Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by John Lingard, https://letsgohorseracing.com.au/ THE ‘Next Lap’ – a phrase coined for the future of Queensland racing – promised a new operational model that would deliver streamlined governance and broaden expertise on the Control Board. It highlighted how ‘integrity must be the foundation of the industry in Queensland’ under-pinning community confidence, protecting animal welfare […]
Grab your kids soccer ball and try this at home. I bet you don’t succeed. Diego Maradona did it against the best soccer players in the world. The man may have been El Loco, stark raving crazy. But he was El Magnifique.
Story by Sean Williams: Published October 27, 2025 Budimir Šobat had been lying face down in a swimming pool for around a quarter of an hour on March 27, 2021, when something strange happened: he fell asleep. Šobat, a 56-year-old professional freediver from Zagreb, Croatia, was aiming to break the world record for the longest […]
The champ has a name, and it’s “Gora Mermerby Escorpion!” That’s the name of the horse former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira drove to victory at a harness racing event in Argentina over the weekend, making this his second big win in two weeks. “Today I realized another great dream of mine, to win in […]
17-year-old Australian basketball phenom Sitaya Fagan has been all over the news this week after signing a scholarship deal to play college ball for the University of Southern California. https://www.basketball.com.au/news/aussies-in-the-ncaa-sitaya-fagan-joins-college-basketball-powerhouse-usc What has not been widely reported is how much the kid is being paid to play for USC. College basketball is nominally an amateur sport, […]
Only two teams this century have come from outside the top three on the final table, Brisbane Lions last year from 5th place and the Foota-scray (the Western Bulldogs) in 2016 from 7th. Based on those stats the only teams in with a serious statistical chance of winning the Grand Final are the Crows, the […]
By Mark Geenty ANALYSIS: Some cash-strapped national sporting organisations (NSOs) are in line for a funding boost as Sport New Zealand decides how to distribute a $20 million windfall from the newly-passed Racing Industry Amendment Bill. The big question is: how fairly will it be dished out, and will sporting codes who receive very little in […]
We recently expressed our opinion that the AFL had erred by allowing A-grade referee Nick Foote to continue his side hustle as a racing tipster sponsored by corporate bookmaker Sportsbet. In light of this video (at bottom) published this week on the 2Units website featuring Foot (the clean shaven one) and his business partner Dave […]
There is a continuing controversy involving AFL umpire Nick Foot’s employment by Sportsbet, with questions being asked about some of Foot’s officiating calls in the Collingwood-Bulldogs game on the weekend, and whether they were in any way influenced by his association with the bookmaker. Let us make our position on the issue clear. Nick Foot […]
You don’t have to be a genius to work out what’s happened in the Luke Sayers affair, pardon the pun. The bloke’s on holidays with his wife and kids in Italy. Someone sends a dick pic from his phone with a young female executive of one of the club’s major sponsors tagged in. 13 minutes […]
