Sixteen years of sportswriting, mostly rugby league and AFL.
50 essays
Motorsport & Cycling
The return of the great Michael Schumacher to Formula One this weekend has overshadowed another resurrection; that of Felipe Massa. During qualifying at last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix a small, innocuous spring dislodged…
Rugby League
Not even Melbourne can produce subzero temperatures, sleet and North Sea mists on game day. But this is the World Cup Challenge…
AFL
Recently I bent down to pick up my kids. My hip ached as I lowered myself and when I pushed upwards a…
Motorsport & Cycling
Australian cyclist Graeme Brown, never a popular man in the peloton, has made damning admissions that are certain to destroy his career in Europe.…
Cricket
According to the QI Book Of The Dead, your chances of being famous are enhanced significantly if your father is dead or…
Sport
Fresh from boasting about Melbourne’s official title as The World’s Best Sporting City, the Victorian Government has begun negotiations over the naming rights of…
Cricket
Ricky Ponting made uninspired decisions and had no luck with the toss. The selectors left out Stuart Clark when he should have played…
Rugby League
Opposition supporters say they’re chokers. Wayne Bennett said they were unlucky. But I know the real reason St George-Illawarra failed to win…
Cricket
The new season of international cricket is almost upon us. It will be a summer cricketfest of 3 Mobile Tests, KFC Twenty20’s, ODIs and STDs.…
Rugby League
After watching the first Four Nations encounter between Australia and England in Wigan I started to wonder if BBC stood for Blatantly Biased…
Sport
I despised Andre Agassi when I first saw his long wispy hair and that gold earring; a desert rat with tacky jewellery. He came from Las Vegas.…
Sport
“Victoria Racing Club barman Les Taggart’s smiling face greets connections as they arrive in his Flemington bar to celebrate a win”, says…
