Gorden Tallis was a terrific rugby league player. His charges into opponents, with and without the ball, made you recoil even though you were watching on the television screen. He was handy with his fists, too.
A round of applause, please, for England coach Fabio Capello. It took Capello 12 minutes to sit John Terry down and justifiably strip the Chelsea centre-back of the captaincy of his country – a captaincy he should never have had in the first place.
Former bowling great Wasim Akram Monday called for positive steps in Pakistan cricket following its humiliating defeats in Australia, saying the team needed a strong approach to progress.
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is to miss the first three rounds of the Super 14 competition on a “sabbatical”.
The smallest crowd ever for an Australian limited overs match at Adelaide Oval witnessed the home side maul the West Indies by eight wickets on Tuesday night.
Former Socceroos coach Graham Arnold will take over the helm of the Central Coast Mariners with current coach Lawrie McKinna moving into a new off-field role at the A-League club.
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He may be one of the brainchilds of the hugely successful Indigenous All Stars concept but Gold Coast Titans boss Michael Searle says he never wants to see an indigenous rugby league team play a Test or the World Cup.
Melbourne Victory striker Nik Mrdja can see the lighter side of the bitter controversy that has erupted over his A-League transfer.
He’s back. Following months of uncertainty, Willie Mason officially announced his NRL return at Townsville on Tuesday after accepting a lifeline from North Queensland.
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Western Force utility back Mark Bartholomeusz is confident he has what it takes to make the five-eighth position his own, starting with Friday night’s Super 14 blockbuster against the Brumbies in Perth.
Victorian cricket has reacted cautiously to reports it is set to join a new worldwide Twenty20 competition. The concept, announced by Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne, would also include English county side Hampshire, South Africa’s Cape Cobras and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Rugby is going through a rebuilding process, after experimentation with laws and interpretations, as well as disastrous sentiment from the public.
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I have my own theory on why the crowds stayed away from the ODI cricket match at the MCG the other night. And the nation’s new infatuation with Twenty20 bash and barge is only part of the story.
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I’ve been wondering lately, who gives us what we, the fans, want – ‘us’ or ‘them’? ‘Them’, or ‘they’, are shadowing creatures who are difficult to pin down. They can be so-called ‘experts’. “Experts say this, or that”. But what qualifies an expert?
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2009 saw the NRL’s marketing department make some very poor choices. When selecting the faces of their advertising campaign, they determined that the masses would be best moved by the pure talent of young starlets Brett Stewart and Greg Inglis to bring a stadium to its feet with freakish football.
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With the All Stars game nearly upon us, and the World Club Challenge only weeks away, the question must be asked whether the timing is right.
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After reading numerous articles regarding the Olympic Inclusion of Sevens, and recently watching parts of the NZI Sevens series, I began to wonder whether it would be possible to implement a “Sevens Rugby” style into the fifteen man game.
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Every Rugby World Cup winning rugby team has a world-class general playing at 10. In the past, the Wallabies have been blessed with Michael Lynagh and, of course, Stephen Larkham.
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Rumours of Tiger Woods’ return to golf are rampant as the 2010 PGA Tour is now well underway. His usual opening tournament has come and gone, but the biggest event for the year is just a few weeks away, the Accenture World Matchplay Championship.
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The opening round of season 2009 saw the St George Illawarra Dragons faced with the uneviable task of playing the Melbourne Storm at Olympic Park – a match which saw the Red V display the credentials necessary that would see it lift the Minor Premiership 26 weeks later.
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In two years, with the introduction of Gold Coast and Western Sydney, the AFL will have two teams in every mainland state. It is likely that it will be the only code to achieve this in the next five or ten years.
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Watching the Six Nations games on the weekend got me thinking: what if the best of the Six Nations combined to form a Northern XV to play a Southern XV made of players from the Tri-Nations in a one-off end-of-year match at Twickenham?
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Do the British have sole proprietary rights to “playing the game?” The recent England-South Africa Test Series witnessed the English players ‘playing with the ball’, albeit “abstractedly”.
Loading ...I have put together a short poem that looks at our obsession with sport stars as opposed to some of the ground breaking scientists over the ages – beginning in ancient Greece with Milo and Pythagoras (nothing has changed much in the last 3000 years).
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The recent revelation about Geelong playmaker Matthew Stokes’ alleged involvement in supplying cocaine, highlights yet another problem with the AFL’s drug policy and the ‘three strikes and you are out’ system.
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While I was critical of NRL’s champion halfback Jonathan Thurston being a success at the highest level in rugby union, there was never any doubts with Mark Gasnier.
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I am unaware if a system such as this has been discussed on The Roar but I propose a system of suspension for cheating players rather than simply penalising them for repeat infringements.
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If Karl Marx, the communist ideologue and the father of modern communism, were more open-minded and observant, he would have described sport (particularly soccer) as the opium of the masses.
