September 2011
Dead Man Running Why is Kenya’s Sammy Wanjiru – the greatest marathoner of his generation – dead at the age of 24? BY JONATHAN HORN How Do You Stop Sonny Bill? Sonny Bill Williams’ off-load will give...
View ArticleRugby Country
As trips go, nothing beats a footy tour. As Footy tours go, nothing beats a lap around En-Zed, your 2011 Rugby World Cup host.
View ArticleHow Good Is Jack Darling
Jack Darling has become a remarkable rookie story in what has already been a season to remember for the West Coast Eagles.
View ArticleHarry Mclaren
It’s time this innovator was given the recognition he deserves for bringing us the surf ski.
View ArticleParaGliding with Lloyd Pennicuik
Like with most sporting events sponsored by Red Bull, the X-Alps is one hell of a race.
View ArticleDrinks With Tom Carroll
Mention the name Tom Carroll to a surf nut and the word you’ll likely hear back is “power”.
View ArticleOctober 2011
CONFESSIONS OF A GROUPIE Footballers and their groupies – it’s the most sordid soap opera in Australian sport. But exactly who’s screwing who here? BY JONATHAN HORN FREAK SHOW Often brilliant,...
View ArticleFollowing The Leader
Having prided itself on existing as a sports fan-type entity, how is ESPN handling life as The Establishment?
View ArticleNovember 2011
THE ENIGMA Racing types say Bart Cummings is unknowable, his methods mysterious. But there’s no mystery to his success. He’s simply got his priorities right – he listens to the horses. BY JONATHAN HORN...
View ArticleHow Good Is James McDonald
Teenage prodigy. Boom rookie. Next big thing. These are phrases generally attached to Kiwi jockey James McDonald.
View ArticleDrinks With Craig Parry
For the man known as “Pazz”, the ’98 Cup ranks with career high points that include 23 career victories worldwide and every significant title in Australian golf,
View ArticleHoop Nightmares
With the NBA’s players and owners unable to agree on the division of money, the possibility of a lost 2011-12 season has become very real.
View ArticleBaseball With Luke Hughes
The Western Australia-born dynamo has just finished his second season in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins, where he ground through a 162-game campaign …
View ArticleReel Deal
Modern Anglers can thank watchmaker Jasper R. Dell Hull for those easy weekend castoffs
View ArticleDecember 2011
TESTING TIMES The explosion of designer drugs has opened a whole new front in the war on doping. Can the good guys keep pace? BY JOHN KRON THE EXCEPTION Ryan Harris breaks every rule in the fast...
View ArticleDangerous Games
You’ll struggle to find better bike racing than that at Malaysia’s Sepang Circuit. With full respect to the late Marco Simoncelli, of course.
View ArticleHow Good Is Steve Solomon
A late bloomer in the world of junior athletics, Solomon is only now starting to make an impact on the senior scene
View ArticleSeeing Zeros
Twenty years from now, one suspects we won’t still be awaiting the billion-dollar athlete
View ArticleDrinks With Damien Fleming
While the cricketing world obsessed over tall quicks who dug the ball in and hit the bat hard, Fleming cantered in off a short run and bowled big hooping outies best viewed through sepia tint.
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