SOME people say that the US is always blamed for what happens in the Middle East. And they argue that laying blame in such a manner is not really justified.[...]
OVER in England, cricket captains and authorities are beating their heads about the use of video technology to keep umpiring mistakes to a minimum. Last week, in New Zealand, a[...]
IF YOU live in Melbourne for any length of time, you will invariably end up at an Australian rules football match. That is if you have any degree of curiosity[...]
IN AUSTRALIA, as in many other countries, the use of recreational drugs is illegal. Yet the Australia Football League, the body that administers Australian rules football nationally, knows and hides[...]
THE last time Australia lost six Tests in a row, it lost a captain with the fifth of those losses. That was Kim Hughes who wept openly at a press[...]
BACK in March, when Australia played India in a Test series, the Decision Review System, the use of technology to query on-field umpiring decisions, was not used because India had[...]
THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a government-funded entity which operates on the lines of the BBC. It provides some of the better media content in the country, but this is[...]
SINCE when did cricketers — or any other sportsmen for that matter — become the moral compass of the people? Since when was it wrong to do anything that passed[...]
WHEN sport comes along, major sport that is, international contests, everything else is pushed to the background in Australia. And you can’t get bigger than the Ashes, the contest for[...]
SO Egypt’s mild flirtation with democracy a la West is over. And it is unlikely to ever return. It’s happened on a good day too – the US celebrates its[...]