The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian Sport has finally been released (read it here) and it’s causing quite a stir in this sports-mad country of ours.
As Bernard Keane reported in yesterday’s Crikey Daily Mail:
[The report] has in effect called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away from elite [...]

Combat sports have always made easy fodder for mainstream media pundits, so a multi-million-dollar outfit like the UFC hitting our shores was always going to attract more than its fair share of fist waving and moral indignation. But I didn’t expect it to start so early.