http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ Sport: The Australian Disease en Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:16:00 GMT Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:16:00 GMT info@sportingaustralia.com info@sportingaustralia.com http://www.sportingaustralia.com/images/gooddisplay1.JPG http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ http://www.sportingaustralia.com/mohamed-bin-hammam/ In an interview screened on The World Game, SBS's excellent football program, Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam made an extraordinary pronouncement: he wants the Wellington Phoenix to be... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/mohamed-bin-hammam/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/mohamed-bin-hammam/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:16:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/india-2008/ If all contemporary test series between Australia and India are memorable, what is this most recent encounter going to be remembered for? Will it be remembered for the rise of... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/india-2008/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/india-2008/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:40:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/bledisloe-cup/ Last Saturday, the Wallabies and All Blacks took part in an historic encounter in Hong Kong. It was an occasion worthy of both celebration and damnation. On the negative side... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/bledisloe-cup/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/bledisloe-cup/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:01:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/north-queensland-fc/ "What's in a name?" Juliet famously asked Romeo. Although Ms Capulet would beg to differ, the answer, as far as embryonic sporting organisations are concerned, is plenty. This is a... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/north-queensland-fc/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/north-queensland-fc/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:15:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ryan-okeefe/ Desirous of returning to Melbourne, but fearful of being summoned to Adelaide or Perth, Ryan O'Keefe has ended up where he began: Sydney. Even the most parochial Swans' supporter would... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ryan-okeefe/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ryan-okeefe/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:45:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/league/ Of late, a financial flu has started spreading around the world. It is highly contagious, capable of travelling rapidly, infecting indiscriminately and striking down even those who once seemed flushed... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/league/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/league/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:55:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/test-cricket/ Twenty20 cricket has turned out to be something of a Hydra: whenever tournaments are cancelled, or teams are forced to withdraw, there always seems to be two to take their... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/test-cricket/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/test-cricket/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:52:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/nicky-carle/ Let us declare it official: Nicky Carle is the Peter Hewat of Australian football. In May 2007, Hewat was famously omitted from a 59 man training squad that then-Wallabies coach... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/nicky-carle/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/nicky-carle/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:07:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/adelaide-united/ Whichever way you look at it, the mathematics doesn't make pleasant reading for Adelaide United. Tomorrow, when the Reds take on Newcastle at Hindmarsh Stadium, they will be playing their... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/adelaide-united/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/adelaide-united/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:32:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ben-cousins/ Nothing could be more heart-warming than a tale of redemption. Only the most unsympathetic of fellows would deny a troubled soul a second chance. We all make mistakes. Nobody's perfect... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ben-cousins/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/ben-cousins/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:05:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/fair-play/ What, exactly, does Kossie have against the human body? If Sydney FC coach John Kosmina isn't choking players, he's putting his foot in his mouth with alarming regularity. His latest... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/fair-play/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/fair-play/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:24:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/western-sydney-football-club/ If you build it, will they come? This is the dilemma facing the AFL, as it plans to introduce a new team to western Sydney in time for the 2012... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/western-sydney-football-club/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/western-sydney-football-club/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:02:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/michael-voss/ Rugby fans: imagine, if you will, the following scenario. With the Tri Nations delicately poised, and with the Bledisloe Cup on the line, the Australian Rugby Union decides to take... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/michael-voss/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/michael-voss/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:30:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/greg-bird/ During the time of Stalin, it was the fate of many senior Bolsheviks to fall foul of the Great Father of the Soviet Union. Typically, these ex-leaders would not merely... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/greg-bird/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/greg-bird/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:44:00 GMT http://www.sportingaustralia.com/australian-boomers/1/ And so, like the Olyroos before them, the Boomers have been bounced out of Beijing. But how different the circumstances. The Olyroos played meekly and unimaginatively, so that not only... http://www.sportingaustralia.com/australian-boomers/1/#comments http://www.sportingaustralia.com/australian-boomers/1/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:46:00 GMT