sidelined

I don’t know much about Candice Falzon apart from what has appeared in the press especially regrading the infamous incident with Sonny Bill Williams last year (Google will turn up more than enough stories on this). But on Australian Story last night, the picture of Candice was far from the man-hunting, floozy that some sections [...]

The first Australian football team to make it to a World Cup quarter finals takes on Brazil in just under half an hour. I haven’t been following the Matildas closely, but from what I saw in the Ghana match and the highlights of Canada game they could teach Sydney FC a few A-League teams a [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Herald’s front page has a beautiful story about our seven-time surfing world champion, Layne Beachley. It’s about how she decided, a few years back, that she was not going to surf for the sake of titles. She would brush off the nastiness of her rivals and instead be friendly, happy and constantly improve herself [...]