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Sassing the boss is a poor career choice in most instances, unless your work for a company or corporation that specialises in generating trash-talk for use by others and your title is Executive Vice President of Sass, but we have yet to see that title on the hierarchy chart of…Read More

Would it be a novel suggestion to suggest that the way toturn the Wallabies around is to find better players? If anyone believes in Christmas miracles and that the Wallabies will contend for the 2019 World Cup in Japan simply by getting rid of Cheika and his assistants must admit…Read More

It might seem to some that it is far too early to raise the stress level concerning the 2019 State of Origin series, but those are the sort who wait until the last minute to do their Boxing Day shopping, when everyone knows that the hunt truly begins the day…Read More

The Irish are not fond of long goodbyes. The announcement of a departure for any reason is typically met with, “Well, off with you then.” Yet, Ireland rugby coach Joe Schmidt, as a New Zealander, is probably unaware of the Irish fondness for brevity, something of a surprise, since it…Read More

The top name in the Australian Open, America’s Matt Kuchar, reported that it was the Australian wind, not the long flight that did him in for the 2018 Australian Open. Kuchar was born in Florida, a place that has a healthy reputation for wind during Atlantic hurricane season, so he…Read More

It is once again time to sound the clarion call that the All Blacks’ rugby dominance is at its end. Seems as though this claim never lacks for voices. If it were we, we would be saying it only on the assumption that if something is said enough times over…Read More

Draft speculation is one form of speculative activity that has truly grown in significance as the result of all the fantasy furor. The coming draft for the Toyota 2019 AFL Premiership competition is offering some scenarios that even the quants would salivate over. Carlton has the first pick and given…Read More

Once again, we find ourselves pondering the imponderable. Why can a jockey receive a suspension for careless riding, but the results of the race remain unchanged? Today, we have to ask why Hugh Bowman received a suspension of a month over three charges related to his ride on Marmelo in…Read More

It is early in the 2018 – 2019 season, but LeBron James is tired of losing, although he is cashing the cheques the Los Angeles Lakers are giving him. LeBron typically waits nearer the end of the season, so that he can lose when it matters most, but that is…Read More

To his schoolteacher and boxer resume, Jeff Horn can add attorney for the plaintive to his list of accomplishments, saying recently to The Courier-Mail, “I will definitely be looking at the contract to see if I can impose some sort of penalty for Mundine disappearing overseas.” Mundine did not actually…Read More