Paul Munnings has been the Daily’s sports editor since 2001, joining the paper after spending 10 years at the Tweed Daily News. Unfortunately work prevents him from playing more golf and watching more sport on TV – or writing a longer blurb for his blog! Recent entries
Give Us a Stadium
7 CommentsCome on Gus! It's time. >>
The Sea Eagles wear maroon
3 CommentsAnd nine other reasons to support Manly this weekend. >>
Is this the sporting silly season?
1 CommentsKarmichael Hunt, Darren Lockyer and friends are not alone. >>
Good news for all but Noffke
Our sports stars have enjoyed a wave of success. >>
Noosa's rugby dominance is over
The Barbarians' rise is truly a Cinderella story. >>
London calling our Olympians
The Games of the disappointing Olympiad for the Coast. >>
Time to take Suncoast out of Lions
Our sporting fake resembles the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony. >>
Melanie shines in Olympic spotlight
Schlanger relishes being back in the spotlight. >>
Sonny Bill needs a thank-you
1 CommentsWIlliams' walkout may be positive for Sunshine Coast Snappers. >>
The magic of the mountain
King of the Mountain's big on community and competitor spirit. >>
Let’s get the Shark to Coolum
Does anyone have Chris Evert’s phone number? >>
It’s not wrong to criticise
Good on Nathan Buckley for offering some strong public opinions on Carlton full-forward Brendan Fevola over the weekend. >>
Happy to eat humble pie
It's nice to be proved wrong sometimes. >>
True or False? Some sporting questions answered
Stadium a ‘white elephant’? Warriors better for Moon? >>
‘Hammo’ continues regatta tradition
A 10-metre tiger shark in the changeover zone? >>
TV shouldn’t rule the roost
Television doesn't have to dictate every major sports decision made. >>
Fire makes us flamin' proud
Football upset from a team that's damn good. >>
The day the battlers rose up
A weekend to remember for our struggling sporting sides. >>
Good news for Queensland selectors
State of Origin selectors must be feeling happier today. >>
Where did the crowds go?
3 CommentsTwo meagre crowds show everything's not rosy for football. >>
My money on Kani to win again
There’s always a rematch to be had. >>
Kiwis are losing their love for rugby
Your sport is in trouble when your heartland loses interest. >>
Dolphins get Anzac spirit
The Kawana Dolphins rugby league club tried something a little bit unusual for Sunshine Coast sport on Friday night by playing matches on Anzac Day. >>
Sad ending to the D'Arcy dream
3 CommentsBut his coach still deserves to be honoured. >>
Qld doesn’t need Locky
Here are some lessons learned from the last three days of sport. >>
Time to honour local legend
Clint Robinson has a sporting record unmatched in our history. >>
Noosa is the No.1 AFL option
AFL Queensland faces an interesting conundrum with its plan to get a state league side based on the Sunshine Coast. >>
Coast Sea Eagles face tough competition
Loss to Dolphins showed the strength of the big clubs. >>
Titans now a far cry from the Seagulls
As much as I enjoy living on the Sunshine Coast, a chunk of me is envious about what is happening on the Gold Coast just now. >>
What next for the NBL?
The Queensland Reds are in a bad way. >>
Noosa plays a game of ‘Where’s Kelly’
The world surfing champion can be an elusive man. >>
A threat to the Broncos
You either love or hate the Sea Eagles’ growing presence on the Sunshine Coast. >>
Will Bennett go to the dogs?
Warriors skipper tips changes among league coaches. >>
Eagles need to see some money soon
Twelve months on from the Sunshine Coast’s last NRL trial and what has changed in Coast rugby league? >>
Have your say on our best league players
The search is on for the Team of the Century. >>
Qld TV viewers miss out
2 CommentsWhat is it with Australian free-to-air television networks? They pay millions of dollars to get big-time sport on their channels and then when we finally have something worth watching, they ... >>
Hewitt faces uphill battle
1 CommentsLleyton Hewitt is Australia’s Tim Henman. >>
Who would want to be a cricket umpire?
No other game has officials under as much pressure. >>
Big year ahead for Coast footy
Lining up for a FOGs Cup squad should not be the goal of the Coast’s best league talent. >>
It’s time for Chappelli to pull up stumps
1 CommentsI’m sick of Ian Chappell's boring Channel Nine commentary stints. >>
Noffke best all-round for baggy green
There are two all-rounders in the Queensland Bulls side who, if their current form continues, shouldn’t be there after the Christmas-New Year break. >>
Coolum worthy of own medals
Golf wants to be in the Olympic Games so let’s start a tradition by awarding gold, silver and bronze medals from the 2007 Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship. >>
Steve is on way back again
Anyone who has followed Steven Bowditch’s career, through this paper and on television, know all about highs and lows. >>
A good news week
Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the negatives of sport. >>
Tests need to be sped up
If Test cricket didn’t have a problem before the invention of Twenty20 cricket, it does now. >>
Now we all love the Manly Sea Eagles
1 CommentsBut our Coast team still needs some big bucks. >>
Has the PGA been ‘Sabba-taged’
This year is proving to be a more difficult one with some negative PGA vibes about for the first time. >>
Quad Park, home of political football
2 CommentsFirst there was political football, now there’s political football stadiums. >>
Best of the season
1 CommentsDon't football seasons go by quickly? It doesn’t seem that long ago that thousands crammed into Quad Park for the NRL trial between Melbourne and Manly. >>
Not Nambour's weekend
The rugby-playing Toads still don’t have an A-grade premiership after losing to University 19-14 on Saturday and the league-playing Crushers, trying to defy all of us who have been tipping ... >>
Noosa: Winners can be losers
1 CommentsWould the Dolphins accept defeat graciously if it happened, seeing as they have won much more frequently than they have lost in the past 20 years? >>
Tip: Never back against Noosa
There are no taller poppies in the Sunshine Coast football codes than the Noosa Pirates rugby league side and the Noosa Dolphins rugby team. >>
Raiders are right to bleat about West
1 CommentsWas one of the most dubious video ref calls of the year the mistake which decided the game? >>
Satisfaction guaranteed
Could six weeks of hard training turn an avid sports watcher, who hadn’t run any serious distance in 20 years, into a runner who could finish the Noosa 10km? >>
Pounding the pavement pays off
Hard work without getting results is like being served bacon without eggs – disappointing and not that satisfying. >>
Clubs battle to be fit for finals
2 CommentsWinning an NRL or AFL premiership isn’t about having the best squad in March. It’s who you have left for August and September that counts and that’s why the Brisbane ... >>
Your favourite Broncos moments
2 CommentsThe Daily has been asking readers for their favourite Brisbane Broncos moment from the past 20 seasons. Here are some of the entries we have already received: >>
'I can't' gets the run-around
One phrase has had to disappear from my vocabulary over the past three weeks. It will have to stay away for the next few weeks as well and probably shouldn’t ... >>
Where runners love to tread
1 CommentsThere's a spot in Mooloolaba with a magnetic attraction for a minority group in the Coast community. >>
Uh oh, it's time to get fit
1 CommentsHere's a revelation for those of you who don’t know me all that well. Sports editor of the Sunshine Coast Daily I may be, but fit enough to play many ... >>
Time for horse sense
2 CommentsWhen there’s talk about inductees in the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame, horse trainers haven’t been getting a mention. >>
The Stingrays really aren’t that bad
2 CommentsIf the Sunshine Coast Stingrays’ third Premier Rugby season was judged solely on what’s in the win column on the ladder it would clearly be a failure. >>
‘Magnificent Seven’ are down to just one
If it wasn’t over before, it is now. Chris Flannery’s departure to St Helens has brought an end to an era to remember in Sunshine Coast rugby league. >>
Very strange times in weird world of sport
These are strange times, very strange times. Over the past couple of days we have witnessed some sporting occurrences which come from the “I never thought that would happen” category. >>
Bowen must be a Maroon
Matty Bowen wasn’t in my Queensland State of Origin side for Game One but he’s there for Game Two on Wednesday week. But not at fullback – Karmichael Hunt is ... >>
Broncos not there yet
Theyre back” announced the headline on the television news last night. It doesn’t take long does it. One win for the Brisbane Broncos, a flogging of the Newcastle Knights, was ... >>
It’s crunch time for Fishermans Road
The fight over which Sunshine Coast sporting ground, if any, gets to host AFL preseason cup and practice matches gets serious this week. As revealed on our back page today, ... >>
You have to believe you can be the victor
Self-belief is a wonderful thing. It’s what separates those who are successful in the sporting world, and those who are not successful. Chris Vermeulen wouldn’t be a star in the ... >>
Why it’s so hard for the Falcons
Some people connected with the Sunshine Coast Falcons rugby league team have had enough of the “Falcon bashing” from people around the game. >>
Umpires farce ends a woeful World Cup
Good riddance to the World Cup. Like the rest of Australia’s cricket lovers, I sat watching the television early yesterday morning amazed at how the sport’s showpiece event turned into ... >>
Bring back Ballymore!
THIS may come as a shock to Queensland Reds supporters. Yes, you can go along to a Super 14 game and enjoy it so much that you want to go ... >>
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