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Mundine vs Geale: Is this fight a sham?
25 Jan 2013The publicity machine surrounding the Anthony Mundine-Daniel Geale fight is going into overdrive, but is this all a smokescreen? Are Aussie boxing fans being taken for a ride again? Anthony Mundine’s fraud over local fight fans is well known. Main Event, at the behest of promoters, charges pubs in this country more to broadcast a [...]
American government combats online gambling
23 Jul 2011“Is poker a sport?” is a much-argued question and one that, for the sake of this story, I will answer in the affirmative (although many will disagree). We have recently had several stories regarding the evils of online gambling and it is hard not to agree with those that say it is dragging sport down [...]
Are we sanitising our game into extinction?
15 May 2011A few years ago, the AFL banned the “coathanger” and the “driving tackle”. Similarly, the NRL banned the “stiff arm” and the “spear tackle”. These were good decisions, as no one wants to see players become paraplegics or get badly injured, but how many other rules have been changed with very little, if any, real [...]
What should be on the AFL channel?
13 May 2011I presume that sooner or later this year, Foxtel will get around to asking their subscribers what they would like to see on the new channel. Or maybe I’m kidding myself and they won’t bother. I would like to see a lot more replays of the previous rounds’ games. As it stands now, there is [...]
AFL umpires ruling from a twilight zone
10 Apr 2011Over the past few weeks there have been some strange umpiring decisions which might make us wonder if we haven’t moved to a parallel universe. Last week we saw a player on top of another who had the ball and no free was given. The reason given by the umpire? “You have to lay a [...]
What a difference a year (or two) makes
8 Apr 2011I was unfortunate enough to watch the Gold Coast Suns get hammered on Saturday night. A couple of things stood out for me: the Suns were hopelessly outclassed, they used far too much handballs, and Robert Walls does not like Jared Brennan. As it turns out, Fox Sports replayed the 2007 classic between Brisbane and [...]
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