The Besart Berisha suspension after last week’s A-League football game opens a huge can of worms, the way I see it. If Berisha gets a two-week suspension for pushing a match official in the A League, how come a seventeen-year-old girl gets a twelve-month suspension for unsporting conduct toward an official in a regional third division game. According to the soccer … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2017
Smashed at Gas Chambers
The ocean often plays the role of a trickster as two young women who tried their luck at the Hawaiian North Shore “experts only” surfing spot, Gas Chambers, found out. Cara and Ana paddled out a two person surf kayak at this shallow-breaking, reef-bottomed barrel generator with the gruesome name on what they thought was one of the North Shore’s mild and manageable days. The … [Read more...]
What is an Adolph?
We all know that Adolph was a nasty bugger from the otherwise lovely city of Munich back in the the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s but what is an Adolph in a modern sporting context? King of "sport and politics" Funnily enough, the nasty Adolph despite his own physical ineptitude does have a number of lasting contributions to sport... some that could be regarded as borderline … [Read more...]
Men disrespecting women… again! And its not just AFL players.
The current scandal about the Richmond player who launched a picture of a topless female friend wearing his AFL Grand Final medal on social media, even after she requested for the image to be deleted, continues to bite. Peter Fitzsimons and fellow Channel 9 sports show host, Emma Freedman, went hard at each on the Sunday program after Freedman offered some “just don’t take your … [Read more...]
Is it okay for athletes to take a stand? Is protest okay in sport?
Why US sports stars are taking a knee against Trump NFL players from many teams have knelt or linked arms in protest during the playing of the national anthem. Reuters/Paul Childs Keith Rathbone, Macquarie University US President Donald Trump is continuing his public attacks on prominent black athletes. Late last week, he urged National Football League (NFL) team owners … [Read more...]