Columnist About
Adrian Musolino is editor of V8X Magazine, and has written as an expert on The Roar since 2008, cementing himself as a writer who can see the big picture in sport. He freelances on other forms of motorsport, football, cycling and more.
- Member Since:
- July 2008
- Favourite Sports:
- AFL, Cycling, Football, Motor,
Latest Articles
A tale of two clubs: Western Sydney versus Central Coast
20 Apr 2013The two benchmark clubs of the 2012/13 A-League season, who face off in the grand final, Western Sydney Wanderers and Central Coast Mariners, are polar opposites in the A-League spectrum. On the one hand you have the Wanderers, the first season sensations that a year ago was hurriedly created in the desperate attempt to replace [...]
Codes to blame for fostering sport's seedy underbelly
8 Feb 2013The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) has finally blown the lid on the seedy underbelly of Australian sport that leading codes have been fostering for far too long. The ACC report details how Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs), namely peptides and hormones, are widespread in a number of professional sporting codes, facilitated by sports scientists, [...]
Cycling: A sport in crisis or on the mend?
6 Feb 2013The cycling fraternity will be looking on doping and match-fixing scandals in other sports with a sense of relief. Not only has it taken the spotlight away from the fallout of Lance Armstrong’s doping confessions, it proves cycling isn’t alone in having a darker side that corrupts the sporting contest. Doping may have tarnished a [...]
A-League fans, don’t give the media an excuse
5 Feb 2013It’s as inevitable as the sun rising in the morning; the mainstream media jumping on fan indiscretions at A-League matches and running the now customary soccer fan thuggery stories. Those headlines appeared in the usual media outlets – Herald Sun, 3AW, etc – following the Melbourne derby in which 170 seats were wrecked by Melbourne [...]
Australian sporting pie can’t sustain itself
17 Jan 2013Are we seeing the first real signs the Australian sporting landscape is being forced to contract under market pressures, in another example that the ‘fringe codes’ are falling further behind the big boys, the AFL and NRL? V8 Supercars signed off on its new free-to-air television deal with just 47 days remaining before the 2013 [...]
Free-to-air coverage vital for A-League’s future
20 Nov 2012Since the announcement of Football Federation Australia’s four-year, $160 million media rights deal with current host Fox Sports and SBS, the debate that has kicked into life is which is more important, the value or the new partner? The value, $40 million per season, for some is disappointing as it falls short of expectations and [...]
THE ROAR ON