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Are you a sport fan or a sports fan? Here is the test: Would you, for example, spend the day at the beach watching Australia’s best surf rowers, before hitting the showers and heading to watch an A-League match that night.
He is like one of the science fiction characters I was enchanted by as a boy, a meld of man and machine that became something more, something better.
The Newcastle Jets’ decision to re-appoint a former coach and star player may just have returned them to serious A-League contenders but it has also provided the first glimpse of the dangerous nature of running a ‘superclub’.
The media is pumping this weekend as an NRL vs RWC battle for the hearts and minds of New Zealanders, but I have some confronting news for them and you: most people like more than one sport.
The upcoming Kiwi Union/League boxing event, headlined by Jonah Lomu against Manu Vatuvei, is being billed as the final word on which is the superior code – but it should be just the start of a new inter-sport battle for supremacy.
Can everyone stop psychoanalysing a booing crowd? NRL boss David Gallop is the latest to feel the ire of the angry man in the cheap seats.
When the Mad Dog finally says farewell to the NRL, the colour of the game will fade a little. In this world of professional sport, where 14-year-olds are media trained, and everyone knows a clichéd response (even if they don’t understand it), Adam MacDougall is one of the last true eccentrics.
It was a question tweeted by Head of ABC Radio Sport, Craig Norenbergs, this week. The decisions he makes in that capacity could go a long way to determining the answer, but the very fact he considers it worth pondering suggests we are at a crossroads in Australian sport.
NSW State of Origin coach Ricky Stuart is well within his rights to keep picking a losing side under one condition – when the series is lost he hands in his resignation.
Hey Molly Meldrum, do yourself a favour and right this equation down: Tyson + Chess x Pop Culture = Sport’s greatest contribution to music.
If it’s good enough for John Farnham and Lee Kernaghan, Kostya Tszyu should be crowned Australian of the Year. One-time Russian, now all-Aussie Kostya Tszyu is about the stand alongside Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez for induction into the World Boxing Hall of Fame. His sport has bestowed its highest honour. His adopted country […]
New research reveals skimpy uniforms are stopping kids from playing sports. Skimpy uniforms? A pathetic parental penchant for pandering to preciousness, more likely.
Newcastle Jets marquee and one-time English Premier League wunderkind Michael Bridges will leave a far greater mark on Australian Football in retirement than he ever did with a boot.
If you’re reading this, you love sport. But are you a true tragic? The Roar is for the sports purist who respects every nuance of most every game. But a purist is not necessarily a tragic.
State Of Origin has lost its lustre. No longer is it the event that defines winter on the east coast of Australia. No longer is it the showcase of the greatest players in the game.
They are unlikely bedfellows and yet it is a match made in heaven. The anti-charismatic yet highly-theatrical supercoach Wayne Bennett has anointed the Newcastle Knights worthy of his wisdom for the next four years. It will echo far beyond the borders of the Hunter Region to the very edges of the Rugby League empire.
Every sports team in the world wants to play in front of a huge crowd, yet a consistently-packed stadium is an elusive dream for all but the chosen few. Winning is the sure fire way to ensure a healthy following. But as your Mum always told you; “You can’t always win, darling.”
The Newcastle Knights this week became the latest in a long line of sporting organisations to be privatised. So as you wrap your club scarf around your neck and grab your season ticket, ask yourself this: who owns your team?
Ricky ‘Punter’ Ponting may be more likely to study a form guide than a poll result but he can learn a thing of two from the NSW election, because he is a lot like the Kristina Keneally of Australian sport.
When Australia’s top orthopaedic says gang tackles must be outlawed, your first reaction is probably to grimace at the prospect of another unenforceable law change. No, blowing the whistle when the third man comes in is NOT the answer.
