Matt Renshaw, I give you Dean Jones
This, Matt Renshaw, is what it was really like in the old days.
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
'We've all been talking of those golden days, how much we miss them, and are always going to miss him'
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.
We need to let Grant heal in a very sad week for Australian sport
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.
McGregor v Mayweather: why it will be Farce of the Century II
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Floyd Mayweather v Conor McGregor!
Stop the fight! Please, stop the fight
An Green/Mundine rematch? On their heads be it.
We need to stop using a weasel word to describe sporting failures
We need to talk about the Australian sports world's word du jour: "disappointed".
Sport, a wondrous lover, cruel mistress
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.
Brutal 'sport' UFC will leave a tragic legacy
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.
The year Bernard Tomic and I traded smashes
When I met Tomic the Tank Engine
Best of Fitz Files 2016: Warnie the gift that just keeps giving
In February, TFF received a huge response to my piece, having a go at Shane Warne for his outrageous remarks about Steve Waugh being "the most selfish cricketer I've ever played with"...
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