After assisting the All Blacks for 218 Tests, Mike Cron admits it will be “awkward” coaching against his home country but says a desire to help Joe Schmidt saw him jump on board his compatriot’s Wallabies mission. The veteran coach, who is known affectionately as the “scrum doctor”, was announced on Tuesday as Schmidt’s scrum […]
There are few topics that present more of an existential threat to what modern sport looks like than concussion. To use one metaphor, it is the genie that is out of the bottle. Once we know what we know, we can’t unknow it, and all the practices of the past, whether allowing knocked-out footy players […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
