The problem with coaches staying too long: Will Brisbane have the courage to move Chris Fagan on if they don’t contend?

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Brisbane has started the season poorly, and different theories abound as to why. Prominent among those over the last week has been the reporting of internal unrest after various happenings related to an off-season trip divided the playing group. These allegations are always hard to prove, and the impact on the football results is even […]

Getting value for money from stars is the biggest competitive advantage in the NRL – and the flip side can be devastating

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The salary cap at all clubs is equal, it’s just that some are more equal than others. All the animals in the NRL farm get the same funding from head office and have the same salary cap amount of $12 million plus to spend on players but there will never be parity.  Coaching, sports science […]

Heading for a sad ending: The pending departure of the Athletics in Oakland is a black mark for Major League Baseball

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As current plans sit, the 2024 season will be the Oakland Athletics’ last in a market that they’ve called home for over 50 years – and the grand finale might be one of the saddest sights in sports. Just over 13,500 tickets were sold for the home opener, but many fans were still angry at […]

‘He is going to do it at some point’: Piastri on track to break Australia’s 44-year F1 drought

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The author of a new book on Aussie F1 prodigy Oscar Piastri believes the Melbourne driver has what it takes to become Australia’s first Formula 1 World Champion in close to 50 years. Renowned motorsport journalist and editorial director of Speedcafe Andrew van Leeuwen says that Piastri has shown early signs that he is the […]

We must never accept ignorance as an excuse for negligence when it comes to concussion

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We seem to fall for the same nonsense line all the time, and it’s a little ridiculous. The line goes like this: no doctor would send out a player if he wasn’t completely right to play. Now please, for goodness sake, don’t misconstrue my words. This isn’t an attempt to criticise the medical community or […]