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- June 2012
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Latest Articles
What if Steven Dank and Essendon are the tip of the iceberg?
7 Feb 2013The Essendon supplement saga has rocked the club and the AFL itself. It should make all professional sporting bodies nervous. If the reports of supplements containing banned substances are confirmed, many questions must be asked. How, in this day and age, where athletes are apparently tested at random for traces of literally thousands of drugs? [...]
Is Jerry Jones the new Al Davis?
9 Nov 2012Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is in real danger of becoming the NFL’s next Al Davis, and I’m not talking about the visionary and celebrated version of Davis from the 1960s and 1970s. I’m talking about the latter years of Davis’s strangle hold of the Oakland Raiders franchise where they went from being in a [...]
NRL needs to say au revoir to Bill Harrigan
3 Oct 2012The 2012 NRL season has come to an end with the Melbourne Storm becoming premiers. Unfortunately for the Storm, the 2012 season will not only be remembered for their feats on the field. It will instead be remembered as one of the worst refereed seasons in living memory. But before you stop reading and dismiss [...]
Throw out the NFL Form Guide
27 Sep 2012Did we all miss the memo about form and talent being thrown so far out the window it is now a distant memory? The number of upsets this week is hard enough to swallow for any NFL tipster, but the list of former contenders for the Lombardi trophy becoming pretenders is growing quickly. Once upon [...]
Time to consolidate for the NRL
31 Aug 2012The new television rights deal announced by the ARLC last week has drawn heavy criticism from some. Even though the Commission succeeded in acquiring the promised billion-dollar agreement, the details of the deal have left many with a bitter taste in their mouths. It is very much a “same old, same old” situation with Channel [...]
NRL politics overshadows approaching finals
17 Aug 2012With three weeks to go until the NRL finals series gets under way, you would think that the focus would be on said finals series. Alas, it is not. If the new ARL Commission didn’t have enough problems including finding a new CEO, the small matter of finalising a new television rights deal and the [...]
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