Measuring the Intangibles: Brains Over Brawn
When it comes to measuring an athlete’s skills there are a lot of things we use to evaluate them. Things like size, strength, speed, endurance, ball skills and more depending on the sport itself. There...
View ArticleGirls: How to Impress Him, With Sport
First of all – I’m not a qualified relationship advisor or a dating commentator by any means and this certainly isn’t a sexist article, simply an opinion piece in the sporting arena. Recently had a...
View ArticleEveryday Racism: Eddie, Goodesy and a 13 Year Old Girl
Racism is both awful and unfortunately all too common. There are some people in society who think it isn’t particularly common anymore and that it is a relic of the past, but those tend to be the...
View ArticleSydney Swans Injury Crisis
The Sydney Swans injury list has added a new recruit with forward Sam Reid now in doubt for the rest of the season and possibly the finals. Reid left the field in the first quarter of the game against...
View ArticleThey Might Be Giants
I’ve been thinking about writing a piece on this subject for much of the 2013 AFL season and finally got around to it now. We are currently entering Round 19 of the season and the GWS Giants are still...
View ArticleWhy Would Essendon Keep the Faith?
Get past the irony that Essendon gave their 2013 membership campaign the slogan ‘whatever it takes’, they were only late by a year; and the laughter ceases and everything begins to get serious. Their...
View ArticleLong Live the Kennett Curse
My favourite moment of Kevin Rudd’s rein at the top of the Australian Labor Party was the smug grin he gave when being sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia for the second time, right before he said...
View ArticleHappy Hawks – Fragile Freo
Another AFL Grand Final has come and gone and in the wash up, Hawthorn Hawks have become 11-time champions of Australia’s most popular professional sporting code. It’s a good thing they did too because...
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