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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…

It is indeed fortunate that we do not require much from our thumbs in submitting these words for your perusal. That reality permits us to preserve our opposable digits for the upcoming release of video game developer Wicked Witch’s AFL Evolution. The game is still over three weeks from the official May 5 release, but…

The Wests Tigers have signed forward Chris McQueen on a three-year deal beginning in 2018 and concluding in 2023, as the Gold Coast Titans will see a player going through the motions for the rest of the season, joining many clubs in a similar pickle due to the NRL’s bizarre policy of permitting in-season player…

In a prime example of revenue-driven sports run amuck, the National Hockey League is set to embark on a seemingly endless series of playoff games designed to determine the 2017 Stanley Cup Champions. Sixteen teams out of the league’s 30 qualified. It is tempting to ask, why not just let them all in? At least…

Geelong Cats forward Harry Taylor is certainly not having the sort of beginning of the season he may have envisioned, but with Geelong winning its first three games, he seems to be willing to give himself some time to adapt to the new role in which he has been thrust to this point of the…

Just ahead of the final round of the 2017 Masters in Augusta, Georgia, Adam Scott is lurking near the top of the leaderboard with only six players and three shots separating him from the top. If he is anything like the us hackers, he is no doubt engaging in the old “what if” game when…

Whilst it is certainly true that we ourselves do not possess the opposable thumbs skills to derive much in the way of adrenaline or enjoyment from video games, we would not deny that there are legions who do, so footy fans now have the anticipation of a May 5 release date for the latest version…