Issue 01 | February 25,2013 | critic.co.nz

SPORTS GUS GAWN | sports@critic.co.nz
Sport stops
you getting fat,
look it up.
the sports pages are back for another
year. One more year of denying the indie
kids their ultimate goal of reserving Critic
for unreadable niche comic strips, reviews of
bands you never heard of and articles they plagiarised
off Vice. Luckily, in 2013 we once again
have an editor who loves his sports. This is good
news and we should enjoy it while it lasts. Soon
enough the editor’s chair will be filled with some
feminist hippie who doesn’t even watch UFC.
Last year I realised there’s a shitload of students
at Otago University who do awesome things in
sport that we never hear about. University is
nothing like high school; at no time will you
be forced to sit in a hall and clap for people and
teams that you don’t care about. Unfortunately,
this means that many athletes achieving really
awesome things slip under the radar. This year
we are going to try to put as many sporting
Scarfies, past and present, on these pages.
We will give them a little bit of the recognition
they deserve.
As you read this, Dunedin is halfway through the
best sporting lineup the city has seen in decades.
I hope you showed up to the Highlanders and
Warriors games or intend to head to the cricket,
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the Phoenix or the All Whites. You definitely
won’t be seeing that kind of variety for a while.
Once the cricket test is over and the All Whites
have played next month, the Highlanders will
pretty much be it for genuine professional sport
for the rest of the year. We better hope they live
up to the hype.
Many students, especially girls, give up organised
sport once they leave high school. It’s true
that not playing sport on Saturday leaves more
time for getting on the piss, fair enough, but
sports do have something going for them. They
stop you getting fat. If you are new to Dunedin,
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Visit Allpress Dunedin Roastery,
12 Emily Siedeberg Place.
Available until 31st March 2013.
don’t doubt me on this one. You will get fat. Some
will get fatter than others but nobody is exempt.
So, sign up for something at the OUSA Recreation
Centre (formally Clubs and Socs) or join one of
the local clubs scattered around the city. Sport is
guaranteed to ward off the fresher five.
If you know someone whom you think is good
enough at their sport or interesting enough
to appear on these pages, send an email to
sports@critic.co.nz and they might get Critic
famous (it’s not real fame). If you want to write
sporting words there is also room for more contributors
– especially girls, we need more girls.