The pressure is building on defending NBL champions Sydney, but coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah isn’t feeling it, even after a loss to the bottom-placed Adelaide 36ers. Thursday night’s contest in front of a record South Australian crowd of 9580 at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre featured the last-placed Sixers against a Kings team needing a win. The […]
The Roar’s A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 12
It was another ripping week for Texi Smith in Round 11 and he has his eyes on another dominant performance in the first ever A-League ‘Unite Round’ beginning Friday night. The powers that be have dealt us a brilliant set of matches. Macarthur FC and Western United kick things off in the Friday twilight, before […]
The 10 greatest Australian Open controversies: ‘No-Vaxx’ scandal, McEnroe default and Margaret Court protests
The Australian Open has a history littered with controversies – perhaps the biggest coming before the 2022 tournament even began. An unvaccinated Novak Djokovic landed in Australia as tournament favourite and confident he had obtained the required medical exemptions to play. But after touching down, the three-time reigning champion was detained and questioned by border […]
COMMENT: Rugby Australia given wake-up call by All Blacks … AGAIN
Not that they needed it, but Rugby Australia got another wake-up call earlier this week. As Rugby Australia crawls toward finding their next Wallabies coach, the All Blacks hit the ground running with a pre-season camp led by new coach Scott Robertson and his brilliantly assembled coaching staff. After being asked to stay away from […]
Just like in rugby union, rugby league nostalgia is not what it used to be
When does old footy start to look like new footy? It’s an interesting thought to consider given the vast changes in rules, fitness, analytics and coaching over the last 25 years since the arrival of full-time professionalism in rugby league. It’s one that the other code has been acutely aware of. Having had no professionalism […]