Australian Sport’s Day of Shame

AFL CEO Andrew DemetriouJust a few short weeks ago yours truly wrote a blog about Lance Armstrong and how his scandal was just another in a long list of scandals that is ruining sport.

To that list you can now add Australian sport, well Australian professional sport at the very least. A year long secret investigation by the Australian Crime Commission has found evidence of systematic, doping, corruption and infiltration by organized crime.

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LANCE ARMSTRONG - JUST ANOTHER SCANDAL THAT IS RUINING SPORT

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal has rocked cycling and the world of sport to its foundations. Armstrong’s calculated, methodical use of EPO and other banned performance enhancing substances during his cycling career has destroyed his reputation and tarnished the Tour De France forever.

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Wimbledon 2011: Remembering John Isner and Nicolas Mahut's 'endless match'

Today marks precisely one year since the most astonishing match in tennis history, a contest that will live long in the memory of anyone who witnessed any part of it.

When American 21^st seed John Isner drew French qualifier Nicolas Mahut in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon championships, he must have expected a relatively easy passage through to the next stage. As the match entered its fifth set, however, the score remained at two sets each with Isner clawing back the fourth on a tie-break. At this stage, he would just have been grateful to take the game to a second day as the players left the court due to fading light at 9.07pm.

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Go Canadamerica!

The 2011 Stanley Cup will wrap up this week in North America as America's Boston Bruins and Canada's Vancouver Canucks muscle for rank to show not just which state but which country is this year's best competitor in the (uh, Inter?)National Hockey League. 

Oh wait. 

Actually, as it turns out, America's friendly neighbor to the north is apparently going to be the winner, no matter how the last few games are sliced. Both teams are comprised of a majority of Canadians.

In fact, Vancouver's team actually has more Americans than Boston's team. 

And even at that, out of 31 players for Vancouver, the number of American players, which already outnumbers those on America's Boston team? A whopping six. 

So how many (or how few) of the 33 players on Boston's team are actually from the United States?

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2011 NBA Champions: The Dallas Mavericks

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