The AFL has had an overwhelmingly successful season and the fast approaching finals will likely be the icing on the delicious cake that is AFL in 2012. The final eight has shifted all year with no team sitting clearly above the rest but finally the ladder is set. Five birds are perched in the top … Continue reading
What’s going on with Bernard Tomic? There are two schools of thought on this one. First, the popular one. He tanked. John McEnroe said it, and nearly everyone else believed it. Tomic lost to Andy Roddick in straight sets at the US Open in the kind of disinterested capitulation that’s just hard to watch. Even … Continue reading
The NRL Finals Series kicks off in few days, but before we turn our attention to the competitions best eight teams, let’s take a look at the competitions best players in their positions in 2012 and try and fit them into a starting 13. Given the dominance that the top teams have shown this year … Continue reading
What did we learn from round 25 of the 2012 NRL Season? Here’s the five big points, starting with the in-form Green Machine. No team wants to face the Raiders in September The Canberra Raiders served notice to a host of top 8 teams over the weekend, with an emphatic 34-6 thumping of Canterbury that … Continue reading
It hasn’t been Australia’s greatest Olympics. That much is obvious. What is less obvious is who is to blame. Cause if we’re not winning gold someone is at fault. The result of this apparent lack of success has been a witch-hunt. First it was the government for not giving enough money for our elite athletes. … Continue reading