A love letter to the Socceroos
I barrack for Richmond in the AFL. After an extremely dark period, we have had a lot of success recently. I only say that to set the...
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THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Just another guy watching games and thinking things
THE GUY WHO LIKES SPORT
Who am I?
I'm just another guy who thinks his takes on various sports and pop culture are worth listening to. Are they? Probably not, but I need somewhere to air them. Yet another Bill Simmons impression. Anyway. I have a law degree, work a corporate job and wish there was something else that I could be doing.
This is that something.
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Taranto, Hopper, and The Power of First Impressions
The oldest rule in screenwriting is that the audience always falls in love with the first person they meet. The fifth oldest rule is that...
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Influencer Boxing: Just Another Marvel Movie?
Wanna hear something sad? Two of my great loves, cinema and boxing, are being destroyed in basically the same way. Both have always been...
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What if David Morrell Jr Tested Positive?
This past weekend, boxing suffered yet another tragedy that can be directly linked to the incompetence of everyone surrounding the...
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Jake Paul is Good for Combat Sports
I have never watched a Jake Paul fight. In fact, I might never have watched a Jake Paul YouTube video. At 26, I am 8 - 12 years too old...
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Memento and The Trade Period Industrial Complex
I watched Chris Nolan’s Memento for the first time the other night. Pretty good. It was interesting because, even though I watched it...
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Boxing's Series of Unfortunate Events: Part 2 - Benn v Eubank Jr Edition
Now let’s talk about the most demoralising part of this last month. This one has been so bad that it gets its own article (you can find...
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Boxing's Series of Unfortunate Events: Part 1
Being a boxing fan is like being in the worst, most toxic relationship of your life but with a person who is way out of your league. They...
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AFL Trade Value Column: Trade Period Edition
Who’s the most valuable player in the AFL on the trade table? Not the best, not the best young player, not the best key forward. Who is...
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5 Top Gun Quotes to Explain the AFL Finals
Just less than a week after the end of the AFL season, I decided to write up my own wrap of the finals in the only way I know how –...
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Equalisation Deniers: Why the Grand Final is being played between 2 sides of the same coin
The AFL has taken a lot from the NFL – music in down times, twilight finals, and abdicating responsibility for brain injuries acquired by...
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Boxing is No Country for Middle-Aged Men
Well, it finally came. And then it went, with barely a whimper. This third fight of the Canelo vs GGG trilogy will not go next to Leonard...
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Canelo v GGG III Preview
Those of us who care deeply about boxing are excited, once again, this Sunday afternoon on DAZN PPV. I would argue that the Canelo...
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What the AFLPA needs to fight for
The AFL finally has their shiny new broadcast rights deal. On Tuesday afternoon it was announced that the incumbent duo, channel 7 and...
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Who is most likely to win the premiership from here?
Well, that was some kind of start. I’m only 25 years old so I don’t know if that was the greatest weekend of football in history, what I...
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We Don't All Get a Fairytale
In the other hemisphere, a divided nation was being brought together for the first time in what feels like an eternity. The whole of the...
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Why Not Us?
Do you know what I have been asking myself about this year? It’s a big question, hard to answer a lot of the time but it’s especially...
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Usyk's Coronation
Oleksandr Usyk defended his three pieces of heavyweight title this week by continuing his excellence over Anthony Joshua. Over 24 rounds...
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Joshua vs Usyk 2: Preview
There was a time when a fight like the one that is happening on Sunday morning (AEST) would have stopped the world. Largely because of...
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I am grateful for players like Shane Edwards and Robbie Gray
In American sports, especially American football, athleticism normally wins (except at the quarterback position - but even there the game...
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