Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Brett Holman was a brilliant soccer player (footballer) who played in the Dutch and English Premier Leagues, and earned 63 caps for the Socceroos, including the 2010 World Cup where he scored two goals against the best defenders in the world. At the tail end of his career he came back to Australia and signed […]
Tim Paine is a terrible husband, an unsuitable captain of Australia, and an absolute bloody idiot. Why blokes get married if they don’t want to be is totally beyond me. It’s not as if it is compulsory or anything. It is what it is though, and the whole country feels for his wife and kids. […]
Rugby Union in Australia has always been run by conservatives, private school tory boys turned men whose most fervent desire is to cling on to a fast and ever-fading past. Modern day men in suits and ties who dream at night of being first year fags in Tom Brown’s Schooldays stories. Its why Rugby is […]
History Fagging originated as a structure for maintaining order in boarding schools, when schoolmasters’ authority was practically limited to the classroom. Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby from 1828 to 1841, defined fagging as the power given by the authorities of the school to the Sixth Form, to be exercised by them over younger boys.[1] Fagging was a fully established […]
De Kock has never bent the knee to the BLM to advertise he’s not racist, as many sportsmen now do out of conviction – or fear. He never explained why he remained standing while teammates knelt, and shouldn’t have to in a free world. “No one’s forced to do anything, not in life,” he once said. […]
Isn’t the basketballer Ben Simmons a disgrace? A petulant, spoiled, oversized kid and brat who has lived so much of his short adult life in a bubble of sporting adulation that he has come to actually believe somehow that he is Michael Jordan and should be feted as a great one just like the man […]
Tom Raudonikis left us for the great Cambelltown Oval in the sky 6 months ago. Someone must have forgotten to tell Racing Australia about Tommy Terrific’s passing. The great man is still this morning listed at the owner of Fisticuffs. Oh well. I guess he does own the biff in perpetuity.
They are strange beasts these professional sports people. Leon Spinks beats Muhammed Ali in the upset of the century and has the world and hundreds of millions of dollars in prize purses at his feet. He hits the cocaine, stops training, loses the rematch, then loses it all. Prior to his death earlier this year […]
Liz Cambage and Hall of Fame Opals guard Sandie Brondello, who stands 5 ft 7. Inside the paint basketball is a game about size. The Opals don’t have any. It doesn’t look like they will anytime soon either. We told you at the time exactly what had happened in the closed door practice session against […]
BY now you have probably heard the Shane Lewis story, or one of the terrible bit of it anyway. Former Olympic swimmer. Abused by a Swimming Australia funded elite performance coach. Told the peak body of the sport. They did nothing. Killed himself. Young kids left without a dad. It is tragic but all too […]
