'Mental Toughness' is the most important farce in modern sport.
After ability to actually play the game, I would argue that mental toughness is the second most important aspect to an athlete’s success...
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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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Kane Lambert was The Rug
In the Coen Brothers’ masterpiece The Big Lebowski, The Dude was perturbed when he was attacked in his home by two enforcers for a man...
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Paddy The Baddy Could Become The Biggest Combat Athlete in The World
‘What is this guy that looks like a dead ringer for Jay from The Inbetweeners doing in my YouTube recommended videos and why does it look...
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The loss to Gold Coast is why Richmond cannot win the Premiership.
I sent a text to a few people just before the bounce yesterday evening that was to the effect of “if we win this with all the outs, we...
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Can we talk about the footy please?
I had a few openings in mind for this article. The first was an opening story about Edwin Valero, one of the best super flyweights and...
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The 5 Most Box Office Players in the AFL
What does it mean to be box office? To me it means that you will sit down and watch something for the sole reason that someone is in it....
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Explaining the second third of the AFL season through Godfather Trilogy Quotes
At about the one third mark of this AFL season I wrote up an article where my gimmick was that I would try to explain the first third of...
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The Most Underrated Fight of Muhammad Ali's Carrer
The 6-year anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s death fell last Friday. In memory of "The Greatest" I thought that I would recount what I view...
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The Rise of the Undisputed Champion
The rap on boxing since the age of the super promoter/manager has been, essentially, the best never fight the best. When Don King and Bob...
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Who are the 7 scariest AFL Players to play against?
I watched Goodfellas for roughly the millionth time this week in honour of the great Ray Liotta, who recently passed. There’s a scene...
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Richmond’s loss to Sydney hurt. It felt so good.
I watched the Tigers play Sydney in Tiger Heartland: The Corner Hotel on Swan Street. I was catching up with a couple of friends and the...
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Should the Demons worry about what happened to the Phoenix Suns?
I have a pretty tangential interest in the NBA. I like it. The sport itself is unbelievable and the athletes who play it are, in my view,...
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How does the Sam Fisher incident happen
My girlfriend is away at the moment, so I was watching On The Couch on Monday night on the big TV. I made myself a chilli and fennel...
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The Light and Dark of Tyson Fury
It has been said that all of life is in boxing. From dark, to light, to everything in between. Few fighters have embodied this more than...
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2022 AFL Trade Value Column
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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The first third of the 2022 AFL Season told through Batman quotes
With round 8 just gone, we are roughly one third of the way through the 2022 AFL season. Generally, it’s been a fairly lacklustre season...
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Is Josh Gibcus football's John McClane
I am 25 years old as I sit down, ignoring work, to write this. Some quick maths will tell you that I was not alive in the 1980’s. I...
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What Makes Canelo so Compelling?
The list of the biggest PPV stars in combat sports probably has Conor McGregor at the top, even now. After that you could make an...
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My Relationship with Football Hasn't Been the Same Since 2017
There have been a few watershed moments in my life so far: when I watched The Godfather for the first time; when Richo kicked the winning...
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Are Fighting Sports Doing More For Female Athletes Than Any Major Sport?
The boxing gym that I train at is just a suburban gym but it’s out in the northern suburbs so it’s pretty large. Nothing is special about...
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