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Professional club footy has a way of making fools out of those of us who are easily led into thinking that the retirement of aging superstar players means a little bit of the game is lost, too. We were being fed similar narratives surrounding this ye

1 After everything that’s been said and done about the Israel Folau saga, consider: this could have been a problem for any of the three oval-ball codes. And it just happened to be union, at a period of maximum struggle, that had to deal with it ...

There is never a question about Wimbledon. Everything is perfect. The grass, the grounds, the flowers, right down to the strawberries and the cream on top. It can never be considered a let-down. It holds itself to tradition, and moves with the times.

I was at boarding school in 2007 when my Billy Slater-obsessed room-mate took me along to Olympic Park for the Melbourne Storm’s opening game of the season against the Wests Tigers. It was a rough and tumble match, with both sides bashing each other

Who needs, you know, actual games? Offseason player movement is what spins the news cycle, and the NBA has a particularly severe case of the fantasy-team impulse that drives fandom these days. The keynote event is the NBA Draft (Jun 20) in Brooklyn,

1 The planet’s biggest cycling race, and the best possible advertisement for French tourism, rolls off the start line on July 6. And even after all the fanfare for the 100th Tour back in 2013, we have more centenaries to celebrate – this year marks t

Jana Pittman is an Australian sporting icon. Throughout her athletic career she achieved so much: two world champs victories in the 400m hurdles in 2003 and 2007, anyone? She won gold at the ‘02 and ’06 Commonwealth Games in the same event and was al

Why netball for you? How did your journey in the sport start out? As a kid I had very sporty parents; they really encouraged me to play sport. I grew up playing netball, football, basketball – anything that I could do. My parents used to play mixed

TEAMS retain older players for many reasons. The obvious one is that good onfield performance is not necessarily the province of youth. As is the case with many pursuits in life, some players need to age in order to realise the fullness of their tale

WHEN Cameron Munster was nine years old, he was told by his mum and dad, Deb and Steve, that they didn’t like the thought of young Cameron playing rugby league, or any other contact sports for that matter. Yeah, that’s right. Munster. The bloke who i

1 Miraildes Maciel Mota, more commonly known as Formiga, is a Brazilian midfielder currently playing for Paris Saint-Germain. Aside from Marta, Formiga is arguably the most famous South American footballer, but not because she has won multiple World

It’s about a year since an Achilles injury put you out of action. Where are you on your netball journey as of today? For 2019 I’m a contracted NSW Swifts training partner. I’m also in the Netball NSW Waratahs’ Australian Netball League (ANL) team –

THE GREAT Johnny Warren was six middies deep at the Clovelly Hotel when I quizzed him about Australians’ derision for his great love, the beautiful game, the football we call soccer. He’d heard it all before, of course, all the jibes and sledges. He’

Asignificant increase in the number of young Polynesians playing rugby league has seen the proportion of players skyrocket to a hefty 47 percent of elite NRL squads. An impressive statistic, but despite this substantial rise in participation, desirab

TOM JONAS arrived at the Port Adelaide Football Club in 2011, when the team was in dire straits. He made his debut against Hawthorn, Power losing by 165 points at the MCG; they would go on to win just three games that year. A lot has happened since t

Jugs machines enable players of all age groups to improve existing strengths and overcome any weaknesses they may have in their batting. All types of deliveries can be simulated with the unit’s independent, variable-speed motors – in-swing, out-swing

With an injury-ravaged New South Wales Blues squad up 1-0 in the 2004 State of Origin series, coach Phil “Gus” Gould needed to act. Gus’s halves options Trent Barrett, Matt Orford and Brett Kimmorley were all unavailable through injury, as was Game I