Sport needs a social conscience
A lot has been recently about connecting elite sporting groups with the grassroots community and there has definitely been an acknowledgement for the need to make connections. However, perhaps the...
View ArticleExploring sport’s greatest rivalries
What makes a rivalry great? I have been thinking about this since the 2013 AFL draw come out, with Carlton again taking on the Tigers in the first round. Carlton and Richmond are rivals, but I didn’t...
View ArticleHow to prevent Tippet and tanking
Mr Demetriou and co. at the AFL have had a torrid time of late. Since the end of an intriguing trade and free agency period, Israel Folau decided it was time to pack up and go anywhere else but AFL and...
View ArticleTaking a look at the best of virtual sports
Since you’re on your PC reading about sport, I’m assuming you like computers and sports. So I am going to combine the two and list some of my favourite sports games. I have not included trackside as my...
View ArticleIs horse racing too dirty to ever clean up?
This is a dark time for the image of racing in this country. However, it is not that the problems are new, it is just that racing, as an industry, has hid so many skeletons in the closet that the door...
View ArticleDeans isn’t Aussie rugby’s only problem
David Campese has been calling, yet again, for the blood of Robbie Deans. He makes some valid points – the Wallabies try scoring rate is quite atrocious. No top level international team should have a...
View ArticleRugby Sevens the key to fix attacking woes
Robbie Deans has yet again managed to grasp a win when the executioner was sharpening his axe. However, despite showing plenty of courage against the old foe, the men in gold also showed their ball...
View ArticleA positive culture leads to sporting success
It seems the days of footballers behaving badly may finally be coming to an end. The success of the Sydney Swans and their ‘no dickheads’ policy has shown that a strong and positive culture is worth as...
View ArticleWhy are we so angry at Izzy and the code jumpers?
Let’s get one thing straight: code hopping isn’t a new thing. It’s been happening for years, so why is there such anxiety around it in the modern day? Some of the articles written about Israel Folau’s...
View ArticleT20 is the new ODI
Adam Gilchrist’s prediction in The Age that One Day International cricket will be dead in three years is right on the money. The only thing that can save it is, well, money. The one dayer has become...
View ArticleA salute to the also-rans of sport
Joel Parkinson, the perennial place getter of the surf scene, finally clinched his first world title in Hawaii on Sunday, and officially avoided the title of being an ‘almost’. It must have been a...
View ArticleWhat we now know about expansion
There has been a lot of expansion in Australian sport recently, with some great successes and some spectacular crash and burns. So what lessons have we learnt? We have welcomed eight new clubs into the...
View ArticleWhen sport works at its simple best
The ACC investigation dominating news headlines in the past week, as the bad habits some athletes in this country have taken on- drugs, alcohol, betting- finally caught up with the . So, for a bit of a...
View ArticleShould Ellyse Perry continue playing two sports?
Is Ellyse Perry good for women’s sport? Of course she is, you say. She is a young, multi-talented, charismatic sportswoman with looks and personality to boot. Everyone nationwide (and probably...
View ArticlePolitical influences on sport: positive or negative?
The recent storm caused by the ACC report into criminal activity in Australian sport, fronted by politician Kate Lundy, has raised the question: Should political influences on sport be encouraged for...
View ArticleOur local heroes are not immune to drugs
With The ACC are circling the Cronulla Sharks, and Essendon having already semi-sorta-pre-admitted they may have a problem, surely we can now accept, at elite level football, there is a problem with...
View ArticleHow the EPL will look at season end
Can the Red Devils be stopped? Who will be in Europe next season? Can Wigan manufacture another great escape? Here is my prediction for how this instalment of the English Premier League will conclude:...
View ArticleAustralian teams need some mongrel back
How I long for my teenage years – roughly 1995 to 2005. Not because now I’m a bit podgier, a little slower, and can’t recover from a hangover nearly as well. I miss these days because Australia was...
View ArticleThe awkward bedfellows: sport, technology, and my conscience
It seems the world game is beginning to buckle to the trends set by the likes of tennis, rugby league, American football, and cricket (among others) and allow the use of technology to assist umpires in...
View ArticleClub doctors out, league doctors in
Rogue club doctors, medics, and self-proclaimed sports scientists have done the reputation of our favourite sports and their medical programs irreparable damage. Player health is being toyed with, not...
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