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Golf once again sets an example for the rest
Excuse me, while I exult once more. I mean, just how extraordinary is the culture of golf?
Excuse me, while I exult once more. I mean, just how extraordinary is the culture of golf?
There was an interesting juxtaposition this week in Australian sport.
Rugby union needs to change the rules to revitalise the game.
Listen, I get that New Zealand takes their rugby seriously, and world rugby is all the better for that. But do you think, sometimes, they might be taking it a bit too seriously?
The report over the radio said it all: "When the verdict was read out, Ben Cousins looked to his father in the gallery . . ."
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.
The exemplar of the virtues of Test cricket.
In the beginning there was rugby, and it was good and it was great.
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.
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 . . .
Your Honour, in the matter before the court of James McManus v the Newcastle Knights, I seek to approach the bench.
This, Matt Renshaw, is what it was really like in the old days.
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.
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