SPORT

Australian Sport’s Day of Shame

Daniel James — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:18:12 +0000

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.

LANCE ARMSTRONG - JUST ANOTHER SCANDAL THAT IS RUINING SPORT

Daniel James — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:25:32 +0000

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.

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

Dan Farrimond — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:32:10 +0000

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.

Go Canadamerica!

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:52:05 +0000

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?

2011 NBA Champions: The Dallas Mavericks

Bosco — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:08:05 +0000

Jordan or LeBron?

Bosco — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:35:13 +0000

IS GOD A CATALAN? ¿Es Dios un catalán?

Joshua Ikenna — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:46:52 +0000

Barcelona Football Club, “Epitome football boni, amore omnium et invisi omnibus”, which translates in Latin to “the epitome of good football, loved by all and hated by all”, what an irony? A Catalan is the thorough-bred Barcelona Football Fan, the club itself goes by the nick-name “Catalan Giants”, giants? When in reality the tallest player there is Gerald Pique, the rest are short-men, in fact the most important players in teams all over the world are usually short, why?

The NFLPA Can Barely Feed Its Starving Children

Trevor Graumann — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:09:31 +0000

Don’t we all feel bad for professional athletes? Really, isn’t this one occupation that has given us so much and asked for so little? And when they ask for more money for their labours, shouldn’t we indulge them? Don’t they deserve another property in The Bahamas, another mistress, another dog fighting compound?

This is the state of the NFL right now: the Player’s Association has called a lockout, in the face of threats of a pay cut. I mean, the idea of a pay cut to a pro athlete’s salary is despicable. Do you know how much the property tax is on a mansion? And let’s not forget that lots of these players have drug habits to tend to. Shit, they should get a pay increase.

AND MANCHESTER UNITED WINS HER 19TH PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE

Joshua Ikenna — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:09:05 +0000

The inevitable just happened or is about to, the fear of every Kop fan worldwide is about to be confirmed, a task they felt no team could achieve, is just being rubbished by a team known as The Red Devils. In the early days of English football, they was only one force to reckon with and that force was Liverpool Football Club, a club almost unbeatable amassing several titles including an incredible 18 league titles, but with over 2 decades gone and changes occurring and the eventual renaming of the English premier league into Barclays Premier League, Liverpool FC has not remained the same, in real sense they haven’t won any league title, and as always when a vacuum is created there must be something or someone waiting to fill it up

It's Hell Without the NHL

Trevor Graumann — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:36:12 +0000

No one but a Winnipegger can understand the psychological effect of the Jets, our short-lived NHL team, who were relocated to greener pastures in Phoenix in 1996, when I was but twelve years old. At that point, a city already dealing with an inferiority complex was dealt a crucial blow. It is part of the Winnipeg imaginary that we are not world class, we are not an important capital, we do not have any attractions that tend to draw observers from the outside world (there’s that Golden Boy, who sits atop our provincial legislative building, but he doesn’t even have a penis.