The solid ratings yesterday on Ten's sports channel One for the Formula One race from South Korea expose the nonsense at the heart of James Packer's arguments that One should be closed and something cheaper broadcast.
Crikey’s Sport tsar Leigh Josey and SmartCompany Editor James Thomson have a look at which horses have a chance at taking out the coveted Cox Plate.
As the Gold Coast spiv community struggles to rev-up the hyperbole ahead of the Gold Coast 600 V8 race this weekend, the biggest story of all appears to have been ignored by the glitter strip's sole daily newspaper.
Janko Tipsarevic, of Serbia, and Argentina's Horacio Zeballos faced off in the Kremlin Cup. Zeballos won. Nothing too strange about that, except the manner in which the match unfolded soon raised alarm bells and red flags, says Jonathan Howcroft.
Bookies are rarely seen as charitable organisations, so any time they cough up early on a wager there could be reason for suspicion. Crikey examines the marketing stunt and increasingly pervasive nature of betting agencies.
The NFL is now cracking down on helmet-to-helmet hits -- and it's causing quite a stir, writes Fanhouse's Dan Graziano.
Racing’s attitude to illicit drugs is still reflective of how sports like AFL used to think, writes Back Page Lead's Ralph Horowitz.
Mark Webber is currently 14 points clear of Sebastian Vettel but, according to F1 Fanatic's Keith Collantine, he really should be 59 points behind the German.
BigFooty's Jamie Johnstone regales the story of a friend, who by trolling on football forum BigFooty, had his lie duplicated by the mainstream media. In the end it cost Jamie a slab of beer...
Lack of exercise is the "new" tobacco. It is strongly associated in large numbers of studies with heart disease, stroke, most cancers, diabetes, osteoporosis and depression, writes sports physician John Orchard.
