The man who has stood beside Ben Cousins

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The report over the radio said it all: "When the verdict was read out, Ben Cousins looked to his father in the gallery . . ."

Criticism of Roche for challenging Coates is un-Australian

I know nothing of the Olympic gold medallist and accomplished stockbroker Danni Roche, who is challenging John Coates for the presidency of the Australian Olympic Committee, and have no skin in the game.

Smith's century was Shakespeare on steroids

The exemplar of the virtues of Test cricket.

The Australian team that must be cut from Super Rugby

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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'

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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.