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Postcards Home Reports from Belo Interactive contributors at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia John Banks' e-mail home 09/18/2000 By John Banks / DallasNews.com
Rowers rowing. Sydneysiders smiling. Journalists whining. And so on this fine day our thoughts appropriately turned to.....the NFL? Yep. We confess. We miss good ol' American football. Heck, a small part of us even misses those hapless Cowboys. So we decided to embark on a very informal, highly unscientific search for answers: Where can one watch NFL games in Sydney? What do Aussies think of the NFL? The answers: Not many places and not much. "My husband watches the Super Bowl every year on ESPN," an employee at the Help Desk of the Main Press Center said. (ABC, CBS, Fox marketing folks, please note.) "But not many people care for that around here." Rugby and Australian Rules Football, of course, are all the rage, she said. In Sydney, one of the few places you may watch NFL games is One World Sport, part of the casino complex in the Darling Harbour District. Of their 70 screens, "maybe four" are tuned to NFL games each week, an employee said. "About three times a week, we get requests from Americans to watch games," he said. "But most Australians simply don't care for it." The Sydney Sun-Herald, a tabloid, devoted four columns Sunday to NFL news on Page 98, in between the liquor ad and the Formula One news. Under the headline "Rest is the Best, Buddy" is a story on Troy Aikman sitting out the game against the Redskins. And the Sun-Herald also included a complete NFL schedule for Monday, Sept. 18. Sydney is 16 hours ahead of Dallas, so that must-see Pittsburgh-Cleveland game starts at 4 a.m. Monday. We'll pass, thank you. The Cowboys- Redskins game Monday night game? It begins Tuesday at noon. That's a big day for equestrian. Given the state of the Cowboys, equestrian never looked so good. G'day.
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Track star 
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swimming gold medalist Ryan Berube 
SYDNEY, Australia – It's a beautiful, crisp spring morning Down Under, a perfect day to watch people here do what they do best.
