Smith's century was Shakespeare on steroids
The exemplar of the virtues of Test cricket.
The Fitz Files
The Australian team that must be cut from Super Rugby
In the beginning there was rugby, and it was good and it was great.
A fitting farewell for Daniel Vickerman
Ten years ago, TFF attended the funeral of the Wallaby great Trevor Allan, and was moved by a small episode that occurred when the moment came to carry his casket into the chapel of Northern Suburbs Crematorium.
NRL walking through a concussion minefield
Look, I'm actually not quite a failed law student. It's just that when I applied, at the end of 1981 to go to Sydney University's prestigious Law School on Philip St, the answer that came back from the Dean was that mine was one of the funniest applications he'd ever seen. And not in a good way . . .
The playing field is subject to the laws of the game ... and the land
Your Honour, in the matter before the court of James McManus v the Newcastle Knights, I seek to approach the bench.
Matt Renshaw, I give you Dean Jones
This, Matt Renshaw, is what it was really like in the old days.
'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".
My locker room confession
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.
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
McKinnon has every right to sue
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.
Walk with me into the minefield of women's sport and pregnancy
Minefield, anyone?
Listen fatso, get off the couch and back on the field
Bring it in tight you fat bastards.
Reaction to Smith catch proves cultural cringe is alive and well
This is the last bastion of the cultural cringe.
Here's to more sporting fairytales in 2017
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?