This may come as a rude surprise to local sports fans, but this year’s Commonwealth Games may not be the sporting extravaganza organisers have promised. Yes, yes, it’s unthinkable, but with top athletes dropping out left and right, it’s hard not to reach that conclusion. Last week, Aussie cyclist Robbie McEwen joined Baden Cooke, Stuart […]
When Australia walks onto ground today to play Sri Lanka in the first of this year’s one-day internationals, it’s also another stage of the journey to the 2007 World Cup. The Australian selectors have all but admitted that this series and the year’s remaining one-dayers are trials for the squad that will compete in the […]
While the dust is beginning to settle on the scramble for Australian World Cup tickets, the gripes from unsuccessful applicants grow louder. And a picture of the ticket allocation process is beginning to emerge that shows wild inconsistencies under the official “first-in first-served” policy the Football Federation of Australia said would be used to distribute […]
There might be a time in the future when humans can’t cover 100 metres by foot any faster than they already have, but it seems any sport that relies on technology and machinery will always have a good chance of setting new world records. Overnight, sailing’s 24 hour distance record for a monohull boat was […]
Death seems a high price for Australian motorcyclist Andy Caldecott to pay for racing across the dusty tracks of the African desert, but the Dakar Rally is a dangerous event. As The Agereported yesterday, it has taken 23 lives in the last 28 years. This begs the question, is it the world’s most dangerous sporting […]
If it was left up to fans, we’d see a lot more Twenty20 cricket. With a record crowd crammed into the Gabba last night, they hooted and hollered and waved their placards at everything from Damien Martyn’s big-hitting to the breakdancing (yes, breakdancing) put on between overs. Last night’s game was a celebration of hit […]
Although the result was the same for both teams, there was a marked difference in the responses to yesterday’s drawn Test in Perth. While the South Africans weren’t exactly jubilant, it was a very positive start to the series. There is talk of the Proteas taking momentum into the next match and their biggest problem […]
Yesterday, Crikey sports correspondent Jeff Wall asked where the money from player fines goes in the NRL. It seems the issue of where the money goes is easier for some to answer than others. For their part, the Cronulla Sharks were able to provide a swift explanation of where the $10,000 generated by Hutch Maiava […]
If you follow sport, and not the politics or business of sport, you might think Greg Norman has had a pretty hard time of it recently. Arriving in Australia for a new golf course design announcement, which happened to be at the same time as the Australian Open, for which Norman chose not to tee-up, […]
With its recent warning about sanctions for players who ignore the “spirit of the game,” is the ICC naively trying to fit sportspeople like Shane Warne, Kevin Pietersen, and Jacques Kallis into the ideal of players like, umm, Graham Yallop and Bruce Laird? OK, maybe, the Don. Let’s not forget these are highly competitive, professional […]
