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It was Australia Day in Hawaii today, with an amazing set of performances by a whole host of our most underrated athletes, not the least of which is Michellie Jones, our greatest ever Triathlete male or female. A decade after famously declaring she would never race the Hawaiian Ironman, Michellie Jones today became only the [...]

Australia and New Zealand have another go at each other in the second Tri-Nations Rugby League game at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne. After Big Willie having a go at the haka and Kidwell’s response it should be a fiery game. Also of interest is Nathan Fiend finding a cousin twice removed who once passed [...]

Open post for comments about sporting activities over the weekend. If you are participating in sport, tell us about the weekend’s on field glories whether it be your achievements or your someone in your family. Or discuss the sporting news as it happens over the weekend.

It’s about American baseball specifically, but this forum post at Poynter Online is a useful starting point in discussing the nature of sporting journalism in Australia. But there is a much bigger problem here. Sportswriters want to be one of the boys and accepted in the exclusive sports clubbing world. As the Dallas Morning News [...]

Anyone who watched the final of the Currie Cup (the provincial Rugby tournament of South Africa) over the weekend would have been impressed with the vibrant health of Rugby Union in South Africa. The Cheetahs led with minutes to go only for the Blue Bulls to draw level at 25-25 at full time. After 20 [...]

Golly gosh it was good to see recently retired Essendon star Dean Rioli wearing that red and black vest again. Not for Essendon, but for the all-Aboriginal Tiwi Island Bombers at Marrara Stadium in Darwin. They beat the legendary St Marys by 34 points. Ted Egan started off the St Mary’s team five decades ago. [...]

Five’s post on the fast-approaching Ashes series and Bodyline got me thinking about watching cricket. I have a love affair with cricket on the radio. It may have sprung from various viewings of that classic 80s kids film, Fatty Finn. Young Fatty is trying to save for a crystal set and when he finally gets [...]

Just a quick note for your television viewing pleasure….or not. Tonight’s subject on SBS’s Insight program will be on doping in sport. INSIGHT brings together Olympians, athletes, admitted drug cheats, sports administrators, and the anti-doping agency to ask whether sport can ever be drug free. THE CHEATING GAME will be broadcast on TUESDAY OCTOBER 17 [...]

It’s nearly time for the Ashes. So, this fortnight I’ve been training. I’ve hired Bodyline, because I never actually watched it before. The DVD says it was made in 1984, when I was in year 10, and I guess my cricket-hating mum didn’t put it on. Maybe she didn’t realised Gary Sweet was a red [...]

When I was a young lad I had aspirations to be a tearaway quick. Long loping run, more interested in intimidation than line and length, not caring too much where the ball landed as long as it was fast. One thing I learned was that you have to be a little mad to be a [...]