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sarah

@sleeplesshockey.bsky.social
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freelance sportswriter, ✍️ guardian australia. the botchford project, change our game: women in sports media (making the call). assigned wicketkeeper at birth. views my own. she/her 🏳️‍🌈 sleeplesshockey.substack.com

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Lachlan Irvine @lachinthecrease.com · 28/12/2025
The Goldies are here, written by @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social!! lachinthecrease.substack.com/p/the-goldie...
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
my guardian sport sidebar debut. kanga kanga kanga 🦘 www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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Kangaroos stare down brave Lions to prove even the loftiest AFLW dreams can come true
Brisbane came to slay the dragon and were there for a fight. But North Melbourne’s killer instinct has no off switch
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
my guardian sport sidebar debut. kanga kanga kanga 🦘 www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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Kangaroos stare down brave Lions to prove even the loftiest AFLW dreams can come true
Brisbane came to slay the dragon and were there for a fight. But North Melbourne’s killer instinct has no off switch
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
trav is being utterly vindictive for this stokes over, my goodness. what a statement #ashes
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
now is an excellent time to remind you that it was travis head in the last #ashes series in australia who quite literally inspired bazball in the first place. they have literally referenced it
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
this isn't bazball. this is the reason they had bazball in the first place: that is, they had a bad test team and a good short form team. this time around, they just thought maybe they had a good test team again. well. #ashes
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
gooood morning, here's me waxing a little poetic about carlton www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
[to the tune of WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!] baby........ where the hell is pat cummins
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
hello!! i am very much a free agent when it comes to ashes coverage, so if you know of any freelance opportunities to cover the madness that's about to ensue, i'd love to hear about them!!! example of the waxing poetic kinda stuff i love to write: sleeplesshockey.substack.com/p/mitch-mars...
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Mitch Marsh and THAT knock
Thoughts on a single-session century that, much like Marsh's presence in the team, exists in defiance of all expectation. (Day One, Headingley)
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
was just absolutely transfixed by litchfield's footwork that entire innings. she's something else
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
i know it's just the lead-up to this tournament but it does feel like australia has played india approximately 20,000 times in the past two months
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
lord help me i'm about to recreate the infamous alex hartley tweet word for word
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
excited to have the australian men as a curtain-raiser to the women's odi later. will be great to raise the profile of the young fellas, and get a few eyes on the men's game that otherwise wouldn't have tuned in
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
look, as someone who's gone out in a lot of embarrassing ways, i don't really have a leg to stand on. so i won't be commenting on that wicket. just thinking it very loudly
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
perth, what the hell
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
if it's the sort of rain where meg lanning would look you in the eye and say 'what rain.' then it's not raining. what is this 😭
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
matt renshaw trying everything he can to emulate sammy konstas' route to an australian test opener berth. yes this is commentary on the moustache
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
pretty embarrassing to have male commentators sitting there calling this the first day of the cricket summer when the australian women's team quite literally JUST qualified for a world cup semi final. like actually a bit embarrassed for them
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
this australian nhl broadcast is farcical thus far. feed keeps dropping out and freezing. why this needed to be done from new york if there are such high level connectivity issues is beyond me but it's pretty insulting.
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
i love world cup logic. you're allowed to drop that one actually because you hit a match-winning century the other day. runs on the board, so to speak, over several matches. also of note is beth mooney can do whatever she wants for the rest of the tournament
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
beth. mooney.
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Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
They just took a Florida goal off the board (it was scored like six minutes ago in playing time) because Mikkola was ejected but hadn't left? Never seen anything like this.
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
it's today, make sure you tune in!!! or get down to the ground if you're in brissy or adelaide
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
for my latest feature, i had the privilege of chatting to ebony and ally ahead of what will be a huge milestone weekend for each of them. just a really fantastic moment, and a great chance for us to reflect on nearly a decade of the #aflw www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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Stars align as AFLW stalwarts Ebony Marinoff and Ally Anderson become first to reach 100-game milestone | Sarah Guiney
In delightful sporting symmetry, the Adelaide Crows and Brisbane Lions will also mark their 100th games as the two inaugural players make history
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
spending my first rainy morning back in melbourne watching quinn hughes highlights #coping #strength #inspiring
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
community means showing up for each other, which is exactly what mitch brown did. my latest for the guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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Mitch Brown’s words spoke to the queer footy community at a time when the AFL put it last | Sarah Guiney
Community is everything in Australian rules football and Brown chose this moment to speak his truth so that others might draw strength from his experience
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
community means showing up for each other, which is exactly what mitch brown did. my latest for the guardian: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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Mitch Brown’s words spoke to the queer footy community at a time when the AFL put it last | Sarah Guiney
Community is everything in Australian rules football and Brown chose this moment to speak his truth so that others might draw strength from his experience
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
this is the most community-minded thing i could imagine. to do this now. to do this knowing what the reaction would be. mitch brown, we see the hell out of what this is and you are amazing. absolute legend, our arms are around you
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
the most maxwellball way to win a game
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
getting my first aflw piece published and discovering there are people on the everything app who must have alerts or something on for 'aflw' just so they can add pissy little hateful comments
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
happy AFLW eve!!! ❤️ ahead of tomorrow's season ten opener, some thoughts on what it means to succeed in a league defined by change: www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2...
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
naarm pals: get outside and let this sun rewire your brain!!! 🧘‍♀️
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
in sarah news: i'm doing a bit of writing for the guardian australia's sports section!!!! really excited about it. my first feature is on indoor skydiving - hope you enjoy!! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
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‘Who wouldn’t want to fly?’: The dizzying twists of indoor skydiving laugh in the face of gravity | Sarah Guiney
At the Australian indoor skydiving championships the wind tunnel is your personal bottle of sky where you can prolong the simulation of freefall
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DAISY CUTTER @daisycutterzine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
There’s misogyny at every level of cricket, whether you’re a fan, staff, media, player, coach, anything. It’s making women unsafe. It’s making them abandon the sport they love. If there’s no place for this in cricket, what are you going to do about it? daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/n...
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“No place for misogyny in cricket”? It’s everywhere.
TW: mentions of sexual misconduct, abusive behaviour. On Wednesday morning the Cricket Regulator announced that an unnamed coach has been banned for nine months (three suspended) for “inappropriate…
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
just saying.
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
i think a mankad in the fifth test could cause an international incident
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
quinn hughes posting a photo of himself struggling to climb onto a jet ski that's my captain!!! 🫡🫡🫡
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
WNBA all stars wearing a "Pay us what you owe us" shirt in warmups
Caitlin Clark in the shirt which is black with white lettering
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
it's tonight!!!! they're apparently screening iconic women's sports moments instead since the opals were too good and qualified straight through
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
have the canucks tried not trading away guys i like. just a thought
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
naarm folks!!! psa that the w club (women's sports bar!!!) finally opened in abbotsford, with a 'pub warming' event this friday but it's open already. let's absolutely get around it, yeah????
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Marissa Lordanic @marissalordanic.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
almost forgot a scott boland hat trick is the whole point
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
a genuinely thrilling conclusion to this test match that is also the most glacial, excruciating thing i've seen in a minute. who is doing it like test cricket
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
what are they doing...........
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
both england and australia are about to select one of their opening bats based purely on shithousery. we live in a beautiful world
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
don't have particularly strong feelings about that crawley over except that it's a relief to have it not happen in the ashes, where we'd be hearing about the spirit of cricket for the rest of time
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sarah @sleeplesshockey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
i'm secure enough in who i am as a person to admit that england coming to australia, playing normal test cricket, and then calling it bazball would trigger me harder than anything has in my life. rattled just thinking about it. i'm pre-mad. they'd better bloody not
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Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com · 11/07/2025
I see Jofra Archer got a wicket in his first over. What a lovely tribute to Mitchell Starc on the eve of his 100th Test #ENGvIND #WIvAUS 🏏
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