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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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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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'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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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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