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The Bronx is Burning is a 2007 eight episode ESPN series (yeah, they make drama too. Who knew?) about the famous 1977 Yankees. Due to the tyranny of distance, my interest in baseball is casual but there’s alot I find attractive about the game, and the mythology that surrounds it. By accident [...]

In a day and age where so many sports people are as stage managed as politicians it’s refreshing to see there’s at least one guy who likes to let his hair down and not take everything so seriously, especially someone who is the real deal and the number three mens player in the world.
The irrepressible [...]

“Meet Mark. A tall, dark, handsome Australian tennis pro. He has everything. Everything, except …

… a world ranking ever to be in double figures again. No, sorry. Wait. Everything, except someone to share it with.”
And so, sort of, begins Age of Love the dating reality show starring Our Poo [...]

Enough about tipping. It’s the ANZAC week, and that always stirs my emotions. I will spend the morning laying a wreath and then will come home to watch the Essendon-Collingwood game. It’s a day James Hird has made his own, and as it may be the last season we will ever see him play, it’s [...]

No need to mention girlies in the latest Nicholson animation.

It’s been a long, long week, and caused me to write a long, long post. Now that the dust has settled and both Selwood and Headland have emerged from the tribunal, Andrew Demetriou says sex-based sledging has to stop.
Several former players have since argued that on-field sledging about women is harmless and just a normal [...]

Idiotic boofheaded sexists like Willie Mason bring the entire game of NRL into disrepute, and make me wonder what about that game exacerbates such behaviour. But I had best remove the beam in mine own eye, and look dispassionately upon my code.
During the West Coast Eagles derby with the Fremantle Dockers on the weekend [...]

An elite level cycling mate of mine always used to say you only had so many heartbeats before you die and in participating in high performance sport you just got there sooner.
Today in the SMH today Mike Agostini writes a terrific article that puts that to the test in a number of ways.
Perhaps like tobacco, [...]

This is my sporting tool. The one I use to enjoy my pastime of cycling, something I do just about every day of the week. I love this machine, I love it when it’s finely tuned and humming along in harmony with me, it’s a genuinely beautiful feeling and the sensations are wonderful on the [...]

A long time ago Shaun gave me a log-in to contribute at Sidelined, but I have confined myself to comments box sniping. He’s probably forgotten he gave me the keys so I hope he doesn’t mind when he sees I’ve taken him up. I was moved to action by this op-ed in the [...]