 11 (c) Gherkin 12 Twelfth Night. 13 Four.

Cowdrey's Code Of Conduct Would Put The Game Back On Its Pedestal

As the powers-that-be struggle to rescue cricket from the morass into which it has sunk, they should take another look at a proposed solution that has lain in their files disregarded for almost a decade.

There's No Justification For This Monkey Business

Peter Roebuck's failure to even mention the racism charge against the "Sikh warrior" Harbhajan Singh reads to me like tacit endorsement ("For the sake of our integrity, the arrogant Ponting must be sacked", January 8). Calling Australia's only black player a monkey is not just rudeness. It's not just sledging. It's not just psychological taunting. It's racism. Pure and simple. And those who hold themselves up as spokesmen for our game, like Peter Roebuck, must be part of the solution, or move aside.

Greiner Asked To Solve Port Crisis

THE bottleneck at the state's largest port has become so bad the NSW Government has appointed the former Liberal premier, Nick Greiner, to find a solution.

The Silent Type

Can you find the best solution to this problem?