There will come a time, when the late Daniel Vickerman's sons, Joseph, 7, and young Xavier, 3, will actively wonder just what kind of man their father was, and how he was regarded by the rugby community for whom he stood as a colossus in the engine-room for over a decade. I humbly hope this article might help.
Not in my memory have we seen such a beloved figure as Grant Hackett – so synonymous throughout his career with physical, moral and mental strength – to have so lost as his way as we have seen this week.
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor!
An Green/Mundine rematch? On their heads be it.
We need to talk about the Australian sports world's word du jour: "disappointed".
I call bullshit. I refer to Donald Trump's defence, after his unwitting confession to committing sexual assault aired. You know the confession I mean.
Yes, yes, yes ... we all know that sport can be a wondrous lover, keeping you warm on cold nights, thrilling you to the very cockles of your soul, and romancing you on lazy summer days.
Sadly, by the by, on Thursday evening, just after the news on James Hird's hospitalisation after a suspected drug overdose, I came across this from 2007.
When I met Tomic the Tank Engine
The news broke Monday morning. The former Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon, who has been left in a wheelchair for life because of an illegal tackle on him in 2014 – in a match against the Storm – has reportedly launched legal proceedings against the NRL and the player, Jordan McLean, who was tackler.
Minefield, anyone?
Bring it in tight you fat bastards.
This is the last bastion of the cultural cringe.
This was the year of thunder and wonder, the year of the fairytale for all those teams more associated with chunder and blunder. Which leaves us hoping for what in 2017?
Told yers! I refer to the comments by the famous rugby league coach Chris Anderson this week: "Our biggest danger is rugby union ... It's a big world sport. It's taken over Europe. Rugby league has died in Europe. All good players now go to union; in England, in France. So it's a big game. It's growing in America. That's our danger. If we don't get our house in order, our danger is we'll be playing rugby union in 10 years."
Bring it in tight, you bastards and listen.
TFF has long maintained that in terms of wasted tennis talent, the only one who approaches Kyrgios was Mark Philippoussis who had the complete game, but, after bursting onto the tour in the mid-1990s, never quite got there, because his work ethic never matched his colossal talent.
I think of Justice Marcus Einfeld every time I drive past a particular speed camera on the back road to the Spit Bridge.
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?
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