Fitz Files: World Cup defections better than farce of pretend teams
Anything that makes other teams turning up the World Cup genuinely competitive, has to be good for the "World Cup"!
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The Fitz Files' 2017 NRL season awards
What will we remember of 2017 when it comes to rugby league? I thought you'd never ask ...
The pleasure of honouring Goodes for his rare moral courage
Rugby league. It lives and breathes in country NSW!
Medals and mettle: Smith and 'Dusty' in a league of their own
There are many things I love about sport but the range of characters it produces, embraces, and celebrates is right up there.
Head clash: Oates' concussion test is not worth a pinch
If a boxer had been knocked cold like Corey Oates was, what chance he would be allowed in the ring just a week later?
The ways in which sportspeople do and do not give a f---
We see good sportspeople go bad, and become great because of whether or not they give a f---.
Israel Folau tweets 'no' but I must disagree
Good on him for expressing his views, but I can't resist.
Moaning coaches are the most boring thing in sport
Coaches complaining about referees has become the most tedious aspect of sport.
Fitz Files: It's a big risk, but bravo to Ange for his spirit of adventure
Of course TFF took a bit of flak – like I care – for asking Socceroo coach Ange Postecoglou on Channel Nine last Sunday morning, if he would stand down in the event of his team not qualifying for the World Cup. Some thought it disrespectful. I thought it journalism.
What rugby needs right now is unity, not an un-civil war
These last weeks have given us some positive signs that a brighter future for our beloved code beckons. But not without changes.
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.
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.