Basketball

Parting Words…

Today’s sportsmen and women like entertainers do not always have the opportunity to sign off their careers in the way they would like. Maybe that is a downsides of the careers they choose. Maybe when it comes to sports stars

Crossing The Line – Politics and Sport

“It used to be all about winning,” those were the words uttered by a top athlete from the United States about sport in his era, the 1980’s. “Now it’s about entertainment,” he added with a tone of regret. Few would

What Is A National Sport?

The term ‘our national sport’ has been bandied around a fair bit in the Australian media and also the international media in the past fortnight, but what is a national sport? Does giving a sport a name that includes the

Podcast #98 – The “Twisties,” Parent Involvement, and A Look at Tokyo

Not the Footy Show Podcast

It has been a while between shows and we apologise for that but Ashley had commentary duties in Tokyo. Hopefully you listened to his updates from the Olympic Games, and we hope that this show was worth the wait. In

Is Anyone Paying The Piper?

Talk to anyone who was in Tokyo and what they experienced was very different to what was shared with the World. One of the clearest things to come out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games is that as