Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
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C'mon, Hewitt must be Cup captain
Peter FitzSimons If you were in the metaphorical trenches, down to your last bullets, while the enemy had tanks and howitzers aplenty, who would you pick to be with you? It would be hard, surely, to go past Lleyton...
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Hats off to a bunch of good sports
Peter FitzSimons GENTLEMEN, a quick word before you go. Yes, you Adam Scott, Jason Day, Marc Leishman. And, uh, Senor Angel Cabrera, could we also have a word in a sec? Gracias.
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Improv cricket not in Test script
Peter FitzSimons Which one of you mongrels brought the wrong script! This is not how it's meant to go for the third Test?
Cricket
Peter FitzSimons: Bringing back the Boof, and the old days
Peter FitzSimons At a rugby lunch five years ago in Perth, a Super 12 coach was holding forth on the art of coaching by statistics, on how it was done in the modern day.
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Youthful follies not lost on Newk
Peter FitzSimons AH, the wisdom of the mature years. Here was the great John Newcombe this week, telling the Herald of the advice he has given to tennis youngsters over the years, including the Poo.
Cricket
Peter FitzSimons: Let's see those ashen faces as the Australian cricket team does them slowly
Peter FitzSimons Twenty years ago in the Federal Parliament, opposition leader John Hewson roared at prime minister Paul Keating: ''If you are so confident about your view of Fightback, why will you not call an early...
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Witty banter is OK, but threats just not cricket
Peter FitzSimons The Clarke sledging thing? So shoot me, but I don't like it. Sledging that is banter is fine, but threatening bodily violence to an opponent is well over the other side of the line.
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Mitchell Johnson brings the machismo back with a moustache worth keeping
Peter FitzSimons OH CALM down. Yes, I am the Kiss of Death, and yes, I am about to prognosticate on the Ashes, after just a day-and-a-half of play, but I just can't help myself.
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A right Royal embarrassment for Randwick's new grandstand
Peter FitzSimons Really, Royal Randwick Racecourse? In the 21st century, you're really considering naming your new grandstand the - wait for it, tree people, because you're never going to believe the cleverness of...
Sport
Concussion commissioner needed to sort out neurological mess
Peter FitzSimons Let the record show. Across the world of serious contact sports, it was in the second decade of the 21st Century that mainstream focus began to turn to the long-term deleterious effects of that heavy...
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Cheat one day and hero the next
Peter FitzSimons HERE is what I don't get. In November last year, the jockey Damien Oliver was found to have bet $10,000 on another horse in a race in which he was riding. The other horse won.
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Get off my lawn, stop making me yawn
Peter FitzSimons Gawd, I miss Shane Warne. And Campo. And even Brendan Fevola. And Wally Lewis! Of course, all of those blokes are still with us but it is not, and I mean this, the way it was. (Excuse me.
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Quade Cooper's promotion a great gamble
Peter FitzSimons QUADE Cooper as vice-captain of the Wallabies? Of course! Why didn't we think of that?
Cricket
Michael Clarke v Ricky Ponting: coming to a stage near you
Peter FitzSimons The set-up is perfect. Can't you just see it? Michael Clarke, centre stage, bidding farewell to Ricky Ponting.
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Ring's no country for old men
Peter FitzSimons THE Mundine/Mosley thing? The walkout? I'll get to that. In the meantime, let me say that among the most compelling things I have seen in recent times was when Sir Michael Parkinson came to Australia...
You wanna own a piece of that? Well, now you can
Peter FitzSimons Meanwhile? Meanwhile, in the US, there has been a fascinating development in the ongoing merger between sport and business.
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Wanna own a piece of that? Now you can
Peter FitzSimons Meanwhile? Meanwhile, in the US, there has been a fascinating development in the ongoing merger between sport and business.
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Of burning shoes and buddy systems
Peter FitzSimons Back in the day, when TFF lived in Ohio for a year, the keenest sporting rivalry around was between the football teams of Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.
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Why, oh why, does Gen Y not get it?
Peter FitzSimons Lucas Neill might be right. After losing to Brazil and France in straight sets, 6-0, 6-0, the Socceroos captain was quick to point out the root cause of the problem. Generation Y!
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Chilling insight into head knocks
Peter FitzSimons The stunning documentary, League of Denial, about the NFL's outrageous and perhaps criminal obstruction of those seeking to warn of the dangers of repeated concussion and its established link to the...
