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!
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
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!
No captain off field in Cricket Australia's pay dispute
Of all the cricketers, it is Smith's view that will carry most weight.
Bernard Tomic, it's time for you to stand down
Mate, it's time for you to stand down. Take a year off. Get totally away from tennis. Find yourself.
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.
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