Meet Kevin Mitchell and Kevin Mitchell Jnr, the Gabba's famous curators who have the job to prepare the wicket for the much anticipated First Test of the Ashes in Brisbane, writes Cricinfo's Peter English.
To think that the same people preaching the message of a Wallabies revival, writes the SMH's Adam Freier, are now reinventing the way rugby should played in this country.
He;s a different type of cat, but after spending eight years in the cricketing wilderness Graeme Swann can lay claim to being the best spinner in the world. And how the Australians deal with England's X Factor will go a long way in determining the Ashes.
Have Spurs finally turned a corner and caught up to Arsenal?
A man who was arguably the most reviled athlete in this country in 2007 is now the toast of American sports, writes ESPN's Rick Reilly, and after spending 18 months in prisoner for animal cruelty Michael Vick is taking the NFL by storm.
Deadspin compiles a list of the worst NFL players in history and while not all of them were disappointing -- they all were very bad.
In the Crikey Sports blog's new Monday wrap we recount the weekend's sports happenings from around the world including Eric Cantona's diatribe against banks and a spectacular second round knockout from Sergio Martinez.
About the only thing more micro-managed than TV News and politics is the AFL and AFL clubs. They pride themselves on slick professionalism and media management -- and don’t often muck up. But a few hilarious bloopers unfolded yesterday, notes Leigh Josey.
Australian cricket is in a dark place right now, writes The Guardian's Duncan Fletcher, and you have to go back more than 30 years, to the era when Kerry Packer had tempted away the best players to World Series Cricket, to find the last time the team were in such a muddled state.
Tiger Woods writes exclusively today for Newsweek about his marriage break up, the car accident and how he is reinventing the art of winning golf tournaments.
