Just put a PIN on my skin

TWO of modern life's markers really get me going.

Webb riled by rules controversy over green marker

KARRIE Webb left Commonwealth last night with the sweet taste of a birdie at the 18th hole and a fine final round of three-under-par 70.

Comment backfires as dicky knees, fingers, hammies take toll

AND everyone was worried we'd be playing the West Indies Second XI this summer. With the Aussies dropping like flies over in India, perhaps Australia will be fielding its Second XI also?

For the 'thinking man', Fastnet Rock leads the pack: Coolmore

COOLMORE Australia's regular newsletters are always entertaining, although naturally biased towards its stallions, and this week's edition was up with the best of them.

Insider's Hsc View

A SENIOR Higher School Certificate marker says there are probably too many school assessments throughout the year and that the burden may work against a good performance at exam time, when it really counts.

Hard Marker Smith Uses C Word

THE word was muffled but the message was clear. NSW had gotten away with blue murder in State of Origin I. Even, as Queensland skipper Cameron Smith said slightly under his breath yesterday, cheating.

Geelong Well Aware 'millionaire' Teams Can Pay A High Price

Geelong has become its own hardest marker as the winning roll gathers even more momentum.

Look Who's Bringing Up Baby

A 'manny' is a must-have marker of wealth in Manhattan and the star of Holly Peterson's debut novel, Lily Bragge writes.

A-league Future Uncovered In West

WESTERN Sydney will one day have its own A-League team - it's not a question of when but where. So put down May 2, 2007, as the day Penrith put down a convincing marker to become the base from which one of the competition's great rivalries could be built.

Roosters Not Making Mark

SOUTH Sydney coach Jason Taylor is sure rival NRL teams will continue attacking the Roosters' controversial one-marker tactic after it was brutally exposed by the Rabbitohs on Monday night.

Allenby Finally Gets The Pain Off His Back - Now For Those Monkeys

The hard marker craves more wins, writes Peter Stone.

Bk's Tough Love Warranted As Manly Fluff Lines

BEN Kennedy is a very hard marker, but that is what you've got to be if you want your team to get anywhere in such a tough, even competition.

Hayden's Fighting Words Saved Test Career

WHEN Matthew Hayden first started losing the magic, when he couldn't find a big score for love nor money, when the usually reliable opener stumbled from one disappointment to another and his Test place was initially brought into serious question, he grabbed a marker pen and wrote on the back of his misbehaving bat: "This is worth fighting for".

A Battle Won, Hayden Fires Up For Another Test

WHEN Matthew Hayden first started losing the magic, when he couldn't find a big score for love nor money, when the usually reliable opener stumbled from one disappointment to another and his Test place was brought into serious question, he grabbed a marker pen and wrote on the back of his bat: "This is worth fighting for".

Four Years On, The Lessons Of 9/11 Are Still Being Learned

IT WILL remain forever a defining moment of the 21st century, a sentinel marker in an age when so much is quickly forgotten. This was the point at which the vulnerability of the United States of America - economically and militarily the most powerful nation in the world - was exposed. The opening sentence of the subsequent official commission of inquiry captures it precisely: "At 8.46 on the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States became a nation transformed." It was not nuclear weapons ...

Markers Unmasked

WORK is nearing completion on the upgrade of three tall, orange navigation marker poles on Newcastle Harbour.