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After a brief spell on the dole and a break from the pressures incumbent on a NRL coach, sacked Wests Tigers headman Jason Taylor could be on his way to the Sydney Roosters to resume an assistant’s role such as the one he occupied with the Tricolours before his foray with Wests. The slot would…

The 2017 A-League Grand Final is on for Sunday coming and will be played on the turf of the Sydney Football Club at Allianz Stadium. They will face the Melbourne Victory in the 12th Grand Final since the inception of the A-League. AS has been the case with many of the countries’ turf-based sporting venues,…

In terms of complete certainty, the sports management form of Nat Fyfe has dismissed reports suggesting that the 2015 Brownlow Medal winner would be dealt to the St. Kilda Saints. Stride Sports was stridently, perhaps vehemently, dismissive of the reports, categorising them as “100 per cent” false. The word was out that Fyfe would jump…

“Get that German heap out of my way,” or words to that effect, seem to express the sentiments of Sebastian Vettel and F1 Team Ferrari as they have knocked Mercedes from the pole for the upcoming Russian Grand Prix. Vettel’s driving prowess ended a run of 18 consecutive poles, dating back to last season, by…

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…