By Ian McCullough
December 26th 2009 @ 12:25am
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Newcombe not convinced by Tomic
Australian tennis great John Newcombe believes 2010 could make or break the burgeoning career of Bernard Tomic.
Tomic is widely considered the most likely successor to Lleyton Hewitt as Australia’s next world class player, but Newcombe has reservations about whether the young Queenslander has what it takes to reach the top.
“I think he’s got a long [...]
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Rarely has the dust settled on any major game before people are touting its success or failure on its audience numbers, [...] Steve Kaless: The Code War will get more precise in 2010](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/tipping-finalists-super-14-tatafu-polota-nau-th.jpg)
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The finals defeats to St Kilda and Geelong and the Round 22 loss to [...] Ben Somerford: Can Collingwood go one step further in 2010?](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/st-kilda-geelong-audience-th.jpg)
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Sporting success by Aussie athletes competing overseas is taken for granted in this country.
But Bayliss deserves to be considered amongst the great Australian sporting exports.
In [...] Adrian Musolino: Bayliss one of Australia’s great sporting exports](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/troy-bayliss-th.jpg)
![Once again, the Champions League is dominated by English teams. This is all very surprising because by and large English sporting teams stink. They hardly ever have consistent sporting success.
Maybe it’s due to the scarcity of English players in the actual sides. Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United only had eight English players between [...] David Wiseman: Rename the EPL the Global Premier League](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rename-epl-gpl-patrice-evra-th.jpg)
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![After two weeks of the ANZ Championship, two Australian teams – Melbourne Vixens and the Adelaide Thunderbirds, as well as the New Zealand’s Waikato Magic – remain undefeated and the competition so far has not been disappointing.
The first two rounds have given new and long time spectators a glimpse of the the skills and [...] Natalie Medhurst: Umpires are putting the biff into netball](http://www.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/catherine-cox-forget-hype-th.jpg)
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