Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
The fact of Donald Trump suggests we have peaked as species and are on the decline. None the less, wherever we are in 100 years, historians will look back at the last week and scratch the unprotected part of their heads in wonder.
Never let it be said that Bernard Tomic is not a success.
Priorities emerge after the latest twist in the ever more vexed and vexatious cricket pay war.
Cricket in Australia is not so strong that it can take much more of this dogfight. Its long-assumed and assured title as the national game is wobbly.
In Cricket Australia versus the players, it is as if they have had a toss, and both decided to bat, and both are out there now, one at each end, tapping their bats on the creases, chins jutting, waiting for a ball that will never come. Both know there needs to be a bowler, but are damned if it will be them.
It is injury time in Arena Conda in Chapeco seven months ago and the goal that would surely break this Brazilian provincial town's heart is about crash into the net when goalkeeper Danilo somehow gets his outflung right foot in the way. Chapocoense, which as recently as 2009 was in the lowest division in Brazil, is through to the final of the prestigious Cope Sudamericana. As they celebrate ebulliently and deep into the night, they drink many toasts to Danilo and his miracle save.
The Saudis were in our country and that makes what they did grossly disrespectful.
I have seen the future of sport, and it glows in the dark and crackles a bit.
Finally, a path to detente has opened up in Australia's cricket war, albeit narrow and fraught.
Former prime minister John Howard has called for "common sense" to prevail in cricket's pay fight on a day Australia's top players drafted in a hardline unionist to help their cause.
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