The Adelaide Crows and the Richmond Tigers get to sit at home, pop a coldie and watch two AFL finals this week in order to learn who their opponents will be when they resume playing in the preliminary finals. In what we consider one of the most egregious miscarriages of justices ever perpetrated in the…

The latest butt down at the scuttle is that Josh Kelly is staying in Sydney for the next two years, as the big money and lengthy contract offer of the North Melbourne Kangaroos was not enough to lure Kelly away from a winning side to one that finished seven slots out of the top eight…

The AFLPA recently held its awards ceremony, and from the looks of it, no one went home empty handed. It almost seems like one of those microbrew beer festivals, where every brewer who supports the festival gets a medal of one sort or another. “Best Australian Pale Ale Packaged in Bottles Only and Distributed Only…

The Greater Western Sydney Giants, thanks to managing to end the home-and-away season of the Toyota 2017 AFL Premiership competition in the top four, gained a reprieve following their first round finals loss to the Adelaide Crows and will seek redemption in the September 16 semifinal against the West Coast Eagles at Spotless Stadium. While…

Those who were hoping for a fairytale ending for the Toyota 2017 AFL Premiership competition had their hopes dashed when the Essendon Bombers, who had to play the 2016 season with top-up players of dubious abilities, made it to the finals this year but could not pull off the equivalent of last year’s Western Bulldogs…

Was it the Brisbane Lions and the West Coast Suns on the Adelaide Oval for the first qualifying final in the Toyota 2017 AFL Premiership competition? The 84 – 48 final score would seem to indicate a game of a very different nature from the one the Crows typically produce. They alone scored more than…

It would seem as though some punter money has been migrating toward the Greater Western Sydney Giants as the bounce for their first round finals game against the Adelaide Crows at the Adelaide Oval is down to a question of hours. The point spread is down from 15.5 to 10.5 and it is hard to…

But for a 10-goal outburst by the Sydney Swans’ Lance Franklin in the final game of the home-and-away season of the Toyota AFL Premiership competitionagainst the Carlton Blues, the 2017 Coleman Medal for the most goals kicked in a season would have gone to Josh Kennedy of the West Coast Eagles. Perhaps if the two…

It is difficult to fathom why an Australian cyclist, any Australian for that matter, would want to flee the friendly confines of Down Under and defect to Russia, but that is exactly the course taken by Shane Perkins. Perkins has been granted Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin, who has been vastly dismayed by the…

It would seem as though the senior citizen discount is not far distant in the future of Cameron Smith, as he has tied the mark of Brisbane Broncos legend Darren Lockyer for the most games ever played in the NRL. The NRL concluded its 2017 Premiership season with Round 26 and Smith played his 355th…