Jim Stynes’ journey from the green fields of Gaelic football to the heart and soul of the Melbourne football club was never as tough as the challenge he faces now.
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UFC Australia vs. The Moral Minority: Let’s get it on, c’mon!*
October 20, 2009 – 4:50 pm
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.
Family ties: the curse of sports fans
October 19, 2009 – 8:23 am
A few weeks ago, I did something far worse to my four-year-old son than hitting him with a wooden spoon. I took him to his first football match.
Striking him with a kitchen implement probably wouldn’t cause as much long term mental trauma as introducing him to a world where people agonise about ‘their’ sports team’s [...]
News to quit NRL? Is this good for the game?
October 8, 2009 – 12:06 pm
Would the NRL thrive without the influence of News Ltd?
Do sports journos actually watch sport?
October 7, 2009 – 8:50 am
It happens quite often with every sport — and every fan can remember calling bullshit on a story they’ve seen, heard or read, when it must have seemed that they were at a different game that said journalist.
The Saints who didn’t quite reach heaven
October 2, 2009 – 4:40 pm
What is it like for fans who get so close then fall so far? Nearly one week on, two Saints fans put their continuing grief into words.
A Crikey Sports NRL Grand Final Preview
October 1, 2009 – 12:42 pm
Seven months, 26 rounds of Rugby League, and come Sunday evening it all comes down to to eighty minutes of football in front of a Sold Out ANZ Stadium crowd.
Hitler’s reaction to the AFL grand final
September 29, 2009 – 11:15 pm
As Leigh said, Downfall parodies are the gift that keeps on giving.
1966 is a long time for this Saints supporter
September 24, 2009 – 8:36 am
Ever since St.Kilda was certain of a finals berth this year, I’ve had to reassure my extended family: we only have to win our last game of the year to be Premiers.
Dilshan: better than your imagination
September 24, 2009 – 1:09 am
You know when you have that dream that you are the most Awesomest thing alive.
Either you are a rockstar with men throwing their boxer shorts on stage, a boxer with old white Jewish writers saying you are better than Ali or some politician that fixes the world and also fights off evil aliens.
Everyone has the [...]
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