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- August 2011
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Latest Articles
Put your house on the Heat
29 Apr 2013If you didn’t put your house on the Miami Heat for a title in the past months, you can today. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook has been hobbled by a meniscus tear in his knee. The Thunder and the NBA have been robbed of one of the best players in the world right now. [...]
Removing the shriek from women's tennis
22 Jan 2013The ridiculous screaming from the mouths of players like Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka must be removed from the game of tennis. While many argue this is easier screamed than done, I suggest one simple rule change. Once a ball a player hits has passed over the net, the player who hit it must be [...]
Has the NBA become the EPL?
23 Nov 2012As the first full season with the National Basketball Association’s new collective bargaining agreement gets into full swing, now is the time to look back on the ramifications of last year’s negotiations and subsequent lockout. For all the back and forth of that one tedious locked-out summer, how much has really changed in the NBA? [...]
Will US sport go ad mad?
29 Oct 2012The NBA has made plenty of changes in the last 12 months, some monumental and some predominantly superficial. But one of the most intriguing moves is the proposed placement of a 2.5 by 2.5 inch patch of advertising on NBA jerseys. If it happens, and most sources are saying it will, the NBA will be [...]
Will reputation get Petero a spot in his final Origin series?
9 May 2012So it’s all at an end for Petero Civoniceva. The man of a thousand pronunciations is finally hanging up the size 15s and saying goodbye to a sparkling career. I’m thrilled for him and would love it if he could get the send-off he deserves – a final premiership with the Broncos. I don’t, however, [...]
The good, the bad and the disturbingly ugly
24 Mar 2012There is nothing more distressing in sport than seeing what we saw on Friday night. When Jharal Yow Yeh went up in the 23rd minute of the Broncos’ clash with the Rabbitohs, at first glance it looked like he came down in a jarring fashion. It wasn’t until seeing how he reacted that it was [...]
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