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Hot Form Charts: Pies will force Saints to focus
It’s finals time for the AFL. Who will win? We’re here to help.
Hot Form Charts: Damp sheets, penetration and nether regions
No need to rub your eyes, the Form Chart is not on the blink, writes Crikey’s resident footy nerd.
The pain of sports journalists: footy clichés or one word answers
It’s being described as ‘footy’s worst interview ever’: NRL Dragons player Darius Boyd speaks just 28 words in response to eight questions. Naomi Toy imagines Boyd’s future footy cliché filled answers.
Hot Form Charts: History lesson for the Saints and the Pies
The last time an Ashes series went to a deciding fifth Test was 43 years ago, in 1966 — the year St Kilda and the Magpies met in the grand final. The Form Chart has read the tea leaves too, it seems.
A brief history of great sporting code switchers
Rugby League pin-up boy Karmichael Hunt is switching codes to join the AFL’s newest franchise, the Gold Coast Football Club. We take a look at other sporting switch-hitters and whether their big gambles paid off.
The AFL’s stunning Karmichael Hunt recruiting coup
At a tumultuous news conference this morning, Karmichael Hunt confirmed that he has accepted a senior playing contract with the new Gold Coast AFL franchise from 2010.
Hot Form Charts: Hot Form Chart haiku
Let’s hope Craig Wing’s Foxtel fans can live without his top-and-tailing their favourite Marlon Brando documentaries.
Hot Form Charts: NRL ladder top four look set for finals
The week’s predictions for NRL: despite the haywire nature of recent weeks, our top four hold the same positions (in slightly different order) on the NRL ladder and should go on to lock them in for the finals, says Crikey’s resident footy nerd.
Hot Form Charts: Hot tips for the weekend’s NRL & AFL games
In NRL: Manly has bucked Origin personnel issues and early season form to come roaring back to the top of the Hot Form Chart. And in AFL: We will still tip St Kilda and the Cats. You will too.
Hot Form Charts: Round 14 AFL: how’s it looking?
Time to get your tips in with Crikey’s resident footy nerd.
Hot Form Charts: A tough week for tipsters
A tough week for tipsters last week and round 15 won’t get any easier with state of origin duties impacting heavily on the abbreviated series of matches.
Hot Form Charts: Swine flu shows AFL tougher than NRL
Rugby league, battered by violence, drunkenness and sexual assault, is now having the stuffing knocked out of it by the flu just to show that, on top of everything else, Aussie Rules players really are tougher.
Hot Form Charts: Terry’s last night
So it’s farewell to Tiger Terry, writes Crikey’s resident footy nerd.
Hot Form Charts: Finally, the best teams at the top in AFL
For the first time this season, the best credentialed teams in the competition have made their way into Crikey’s Hot Form Chart top four for AFL, writes Crikey’s resident footy nerd.
Tips and rumours: Next problem for the NRL?
Harvey Norman threatens to withdraw support, Westpac wage freeze, nut contamination. All stories in today’s Tips & Rumours section.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Australians overseas behaving badly
Crikey readers on Aussie travellers, Germainem Greer, the Age Pension and more.
Guy Rundle: How sport got caught between group sex and a dishwasher
What’s going on in rugby league? It sure ain’t football.
Sport and sex: rogue players, predatory women and power
Why do sportspeople feature regularly in reports of sexual shenanigans? Social scientists explain.
To whom it may concern: Should I dob my team-mates in?
Crikey’s Agony Aunt looks at team loyalty versus coming clean.
Four Corners responds to “Code of Silence” backlash
ABC’s Four Corners have issued a statement to “set the record straight” on their recent episode “Code of Silence”, which explored sexual misconduct within the NRL.
Tips and rumours: Government already setting up the tally room?
An eagle-eyed Crikey reader spots a tender for the construction of the National Tally Room, while another spots NRL players in the bargain bin.
Sex and debt combine to bite Sharks
The fallout from Matthew Johns’ involvement in a group sex episode on a trip to New Zealand in 2002 is overshadowing serious financial problems at the Cronulla club.
Code of silence: the murky mix of stars, sex and sports writers
As well as bringing into focus that culture, the Johns Affair also raises questions about the sometimes murky relationship between sportswriters and their sport.
