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Pre-season Brownlow Medal speculation has been replaced with cold, hard reality after six rounds of the 20156 AFL season. Last year’s winner, Nat Fyfe, appears out for the season with another broken left leg. He had a nice start to the season, one of the few Dockers who could legitimately make such a claim, based…

How would you have liked to have a hundred at season’s beginning on the proposition of Leicester winning the English Premier League? Had you done that, you would be staring straight into the face of a $500,000 payday. The Leicester players did not even have to kick a ball to earn the title. It came…

Punters interested in the most competitive Round 7 AFL game will probably find the number two Geelong Cats versus number six West Coast Eagles the best choice on a week when there are some unadulterated walkovers on the fixture. The Cats have the home ground advantage and a $1.45 to $2.75 odds advantage at the…

Mason Cox backed his debut with a two-goal outing for the Collingwood Magpies against the West Coast Eagles, but it was simply not enough to change the outcome as the Eagles turned their home ground of Subiaco Oval into the site of a 62-point win, even though the Magpies looked good in the second and…

Despite being the beneficiaries of what some, especially Crows supporters, claim as preferential officiating in the Round 5 win by 2015 premiers Hawthorn, the Hawks find themselves in what is, for them, unaccustomed territory with four other teams ahead of them on the ladder. Some are describing a couple of crucial calls as pure larceny…

Mason Cox’s success in his recent AFL debut may have paved the way for other Americans to venture into Aussie Rules football, even though the vast majority of those who witnessed Cox’s impressive start with the Magpies and also attended the AFL’s scouting combine in Los Angeles had not only never played rules, they were…

There seems to be at least a bit of dissention in the ranks of Fijian athletics. First, there was the proclamation of numero uno, the Big Fijian himself, Vijay Singh, eschewing the opportunity to represent his country at the Rio Olympics. Probably just as well, since the pace Singh employs to follow his missed putts…

Rafael Nadal won his ninth Barcelona Open and tied clay court legend Guillermo Vilas for career clay-court titles at 49 titles each. The victory could possibly add to speculation that Nadal has regained the form that deserted him as he battled injuries that seemingly went on forever and once again present a challenge to the…

After encountering some serious backlash over his decision to not play golf and represent Australia in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Adam Scott is finding some support. Some of that support has come in the form of criticism over the Olympic Games having completely abandoned the pretense of amateurs competing for nationalistic glory. Many critics have…

Collingwood v Essendon (3:20pm AEST) Essendon Line +21.5 ($1.91) The last two weeks we’ve made money betting against the Pies, when they’ve started warm favourite and lost comfortably both times. And yet here they are as warm favourite again. It’s never a bad thing to keep betting against a team in bad form, particularly when…