You or we might be in jail under similar circumstances, but the kid glove treatment was given to St. George Illawarra Dragons players Tim Lafai and Siliva Havili. Ignoring the sage and age-old advice that alcohol and rugby players is a bad combination, the two were involved in an adult beverage-fueled brawl last year in…

It seemed more like a baseball score that a football score, yet the fact remains that it was a soccer game that found the Western Sydney Wanderers on the wrong side of a 6 – 1 humiliation by the Urawa Red Diamonds. The loss eliminated the Wanderers from the Asian Champions League competition, leaving them…

Delly and fellow Aussie teammate Thon Maker were not equal to the challenge of playing the Toronto Raptors on Toronto’s home court and the Milwaukee Bucks suffered a dispiriting 118 – 93 loss that puts the Raptors within one win of clinching their first round NBA playoff series. The two teams will now return to…

We are not alone in scratching our heads over the vagaries that the game of rugby presents, such as the recent news that NRL forwards Chris McQueen and Chris Heighington have been drafted by Wayne Bennet to play an international Test against Samoa on the English rugby squad in Sydney next month. Who will fill…

Could the light at the end of the tunnel that is known as the Tigers’ Tunnel of Futility is becoming visible? They beat the Canterbury Bulldogs, capitalising on a mental error by Bulldogs backrower Greg Eastwood, to post an 18 – 12 win at ANZ Stadium yesterday afternoon. With five minutes between fulltime and the…

If you do not like the outcome, change the process, or words to that effect, would seem to be the operating principle for the Hawks and the Swans heading into the fifth round of the 2017 Toyota AFL Premiership competition. More simply: Try something different. Knowing that desperate times call for desperate measures, the two…

Heading into the domestic season, Netball Australia had high hopes of expanding its fan base and creating buzz for the game, but at this point, a labour dispute is roiling the waters and supplying an uncomfortable threat to well-laid league plans. At the heart of a threat by the top players to boycott international matches,…

The first-ever official AFL game ever played outside Australia or New Zealand, one involving premiership points, may not come off as planned should the historic match between Port Adelaide and Gold Coast scheduled for May 14 in Shanghai be relocated to the Sun’s Metricon Stadium out of a concern over rising political tensions on the…

Was it case of second thoughts, possibly third, fourth, or fifth thoughts? The Melbourne Storm seems to have lost interest in Kieran Foran, choosing not to seek the mercurial Warriors’ five-eighth. The Storm’s Coach, Craig Bellamy, never one to shun a challenge, expressed interest and seemed to be of the belief that he could add…

The changes made to the setups of Formula One racecars, designed to increase fan appeal with higher speed through the turns, have seemingly worked out much to the liking of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, as he won again, this time in the Bahrain Grand Prix. The third race of the season once again was a…