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Why all of Australia must own the ball-tampering scandal
Australia demands decency from our cricketers, and fair enough. But we have to show decency in return.
Australia demands decency from our cricketers, and fair enough. But we have to show decency in return.
The new ARL Commission chair risks being defined by his failure to answer Phil Gould's simple question about Cronulla - here are my tips for his survival
As sports stinks go, they don't come much more fascinating than LeBron James and Laura Ingraham.
The Winter Olympics! Can't you just feel the buzz, the hype, the glory of it? Don't you just know that we'll talking about the things we've seen for years to come?
It is time for your humble correspondent to focus not on the sport of the moment, but have a quick look at the sport to come, with, yes, fearless predictions.
After all our ranting and raving over stadiums, it appears that Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be answering at least some of the public's concerns.
None of this adds up. The government is coming up with reasons that were not sighted just two short years ago.
Ben Simmons. Have you ever seen a more mesmerising Australian sportsman on the world stage in just his first year?
I hope Tomic gets the help that will come simply from getting the hell away from tennis for a while.
Wonderful, that both Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Shane Gould were named in the Australia Day Honours List yesterday.
It was one of the great moments in Australian sport.
We see good sportspeople go bad, because they just don't give a f--- about the things they should, and good sports people become great because they only give a f--- about the things that actually count.
It is more important than ever for those of us in the business of #realnews to make sure our assertions are based on solid facts.
Excuse me, while I exult once more. I mean, just how extraordinary is the culture of golf?
Goodness! There I was, minding my own business at home, on Thursday evening, when I checked in on the SMH website.
Good luck to Castle
The reaction of Premier Gladys Berejiklian to the stadium protests quite stuns me.
Now, where was I before I was interrupted?
No joke, in 30 years in this game, I've never had a reaction like it.
Twenty-odd years ago in this space, I wrote: "Sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our time." My basic idea was that whereas cities around the world would measure their glory by the grandeur of their cathedrals, the real steeple people now are those who build sporting cathedrals. I was wrong.