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Fresh from playing alongside All Blacks legend Richie McCaw on Wednesday, Cameron Smith is refusing to look back as he bids to rebound from the worst week of his illustrious career with a watershed Australian Open triumph in Sydney. Reduced to tears after missing the… Read More »‘It hurts’: Smith out for revenge at Australian Open after PGA shocker, delivers hilarious Richie McCaw sledge

The untimely death of colourful football coach Terry Venables will mean many things to many people. For Australian sports / football followers, fans, players, pundits, aficionados, the memories of that infamous night at the MCG between the Socceroos and Iran (26 years ago this Wednesday)… Read More »The death of El Tel makes the anniversary of Socceroos’ 1997 shock more painful than usual

I start this article with a cricket story, as you do. A few years ago, I was at a university cricket club, one of the oldest student clubs on campus. We played in the Sydney Shires competition, were quite competitive and successful, things were looking… Read More »How the west was lost again: Rugby’s battler club suffers another blow and this one could be fatal

Indian police in Kashmir have arrested seven university students under tough anti-terrorism laws for alleged intimidation after they celebrated Australia’s victory over India in the Cricket World Cup final. Police said Tuesday that the students were arrested following “anti-India sloganeering and intimidation of others who… Read More »‘Fear and paranoia’: Indian cops arrest students for celebrating Australia’s CWC win, citing anti-terrorism laws