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The great games don’t necessarily tell you they’re great at first.
The great games don’t necessarily tell you they’re great at first.
As a rugby league broadcaster who interviews players and coaches, every now and then I get lucky and get an insight that just stops me in my tracks and makes my love for the game explode.
Martin Guptill dives, Jos Buttler stays clutch and I drop back to my seat. Head in hands, I listen to the monkey-freeing roar that rings around Lord’s.
Two weeks ago Vic Masters rugby celebrated one of the highlights of their season, what has now become an annual fixture, a curtain-raiser to the Rebels vs Waratahs match at AAMI Stadium, between the ‘Wannabees’ and ‘Old Blacks’.
It would be easy to blame the Matildas’ disappointing result against Italy in their FIFA Women’s World Cup opener on a high defensive line.
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.
It’s a mystery the Australian team wasn’t arrested by Indian authorities. They didn’t even try to hide their actions.
It’s a mystery the Australian team wasn’t arrested by Indian authorities. They didn’t even try to hide their actions.
It’s a mystery the Australian team wasn’t arrested by Indian authorities. They didn’t even try to hide their actions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An international cricket selector must look at both statistics as the foundation of form and non-statistical information to understand those stats in context.
An international cricket selector must look at both statistics as the foundation of form and non-statistical information to understand those stats in context.
An international cricket selector must look at both statistics as the foundation of form and non-statistical information to understand those stats in context.
The great games don’t necessarily tell you they’re great at first.
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And he’s professed that where?
He’s not a professional cricket player. He’s never purported himself to be one.
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