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Leigh Matthews: Bowing out of the game (gettyimages.com)

AFL: End of the line for 'Lethal' Leigh Matthews, the Lion of Aussie Rules football

AFL legend and coach of the Brisbane Lions, "Lethal" Leigh Matthews, has decided to call it quits af....

Australian Football  |  September 02, 2008  |  43 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Andrew Symonds: Was told he didn't need to be at the meeting (gettyimages.com)

You naughty Roy! Symonds sent home, but are Cricket Australia being too harsh?

Poor old Roy is in trouble again. Andrew Symonds has been sent home from the Bangladesh tour of Darw....

Cricket  |  September 01, 2008  |  104 Views  |  (2) Comments
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Sally McLellan and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep enjoy the moment (gettyimages.com)

Beijing 2008: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

The Games of the XXIX Olympiad have been run and won – or lost – and as we sadly wave them farewell,....

August 25, 2008  |  1803 Views  |  (2) Comments
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Usain Bolt: Fantastic freak of nature (gettyimages.com)

Usain Bolt's greatest achievement... putting Michael Phelps in the shade

Usain Bolt is officially a freak. He has backed up his complete demolition of the world’s best 100 m....

August 21, 2008  |  716 Views  |  (4) Comments
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Liu Xiang limps away from his Olympic dream (gettyimages.com)

Did the weight of Chinese expectation prove too much for Liu Xiang?

Pressure is a funny thing. Some athletes feed on it and use it to lift them to a higher plane, but f....

August 18, 2008  |  650 Views  |  (4) Comments
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Michael Phelps or Carl Lewis the greatest athlete ever? Get real, America!

I was lucky enough to have seen Mark Spitz win his seven gold medals in Munich in 1972 and my father....

August 17, 2008  |  644 Views  |  (4) Comments
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God, what a sprinter! Lightning Bolt strikes Olympic gold with fastest 100m of all time

It is one of the most watched events at any Olympic Games - and the winner earns the right to wear t....

August 16, 2008  |  535 Views  |  (0) Comments
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ICC's about-turn on Twenty20 hits Australia v South Africa for six

For a while now, lovers of Test cricket have been watching the progress of the upstart Twenty20 comp....

Cricket  |  August 16, 2008  |  132 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Speedo merchants: The revolutionary new swimwear (gettyimages.com)

Is the Michael Phelps world-record gold rush down to skill or swimwear technology?

Only three and a bit days into the Olympic swimming programme and it’s becoming increasingly obvious....

All Sports  |  August 12, 2008  |  20226 Views  |  (50) Comments
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Heart-breaking: Derek Redmond is helped by his dad (gettyimages.com)

The top 10 Olympic moments that transcended sport

Some of the most memorable Olympic moments have had very little to do with sporting brilliance. One ....

August 05, 2008  |  1066 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Nadia Comaneci: Hit new levels of perfection (gettyimages.com)

The TOP TEN greatest Olympic moments

Well, they’re almost here. The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are about to start and, after putting up w....

August 04, 2008  |  30870 Views  |  (20) Comments
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The old and the new: Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge (gettyimages.com)

Juan Antonio Samaranch and the curious case of why China bagged the Olympics

Hands up anyone who’s really surprised that the Chinese government is continuing to block full inter....

All Sports  |  July 31, 2008  |  245 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Captain Vaughany on the burning deck (gettyimages.com)

The Good Ship England holed below the waterline - Aussie and South African pirates stand by for boarding

Captain Vaughany stood on the bridge of HMS English Cricket and slowly shook his head. The once prou....

Cricket  |  July 26, 2008  |  83 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Greg Norman: Can he hold on to win the British Open? (gettyimages.com)

Greg Norman sinks his teeth into The Open - and proves there's life in the old Shark

Most men, if their wife is out of the room, will tell you that their sporting ambitions died on thei....

Golf  |  July 20, 2008  |  82 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Tour de France: As controversial as ever (gettyimages.com)

One sure-fire way to stop Tour de France riders taking drugs

The fact that Christian Prudhomme hasn’t gone over the edge and turned in to an axe-wielding psycho ....

Cycling  |  July 18, 2008  |  89 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Mohammad Asif: Self-destructive behaviour (gettyimages.com)

The sad case of Mohammad Asif and Pakistan's dopey cricket regime

It doesn’t really come as a surprise that Mohammad Asif is on the wrong end of a drug controversy – ....

Cricket  |  July 17, 2008  |  108 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Have eco-activists sounded the death knell for Formula 1? (gettyimages.com)

Formula 1 is in a race for survival – but spare us the sight of Lewis Hamilton in a Toyota Prius

If you listen closely you can just hear it. Like the rumble of an approaching storm, the opening sal....

Motorsport  |  July 16, 2008  |  108 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Sunil Gavaskar: Sense and sensitivity (gettyimages.com)

Divide and rule: With the ICC, it's just not cricket

Fans of Test cricket finally have something to ease that growing sense of dread that has been creepi....

Cricket  |  July 08, 2008  |  85 Views  |  (0) Comments
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Sunil Gavaskar: Another attack on the Aussies (gettyimages.com)

Grasping Gavaskar's outrageous spin on Shane Warne and the IPL stinks of hypocrisy

Sunil Gavaskar has set new records for the speed in which he has rewritten history. The spotlights h....

Cricket  |  June 20, 2008  |  280 Views  |  (2) Comments
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John McEnroe: The big top of tennis (gettyimages.com)

Roger Federer the best ever? You cannot be serious!

With the exception of the French Open, Roger Federer has pretty much dominated men’s tennis for most....

Tennis  |  June 14, 2008  |  182 Views  |  (2) Comments
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Lewis Hamilton: Revving mad (gettyimages.com)

Formula 1 hint for Lewis Hamilton: There are some red-light districts where you really should stop

It’s a horrible feeling. You’re sitting quietly at the traffic lights, minding your own business, wh....

Motorsport  |  June 10, 2008  |  1556 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Stuart MacGill: Rehearsing for the circus? (gettyimages.com)

Australia's Stuart MacGill a decent spinner? Pull the other leg!

The International Association of Fence Picket Manufacturers has declared a day of mourning to mark t....

Cricket  |  June 03, 2008  |  161 Views  |  (3) Comments
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Boundaries galore: But is the sky the limit for IPL? (gettyimages.com)

Bollywood nights: Has IPL turned cricket into a 'sixy' beast?

It’s over and we’ve survived. The inaugural season of the IPL has been run and won and we can put th....

Cricket  |  June 04, 2008  |  476 Views  |  (1) Comments
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Don Bradman: Unequalled genius (gettyimages.com)

Bradman is cricket's greatest batsman of all time - past, present and future

Rightly or wrongly, batsmen are the glamour boys of cricket. Although the input of bowlers is just a....

Cricket  |  May 26, 2008  |  827 Views  |  (4) Comments
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Bhajji bother: How the threat of Singh Singh hangs over Harbhajan