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?
The Fitz Files
For money or glory? The question Tedesco must answer
There was an interesting juxtaposition this week in Australian sport.
Want more Ellas? Then change these rugby rules
Rugby union needs to change the rules to revitalise the game.
All Blacks IVF plan for world rugby domination
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 man who has stood beside Ben Cousins
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
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.