Some drawn-out reading for you tonight

Excuse the pun, but I'm taking a one-day break from ITM Cup reporting to bring you the results of two games that ended in draws.

First off, it's the AFL Grand Final. Over 100,000 spectators were packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground to watch Collingwood and St Kilda tie  9.14 (68) - 10.8 (68). Collingwood's nine goals were apportioned as follows: Travis Cloke scored two and Darren Jolly, Jared Blair, Alan Didak, Dale Thomas, Brent McAffer, Harry O'Brien, and Harry Davis each scored one. St Kilda's ten were apportioned as follows: Nick Riewoldt, Stephen Milne, and Brendon Goddard scored two goals apiece and Adam Schneider, Justin Koschitzke, Sam Gilbert, and Lenny Hayes each kicked one. The Grand Final Sprint at half-time was won by Luke Miles from St Kilda.

Then it was time to get the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup final out of the way. You may think it's just 22 teenage girls kicking a ball round for 90 minutes, or you may think that only a paedophile would be interested in such a spectacle, but there is a lot more to it than that - people have defected from North Korea throughout the years with most heading to South Korea or Japan and now the trophy being contested would also have to defect from North Korea, who won it in 2008, to either of those two countries. The game was drawn 3-3, with South Korea's goals being scored by Lee Sung-eun, Kim Ar-eun, and Lee So Dam, and Japan's goals being scored by Hikaru Naomoto, Yoko Tanaka, and Chika Kato. Also, nobody got booked or sent off in the whole match. South Korea won the penalty shootout 5-4 (but at least the trophy didn't have to cross the Demilitarized Zone). And this was all done with the somewhat controversial Jabulani ball used in South Africa earlier this year. How's that for sticking it to Kim Jong-Il?