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Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.

Tomic v FitzSimons

'Why do you write all that s--t about me?': Tomic

Yes, I had seen the yellow Ferrari outside the Palazzao Versace hotel last Saturday arvo, but still, nothing twigged, and I had no clue that it was the first crack of lightning on the horizon for what looked like a mid-level storm approaching.

Trouble on and off the field: Anthony Watmough, Kieran Foran and Semi Radradra.

Eels need cleanout from top to bottom

Tell me. In the history of the world, has any football team ever, begun the season with such high hopes only for so many things go to hell in a hand-cart that soon need a freaking convoy of hand-carts to carry them all?

Trauma: Muhammad Ali on the end of a punch from Sonny Liston during his career-making win in 1964.

Boxing has a case to answer over Ali's death

I loved Ali. His legacy is multi-faceted. So can it be any bad thing that, upon his tragic death, another part of that legacy is for there to be wider recognition that if even one as beautiful, charismatic, courageous and fiercely smart as him can be brought down by getting hit in the head too often, then no one is safe if they ignore the dangers of concussion?