The Socceroos play Kuwait at Stadium Australia next week in an Asian Cup qualifier and the game is a sell-out. But the World Cup afterglow won't last forever...
The spectre of AFL clubs throwing games was raised earlier this year when Terry Wallace suggested an incentive system – $100,000 to the winner of each game – might stop clubs taking to the field with anything but the four premiership points in mind. Of course, it was just an idea and easy to leave […]
The controversy surrounding Floyd Landis’s positive drug tests is a good example of what passes for sport these days. Two weeks after it finished, this year’s Tour de France has almost nothing to do with cycling. It’s now about labs, lawyers, appeals, and the shame cycling is facing as its marquee event again tries to […]
Badminton: feathers not flying like they used to. The scourge of bird flu has reached the sport of badminton, with news that the feathers used to make shuttlecocks are in short supply after millions of their manufacturers – Chinese geese – have been slaughtered to contain the disease. The Chinese goose feather is favoured for […]
Skim through the acres of news devoted to Floyd Landis’s positive drug test and you’ll arrive at one fairly simple conclusion: he’s a goner. True or not, fair or not, right or not, the world’s media doesn’t paint a hopeful picture for the American, who doesn’t need to read a word of it to know […]
Melbourne’s major event planners have dropped Bernie Ecclestone’s big race in it again, scheduling the Grand Prix and the World Swimming Championships alongside one another during March 2007. That’s a concern for Ecclestone. It will be the second year in a row his GP has come up against another major international sporting event. After witnessing […]
Elite sport is looking more and more like a jail yard in which all of the inmates are innocent, despite the evidence against them. Last week it was Tour de France winner Floyd Landis who recorded a higher than legal testosterone count. He fronted the media to protest his innocence and tell the world he […]
Landis: the reaction. Upon being pinned for a positive drug test, it’s de rigueur to deny it. You never know: maybe by some miracle the second test will come back negative, despite the rarity of that happening. Landis is not confident the second test will clear him, telling Sports Illustrated he’s “not hopeful” of a […]
Former Collingwood player Len Thompson says it’s time the AFL addressed the “physical and emotional plight of ex-players”. According to Thompson, a rally of ex-players last week urged the AFL “to address the issue by funding the establishment of a $10 million foundation to finance the cost of well-deserved and greatly needed support and services […]
Last week, when the clubs involved in the Italian match-fixing scandal were given their punishments, there was little surprise that three of the main players – Juventus, Lazio, and Fiorentina – were relegated to the second division. AC Milan suffered only a points penalty. For Juventus, the penalty went further than demotion. They were also […]
