When the dust settled on the 2018 Hockey WA Men’s Premier League season Ian Smyth’s sense of satisfaction may have been more justified than others.
Almost five years to the day, my friend Gus Johnston shared a remarkably candid video on YouTube that laid bare the harsh reality of homophobia in sport.
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” My Dad sent me this Jim Hightower quotation via text some time ago, and it caught me at an opportune moment.
The Netherlands will play Great Britain in the gold medal match of the women’s hockey competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games at 6am (AEST) on Saturday, 20 August.
The Hockeyroos have followed the Australian men’ hockey team out of the Rio Olympics in the quarter-final stage, going down to the New Zealand Blacksticks overnight.
It’s all over for the Australians in the men’s hockey. The Kookaburras have lost to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals in a bitterly disappointing ending to a fairly lacklustre tournament.
The Australian Hockeyroos have confirmed their qualification for the Rio Olympic Games quarter-finals with a two-goal victory over the lowly ranked Japan.
Recently on The Roar, I proposed a major shake-up to the top grade’s of hockey in Western Australia.
It is time in Australia. We need a professional hockey coaches association.
There has been a lot of talk recently about the amount of funding that goes into elite sport, with hockey coping it as a team sport that delivered disappointing results at the Rio Olympics.
Moritz Furste of Germany showed a great display of grit, determination and killer instinct in their crucial quarter-final game against New Zealand in the men’s hockey at the Olympics.
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Good stuff, Simon, and courageous. Look after yourself, get the help you need, and believe that your strength in “openi…(more)