Fitz Files: You beauties! Wallabies lose but win back respect
You wonderful Wallabies. You bloody beauties. No, you didn't beat the All Blacks last Saturday night in Dunedin, but your performance was a triumph regardless.
The Fitz Files
Is rugby dead? Depends on which rugby you're talking about
Who said rugby is dying? Actually, I think it might have been me.
I don't want to talk about the Wallabies
But allow me to at least say this.
Australian thighs: AC/DC a winner for those about to work out
But enough about the Storm, the tour to Bangladesh, the Wallabies, the retirement of Usain Bolt. Can we bring it back to me, for a change, and my life?
Rethink needed on junior club's opposition to Marc's case
TFF received an enormous response to my piece on Thursday about young Marc Reichler-Stillhard.
Let him play: Marc's story is all that's good with kids' sport, until now
This is the story of a fine young fellow born with Down syndrome and immediately embraced by the local community.
When Raelene Boyle made Betty Cuthbert cry
It was one of the great moments in Australian sport. You see, when Raelene Boyle won gold in her last race, at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982 – roaring home in the 400 Metres – the stadium roared even as the nation came to a standstill.
What former Wallabies captains show us about Hooper
Here are the characteristics of captains that I know were instrumental in their own success.
Time to pull our heads out of the water bucket
How old am I? I am so old, soooooo old, I remember when Australian swimmers only had to dip a toe in chlorinated water and they started growing gold medals on their chest!
Daley and the good bloke syndrome
Could you break the news to Laurie Daley that you were giving him the bullet? I couldn't.
Eddie McGuire is the chair at Collingwood for the long haul
This is a bloke to whom leadership comes easily. Eddie Mcguire won't leave Collingwood for a long while yet.
Calculated risk is fine – but the NRL needs to do the maths
The implications for rugby league after episodes like Slater's are obvious.
Abs-normal behaviour for tall poppy Norman
You bloody narks! You've been sniggering most unpleasantly about Greg Norman posting photos of his naked self on social media, showing off his 62 year old abs, and you've been sneering that he is a man who'd make Narcissus blush!
Dugan and Ferguson have skills, but not character, for Origin
Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson, you say, got on the squirt? Well, knock me over with a feather!
Grim as it gets for Blues and Waratahs
In the history of rugby league and rugby union in NSW, have things ever been as grim as right now?
No captain off field in Cricket Australia's pay dispute
Of all the cricketers, it is Smith's view that will carry most weight.
How long will blood sport continue?
You will recall, you older ones, the days when we used to smoke in the office and when planes even had the absurdity of smoking and non-smoking sections.
Only one hope for Wallabies against All Blacks
Yup, the very nature of Twitter is that it is short and to the point, but even by those standards, the tweet from the Maitland Mumbler last Saturday afternoon was . . . pointed.
Origin game sets up cracker for the ages
Snide warnings aside, the narrative of this State of Origin series will likely be talked of for years.
Fool me twice using taxpayers' money?
Fool me both times using taxpayers' money and I reckon you have a political embarrassment in the making.