Is greyhound racing going to the dogs?
Greg Baum Decades ago, a mate coaxed me into joint ownership of two racing greyhounds. Their breeding and talent was on a par with our budget, but for a while we had fun toddling around Victorian country...
Hawthorn and Roger Federer: two eras with no end
Greg Baum Either Roger Federer is the Hawthorn of tennis, or the Hawks are the Federer of the AFL. As in a quinella, either way round wins.
Nick Kyrgios: What's love got to do with it anyway?
Greg Baum If you are reading this, possibly it means you love sport more than some of your favourite sportspeople do. If your sport is tennis, almost certainly you love it more than Nick Kyrgios does.
England and the lose canon
Greg Baum Everyone loves a winner. But what we love even more is a loser, if it is the right loser. There can have been few more ideal losers than England when they crashed against lowly Iceland in the...
Sport: Where reality and make-believe cross paths
Greg Baum One of the best sports movies ever made is Bull Durham, a riff on the machinations of a minor league baseball club, starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon.
Brendon McCullum and the getting of Wisden
Greg Baum When news arrived in Sharjah of the tragic and ultimately fatal blow suffered by Phil Hughes that day in 2014, no-one in the New Zealand cricket team had the stomach to go on with the Test match they...
Muhammad Ali: who would deny 'the greatest' his immortality?
Greg Baum In death, Ali's achievements, in and out of the boxing ring, remain undimmed.
Cricket Australia Dukes ball plan foiled because ball behaves differently in Australia
Greg Baum Australia's plan to use English cricket balls in the Sheffield Shield next season is in doubt because – like so many English imports to Australia – they behave differently here.
Sheffield Shield no ticket to honours for Victorians
Greg Baum The Sheffield Shield and the Australian Test team have become like third cousins, twice removed. You know they're related, but it's hard to remember how.
Good guys who finish first
Greg Baum This has been a good spell for two of sport's axiomatic non-winners, good guys and losers.
Baggy green stays in Australian hands
Greg Baum By a narrow squeak, the iconic baggy green cap will continue to be made in Australia after a buyer emerged this week to save troubled manufacturer Albion.
Vale Tony Cozier, the voice of West Indian cricket
Greg Baum One of cricket's most distinguished and distinct voices is now forever quiet.
The Phillip Hughes review: More protection, no guarantees
Greg Baum David Curtain's prescription is so thorough that he recommends even for nets bowling machine operators to wear helmets henceforth.
Leicester City's Premier League win much more than a miracle
Greg Baum To call Leicester City's feat a miracle is to undersell it. A miracle is an instantaneous things, achieving in a blinding, transforming, water-into-wine flash what would not be possible even with...
Hillsborough and the way we were
Greg Baum There were 112,838 people at MCG for the 1970 second semi-final.
Adam Scott: traitor with a two-iron
Greg Baum Poor Adam Scott. He surely cannot know the curse he has called down upon himself by turning his back on the Olympics.
Jordan Spieth at the Masters: Hiccup or choke?
Greg Baum In making a quadruple bogey at the 12th at Augusta last Sunday, did Jordan Spieth choke, or was it as he said, that he put a couple of bad swings on the ball at the wrong time? Is there a difference?
Saggy green? Not us, says cap maker
Greg Baum The long-term maker of the iconic baggy green cap has moved to reassure Cricket Australia that the company was viable in the face of reports that the company is under stress.
The rebirth of calypso: West Indies turn the world upside down
Greg Baum They were four balls that shook an already shaken-up cricket world. When Carlos Brathwaite was done, and had floated back to earth, the West Indies were world T20 champions for the second time, and...
Victoria v South Australia: The shielded final
Greg Baum You'd be excused for not having noticed, but Victoria this week won their second Sheffield Shield in a row and their 30th all up.
