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Archive for November, 2009

See The Stars! – Sports Personality of the Year 2009 – spread the word!

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Christmas is coming, awards season is coming and not only at Oggs, but also at the BBC with the annual Sports Personality of the Year Awards to be decided in just a few weeks time. Such greats as Henry Cooper, David Beckham, Nigel Mansell, Princess Anne, Dame Kelly Holmes, the list goes on and on for more than 30 years, have won the coveted silver TV camera trophy.

This year could be the most open there has ever been. Not an Olympic or World Cup year the achievements in the big sports, like Football, Tennis, Golf, Athletics, Rugby and Cricket have not thrown up any major achievers, but perhaps it’s a fight out between an athlete, boxer or racing car driver in 2009.

These sports have been well represented on the winners podium before, but this year’s outstanding athletes have all won when not expected to; David Haye, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Jessica Ennis, World Athletics Decathlete and Jenson Button, Formula 1 Racing World Champion.

There might be some who actually disagree with the above, and some who would choose a ‘horse’ over them. For the greatest and most outstanding achievment this year was surely from Sea The Stars who won the 2,000 Guineas, The Derby and Prix De L’Arc De Triomphein 2009. Not just the champion 3 year old colt of the year, but the best flat racing horse of all time.

In 1977 Red Rum, the greatest steeplchaser appeared on the BBC awards show, but missed out on the top award after his third win of the Grand National, but surely it’s time to look at the amazing season See The Stars had and put a horse at the top of the podium in December.

The nature of the wins, the top class opposition beaten so well and the enjoyment the horse gave to so many in the racing fraternity and outside it are all great justifications and far more impressive than one off boxing, athletic or driving races.

So I’d hope you all join with me and ask the BBC to allow us to vote for See The Stars and pass this page on via Facebook and Twitter and whatever means to start the votes rolling in for a true champion. What price Ladbrokes would you give him?

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World Cup the Final Countdown

Monday, November 16th, 2009

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This weekend saw the first of the two leg World Cup play-offs and many of the favoured teams are still not safely on the plane to South Africa 2010. France, Portugal, Russia and Uruguay all take one goal leads into their second legs on Wednesday night.

Elsewhere minnows New Zealand booked their place, the first time in 28 years joining Australia who also had pre-qualified and gives the Oceania group its strongest showing ever in the football finals.
Egypt looked like they would be staying at home until the 94th minute and a last gasp equaliser versus Algeria now requires a further one-off play-off game between the two sides to split the difference and send one heading south next year to compete in the largest soccer spectacle ever.

The bookmakers loved the weekends results, most went according to form, so there were some lucky gamblers too, but the tight scoring means that bookies like Ladbrokes and the rest are able to offer good prices on the more undesired teams with no doubt a shock in the offing somewhere amingst them so it’s worth checking out the prices on Ireland, Bosnia-Herz, Greece or Ukraine and Slovenia.

The World Cup Draw is made in South Africa in just 2 weeks time at the start of December and with so many top teams possibly scraping through unseeded there are no doubt going to be more than one or two Group’s of Death that many countries will wish to avoid to be able to proceed to the last 16 when the latter stage of the World Cup Finals goes into sudden death play-off.

England, qualified on the back of the best campaign they have ever had, but the likes of Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy and the ever present Germany will be the other top seeds who will no doubt meet at one point or another next summer in the world’s largest football tournament in the continent of Africa for the first time ever.

(Being slightly biased, my Irish heritage will no doubt be kicking into gear again this Wednesday as I will the lads in green, from the Emerald Isle, to step up to the task in Paris and recover from the 1-0 defeat at Croke Park this weekend and come away victorious.
There will no doubt be quite a party in a number of shamrock bedecked places across the globe if they do!)

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Fall In Soldier! COD 6 – Modern Warfare 2 – Gaming History

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Today is the official launch of COD6 Modern Warfare 2, dubbed the most anticipated game of the decade by many gamers across the world. Oggs reviewer JC got his hands on a copy 24 hours early of the eagerly anticipated sequel to Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare and his verdict after 8 hours straight gaming? AWESOME!

Playing through the many levels the action is fast paced, breathtaking at times and the cut scenes look no different to the gameplay, the graphics, sound and feel is that precise and good.

All the buttons are the same, the amount of kit and mods has been cranked up and 18 player multi-player works so sweetly you just can’t put it down. A few energy drinks later and the sun rises to bring in a new fresh day and you wonder where all the time went.

FALL IN SOLDIER!

Oggs.com is bringing UK gamers together via Twitter with the hash tag #MW2UK prefix and asking all UK Xbox Live gamers to ‘Fall in Soldier’ and create the largest UK COD6 Modern Warfare 2 clan to be launched tonight. By searching #MW2UK all UK gamers can tweet their Xbox Live profile name for others to befriend and enable UK players to find local gamers to set up Xbox Live Parties and take on the world.

But, it doesn’t stop there, the Americans have #MW2US to do the same and so let the battle commence. Why not start your own hashtag list from the country you are in too and see you online later.

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