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A nation of rugby fans go to bed tonight with a sense of tragedy in their gut.
A nation of rugby fans go to bed tonight with a sense of tragedy in their gut.
This weekend, Australian racing will lose one of its best thoroughbreds of all time to retirement.
In the recent Socceroos campaigns in Russia and the UAE, it has become quite apparent the playing squad needs a serious shakeup, based around exciting young players at its core.
If there’s a cricketing retort that grates me more than any other, it’s the one that has regularly been thrown up over the last fortnight as Australia marched to a convincing series win over Sri Lanka in Brisbane and Canberra, reclaiming the Warne-Muralitharan trophy along the way.
Last week was ‘purge’ week. That nadir of the year when you collect all of the old paper you’ve accumulated – bills, adverts, statements, letters – and burn the outdated rubbish in a steel bin.
Moneyball was a movie based on the Oakland Athletics’ Major League Baseball team’s success in building a team of undervalued talent through purely statistical and analytical measures.
The 2018-19 season ended for the Tennessee Titans as so many have before; prematurely, without a playoff berth to look forward to, and endless questions lurking on the horizon.
An international cricket selector must look at both statistics as the foundation of form and non-statistical information to understand those stats in context.
Australia’s 3-2 defeat of Syria in their final group game in the AFC Cup had resonance beyond the scoreline and the official booking of the Socceroos into the next round.
Australia’s 3-2 defeat of Syria in their final group game in the AFC Cup had resonance beyond the scoreline and the official booking of the Socceroos into the next round.
Australia’s 3-2 defeat of Syria in their final group game in the AFC Cup had resonance beyond the scoreline and the official booking of the Socceroos into the next round.
There are poisoned chalices and then there’s being asked to replace Shane Keith Warne.
There are poisoned chalices and then there’s being asked to replace Shane Keith Warne.
There are poisoned chalices and then there’s being asked to replace Shane Keith Warne.
We keep hearing it. That Australia needs to play hard cricket. Or tough cricket. But not one person who says it can define what it means.
The triple century is cricket’s rarefied tier, the area of the stats sheet where mortals dare not tread.
I had my first taste of boarding school when I was 11 years old. At the time, I used to whistle Bob Dylan’s song Blowin’ in the Wind out of habit. I liked the lyrics and the melody, and it appealed to my feeling for a new life that I neither knew nor understood.
Adam Gilchrist’s career was always about being fearless.
As I read the 145 pages of the Ethics Committee review into Australian cricket, I started hearing Jack Nicholson’s voice – in the role of Colonel Nathan Jessup from A Few Good Men – creeping slowly into my consciousness, like an insidious, hissing snake.
Some moments, you always remember where you were when they happened.
Occasionally, it isn’t a matter of hyperbole to talk about something in terms of the best or worst ever. This is one such case.
There are three minutes left in the grand final. Collingwood have been hanging on for dear life for an hour now, but a ticking clock has tightened their grip on the premiership.
For the rest of Mitchell Johnson’s life, the defining moment of his career will, of course, be the 2013-14 Ashes, with the early 2014 tour to South Africa to follow.
For the rest of Mitchell Johnson’s life, the defining moment of his career will, of course, be the 2013-14 Ashes, with the early 2014 tour to South Africa to follow.
For the rest of Mitchell Johnson’s life, the defining moment of his career will, of course, be the 2013-14 Ashes, with the early 2014 tour to South Africa to follow.
A nation of rugby fans go to bed tonight with a sense of tragedy in their gut.
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