sidelined

Wassup with that? Smoke? Fire? A trigger for early retirement? A consequence of a night out drinking beer? Or pawn in a political fight involving doping agencies and sporting Orgs, some overzealous and others not zealous enough?
Either way, it’s been interesting to observe all Australian, political, media and sporting classes circle the wagons in [...]

A nice piece in today’s Age by Waleed Aly.
By playing sport we inevitably corrupt it. Like the rest of life.
And what a contaminated soul it presently appears. Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has just been murdered after his team’s diabolical World Cup loss to Ireland. Precisely why is uncertain, but most suspect a connection with [...]

I don’t get League, but I get Souths. It’s because I like history I guess. They are a battlers’ team from a battlers’ area. They wear their colours because they used to get blood all over their green shirts because they had to flog rabbits before the games. They once were mighty - in fact [...]

There was an interesting bit of conjecture posed by David Horton in the Huffington Post about national/international sport having a very dim future due to the twin problems of peak oil and climate change.
I reckon, in the next few years, as a result of caps on emissions and peak oil being reached, that we can [...]