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Super Rugby is currently experiencing what the NRL and NFL have gone through plenty of in the last few years: a hip-drop drama. Over the weekend, Wallabies hooker Lachlan Lonergan was felled by international teammate Tate McDermott in the game between the Brumbies and Reds,… Read More »A history of hip-drops: What Super Rugby can learn from NRL & NFL to stamp out the most dangerous tackle around

Wests Tigers. NRL finals. It’s too early to put those two terms in the same sentence but their fans can dare to dream once more after the Benjaissance delivered a second straight boilover. Benjolution? Benjovation? There’s something there. And there’s plenty brewing at the Tigers… Read More »NRL Power Rankings: Round 4 – Tigers in finals mix? Panthers’ challengers falling by the wayside, Roosters lay an egg

The T-CUP principle is one that is used throughout sport psychology; and in rugby circles really came to the fore in 2003, with Clive Woodward’s World Cup-winning England team, that clinched the title in extra-time with that drop goal. T-CUP: Thinking Calmly Under Pressure The… Read More »The simple fix that could’ve spared Reds, Tahs GP heartbreak and could prevent it from happening again

For the second race and first road course of 2024, IndyCar tried something new at the Thermal Club Million Dollar Challenge in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. The three-mile course in a gated community wasn’t designed for open-wheel racing and can’t exactly handle a standard points… Read More »IndyCar’s Thermal experiment: Was it worth it, or was it just an expensive ‘headache’?

Most of us have heard the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf, but there’s an unresolved question we never really think about or consider: does the boy seriously deserve to be eaten just for previously telling lies? It just gets accepted by most readers that… Read More »Umpires’ anti-Ginnivan bias has reached a new low – it’s time for the AFL to step in