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RICHO’S TOP 10: A mid-season trade period could be the saviour for AFL clubs plagued with injuries, why the Gather Round should stay in South Australia & the Cats are back
MITCHELL JOHNSON: Umpires make bad calls, that is part and parcel of sport at all levels but attacking umpires is never OK and fixing it starts with the parents of eight year olds.
KATE MASSEY: A sledge on sexuality is bottom of the barrel. So the AFL coming down hard on Port Adelaide’s Jeremy Finlayson is a no brainer for a no brain comment. But should they go even further like the NFL?
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The Enhanced Games will do little to enhance the reputations of those athletes silly enough to sign up. Encouraging drug taking to break records is dangerous and reckless. It’s an insult to clean athletes.
GEORGIE PARKER: It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting with my 68-year-old aunty who’s come down to Adelaide from Sydney for Gather Round.
We sold rugby league to the yanks as the toughest sport on the planet. If we take away the kick-off return - for safety reasons - then we will have removed one of the best gladiatorial aspects of our game.
The Enhanced Games will encourage athletes to push their bodies past peak performance and endurance to break records — and, of course, for money. What’s different? Performance enhancing drugs are encouraged.
Building a team is like building a family it needs to be based on trust and love. In my short time here in India coaching the best cricketers on the planet this what I have learnt.
Kysaiah Pickett's high contact with Jake Soligo will be looked at by the MRO after Melbourne's 15-point AFL win over Adelaide in the Gather Round opener.
Losing a Cricket Australia contract is not the end of the world but Ashton Agar is facing some tough choices on what type of cricketer he wants to be if he wants to represent his nation again.
If I was booed every time I walked into the office, I’d want out. But Latrell Mitchell is facing this every time he takes the field and it has the sinister feel of the Adam Goodes racism saga.
I’m sick of myopic penny-pinching State Governments backing away from big events and major sports infrastructure. Apart from being just plain embarrassing, it makes no financial sense at all.
The AFL is no stranger to feuding teammates — in a team of 40 blokes it’s just not possible that everyone will get along.
Candice Warner’s observation there was nobody to replace her husband David has proved to be as factual as it was controversial. Sheffield Shield’s version of “I’m an Opener … Get Me In There” has been a flop.
The Brisbane Lions insist there are no internal divisions at the club, amid claims a divisive off-season trip is behind their slow AFL start.