Amid all the hysteria and gnashing of teeth that accompanies any team following a particular galling loss, it’s worth remembering at all times that our game has an unmatched capacity to be very, very funny. How else would you describe a team and a coach in the gun all week, with rumours of player discontent […]

Death, taxes and the Storm defying pre-season predictions that this year will be the one when they slip down the ladder. Seven rounds into the NRL season and Melbourne are yet again atop the ladder with a 5-1 record after rolling past the Roosters 18-12 at Allianz Stadium on Thursday night.  But it was not […]

David Lord has been remembered as an icon of Australian sports journalism following his death, aged 84. The renowned writer and broadcaster was an accomplished cricketer in his youth, captaining Mosman in first grade, before spending several decades covering a range of sports for newspaper, television and radio.  He was a long-time contributor to The […]

The in-form ACT Brumbies have returned from their bye week raring to go and more mentally switched on than they’ve been all year, Stephen Larkham says. But the coach insisted his third-placed side must not rest on their laurels as the business-end of the season draws closer.  Far from interrupting the momentum generated by a […]

Former AFL star Ben Cousins believes his ‘life’s never been better’, following a years-long battle with a substance abuse problem. The 2005 Brownlow Medallist, Cousins’ standing as one of the game’s modern greats was tarnished after drugs derailed his career, causing him to be sacked by West Coast at the end of 2007 before further […]