Chicago Cubs, Greg Norman and now NSW
July is the hardest month for NSW Blues fans. You spend most of it searching in vain for reasons you were so optimistic back in May. Those reasons will come back to you, but not until May next year.
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Malcolm Knox
The identikit fit for the perfect captain
What is the formula for elite sporting success? A new book claims to have the answer.
Pearce, Hayne...there's always someone to blame
'Did Jarryd Hayne lose us the Origin series?' This was the first call I received on Thursday morning. No preamble, no commiserations, straight into it. The very first call.
Maroons teach Blues harsh lesson in how to close out a game
For the student of rugby league, the game's appeal lies in how it embraces the whole curriculum: physics, psychology, history, and ultimately, and miserably if you are from New South Wales, mathematics.
Men of substance make their mark
This promised to be a strange hole-in-the-doughnut kind of Origin, more noteworthy for absences than the thing in itself.
Why Blues assistant Donaldson is a breath of fresh air
Mark Donaldson might be the smallest man on the team, but he is there because the footballers, hearing his stories, look up to him as to a giant.
Another flogging looms in Origin's sado-masochistic arena
And so to rugby league's festival of sado-masochism. The sado- for Queensland, the masochism for NSW.
Rugby league's problem is not drugs but hypocrisy
After a rep weekend that was a triple feature of Boogie Nights and Blow, it's time to be honest about cocaine's problem as it pertains to rugby league.
Why I'm uncomfortable with Easter sport extravaganza
Even if you are not religious in any way, questions must be asked about business-as-usual on the last sports-free days of the year.
Why Hasler is no April Fool
A week is a long time in rugby league, but under the laws of the game, five days is even longer.
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