At the end of another extraordinary sporting year,it’s time to celebrate the best and worst athletes,moments and quotes from 2024.
The success of Gout Gout demonstrates the virtues that Peter Norman,Tommie Smith and John Carlos were on about way back in 1968.
Next week,world football’s governing body will sign off on the Saudi bid to host the 2034 World Cup. They’re selling it as a catalyst for human rights reform in the Kingdom. Rubbish.
Two down and two to go - come on you Wallabies!
Hold me back,but it seems like everything is again pointing in the right direction for the team in green and gold.
David Campese was one of the greatest Wallabies,but his latest attack on the game is incorrect.
Just as the Rabbitohs learned with Adam Reynolds and the Wallabies learned with Michael Hooper,a veteran leader isn’t easy to replace.
Let’s put Nathan Cleary on the London/Paris/Buenos Aires rugby circuit instead of the Cronulla/Campbelltown/Canberra NRL one,as fine as those cities are.
When things started going south in the AFL grand final,there was no battle-scared old bastard to hold the others to account.
Lance Franklin is an all-time great of the AFL,but it looks like the Sydney Swans are better without him.
Whatever the Wallabies enduring woes,they have at least shown signs of life under Joe Schmidt that we never saw under Eddie Jones in last year’s endless cluster-ruck.