BY DAN You may not have noticed but on Sunday night Anna Meares won her 11th World Championship in the Keirin at the World Track Cycling Championships. If that sounds like a lot it’s because that makes her the second most successful track cyclist of all time. Yes that includes dudes. Just fucking rad. Plainly … More Anna Meares is the greatest (as evidenced by box jumps)
BY BEN Karmichael Hunt We all thought Karmichael Hunt was a number 1. From his 5 years in the NRL Karmichael excelled as a fullback for the Broncos, Queensland and Australia. Karmichael also made a successful transition to the Gold Coast Suns in the midfield earning an admirer in the great Gary Abblett Jr: He’s … More Queensland Reds: Three Number Tens
BY HERMAN It’s a tired old formula. Sport player does something bad, controversial or stupid. The moral outrage brigade jumps up on their high horse. “These players are mentors, people look up to them” “I can’t believe anyone could do something like that”, “he should have known better”, “sportspeople are idiots, dickheads”, “sport X has … More The Same Old Outrage: Don’t Tell Me About the Brand
BY DAN We know it all already. England and Pakistan are hopeless. After early losses in this World Cup, areas of the media have reacted predictably and declared the World Cup over. Poor Andy Zaltzmen was reduced to identifying Chris Woakes as the highlight from England’s match against New Zealand. England and Pakistan are out. … More Getting Carried Away
BY DAN Darren Sharper is a former pro-footballer and was one of the elite defensive backs of the National Football League (NFL) in the 2000s. He has recently become eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and based solely on his on-field career could be standing next to his bust in Canton, Ohio at … More Of Principles and Outcomes: Darren Sharper and the Hall of Fame.
BY DAN The first thing he sacrificed for the Knicks was his body. When the Knicks signed Amar’e Stoudemire they knew they had to be careful with his conditioning, particularly his knees. While Stoudemire had at that stage only had the one major injury – cartilage damage in his knees that required micro-fracture surgery in 2005 … More The sacrifices of Amar’e Stoudemire
BY BEN In the words of the immortal Taylor Swift “the players going to play, and the haters going to hate”. The immortal Tay Tay provides all of us with life advice. This statement is especially true when applied to the great game of cricket. I suspect Taylor Swift is a big cricket fan. So … More Trying to be like George Bailey: Diary of a reformed “hater”
BY ROB We’ve all had those days at work where life in general goes completely pear-shaped. Things get broken or lost, messages mixed up and we can practically hear the thoughts of co-workers drilling into our brains: “What’s that numpty going to do next?” These days are also experienced by NRL players, and their brain … More Use Your Head Dummy: Classic NRL Blunders
BY DAN As any true cricket fan knows, the World Cup is probably the only time you should care about One Day cricket. Apparently this year there’s only two groups and no Super Sixes. Outrageous. We thought it would be better to separate them into these groups. The Just Happy to Be There Group: Zimbabwe, … More Your World Cup Preview
BY HERMAN There are few personalities in Rugby League as polarising as Ricky Stuart. Loved and respected by some, loathed, detested and written off by others. His coaching career to date has been similarly polarising. Great success at the beginning, followed by less than stellar results at a number of clubs. Throughout it all there … More The Reckoning of Ricky Stuart
