Sport is not only big business but also an activity where hugely disproportionate returns accrue to the most successful.
Test cricket
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: Chris Mitchell and The Oz … it just ain’t cricket
The Australian again has become a haven for sceptics, deniers and downright nutters.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Tennis gives Seven the week … Last night’s TV ratings.
Cricket in crisis: Call in the handicapper
Cricket looks like it’s in crisis for the forseeable future (and it’s not just the almost gameless December). What can be done to make Test cricket a test once again? asks Norman Abjorensen.
Cricket’s summer of discontent beckons
This summer’s international cricket series – which will stretch out even longer than usual to the first week in March – could hardly have got off to a worse start, and an increasingly unfriendly media has wasted no time in highlighting it, writes Jeff Wall.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
So far this week we have seen three surveys of primary support for the Coalition and ALP. Neilsen has it at 48 to 41. Newspoll says 48 to 42. Roy Morgan’s estimate today is 49 to 39, giving a two-party preferred figure of 57.5 to 42.5.
