The Problem with AFL Football

Australian Rules Football, Australia’s indigenous game. Never before has the game been been faster, players as skilful, stadiums more comfortable, playing surfaces as pristine, sports science as relevant, had a greater number of clubs, been so comprehensively covered across all media formats and coaching departments so large.

So why is the game, at the moment so, so…well so unwatchable?

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Quidditch for Muggles

Yep; you read the title right. Since 2005, countless colleges across the US (and beyond) have adapted the Harry Potter-based sport into something played on a grass field with a kitchen appliance grasped between your thighs. It’s real sport, folks, with real rules, real college teams, and real tournaments. Can you spell world cup for quidditch?

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Australian Sport’s Day of Shame

AFL CEO Andrew DemetriouJust a few short weeks ago yours truly wrote a blog about Lance Armstrong and how his scandal was just another in a long list of scandals that is ruining sport.

To that list you can now add Australian sport, well Australian professional sport at the very least. A year long secret investigation by the Australian Crime Commission has found evidence of systematic, doping, corruption and infiltration by organized crime.

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LANCE ARMSTRONG - JUST ANOTHER SCANDAL THAT IS RUINING SPORT

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal has rocked cycling and the world of sport to its foundations. Armstrong’s calculated, methodical use of EPO and other banned performance enhancing substances during his cycling career has destroyed his reputation and tarnished the Tour De France forever.

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Wimbledon 2011: Remembering John Isner and Nicolas Mahut's 'endless match'

Today marks precisely one year since the most astonishing match in tennis history, a contest that will live long in the memory of anyone who witnessed any part of it.

When American 21^st seed John Isner drew French qualifier Nicolas Mahut in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon championships, he must have expected a relatively easy passage through to the next stage. As the match entered its fifth set, however, the score remained at two sets each with Isner clawing back the fourth on a tie-break. At this stage, he would just have been grateful to take the game to a second day as the players left the court due to fading light at 9.07pm.

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