Is the NRL salary cap an “illegal cartel”?
I can only assume that op-ed pundit/pop historian Peter FitzSimons must have been wrapping his trademark red vanity hijab too tightly around his head and...
Responding to the Haka
It was a sign of things to come perhaps. As the All Blacks performed their pre-match war dance with its stamping, grunting, eye-bulging and tongue...
The truly national footie code?
I grew up playing rugby union and rugby league in northern beaches Sydney. But you couldn't call rugby (union) Australia's national game, especially after tonight's...
Adam Smith on Science, Paul Krugman on intellectual charlatans: Speech to CSIRO science leaders
A few weeks ago, on the 30th of Sept to be precise, I gave a speech to 'science leaders' in CSIRO. Science leaders are early...
Sonny Bill and the fiendish frogs
What a lot of nonsense has been talked about the defection to French rugby of rugby league star Bobby Sue Billy Jo Sonny Bill Williams! First,...
Nitpicking Aussie Robbie
Robbie Deans' tweaked team lineup for the upcoming second rugby test against France seems pretty sound to me. Neither speedster Lachie Turner for the injured Tuqiri nor Stephen Hoiles...
Search for an intelligent ex-front rower
For rugby fans who've been watching with increasingly frustrated bemusement Ewen McKenzie's bizarre coaching of the NSW Waratahs to play stereotypical 10 man rugby despite boasting...