Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
No. And again I say NO. Wild tickles couldn't make Greg Norman tell of just how instrumental he was in putting Malcolm Turnbull in touch with Donald Trump after the latter's election victory – and it is not even fair to ask my client that question.
The Australian cricket team did what?
The question is being posed with a little more force in the wake of the team losing the last four Test matches in a row.
Is it any of the NRL's business if Ben Barba takes cocaine?
"The TV business," Hunter S Thompson once famously wrote, "is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs ..."
Mark Taylor, Dean Jones and yes, even Shane Warne, are right.
I ask again to those who wish to support/watch/pay for this grotesque charade. Do you really want it on your conscience?
In the words of Billy Birmingham, "I am sorry, I am going to have to go with me, on this one."
The Nick Kyrgios thing? The outrageous tanking at the Shanghai Open? It was good, at least, that the Sportsbet mob - did I mention that everyone loses sooner or later, so don't waste your readies? - refunded everyone's money on the match in question, and the quote from them was amusing.
There has been a great deal of bitter criticism this week at the very idea of a coronial inquest into the tragic death of Phillip Hughes at the SCG two years ago.
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