Friends, This morning I shook hands with Dave Edwards. It’s something I normally do when I see him, but this time it was for reasons beyond introductory protocol in predominately western male culture. You see, this morning Ben Shine and I agreed to merge The Sporting Regard with The Public Apology. The decision further readies …
Two-nil down in the Ashes series and it’s fair to say the Aussies are getting pummelled. This is bad news for our cricket team, and even worse news for our country. So how do we save the Ashes, and by extension, our country? Various knee-jerk solutions have been offered, ranging from ‘drop Shane Watson’ to … Continue reading
Two days before the second Ashes Test and Mickey Arthur has laid a big, steaming turd in the middle of the Australian cricket team’s dressing room – and it’s going to be a hard one to clean up. At a time when the Australians need cohesion and every single player hitting their straps, Arthur’s claims … Continue reading
There have been a million and one excuses offered as to why Australia lost the first Test in the Ashes series. The DRS. Michael Clarke’s misuse of the DRS. The Australian top order’s failure to post big runs. Ed Cowan. Stuart Broad being a twat. The list goes on and on. But we’re missing the … Continue reading
The JFK assassination. The moon landing hoax. The diminishing portion sizes served at Oporto. Whatever it is, the Sporting Regard appreciates a good conspiracy theory. While some may dismiss the following as “conspiracy-talk”, you would have to be ozzie the ostrich (or Daryl Summers) not to ackowledge the reality of this frighteningly pervasive undercurrent in … Continue reading
There’s no way around this: in about 20 minutes Australia commences its journey to find out whether we will live or die as a nation. Such are the stratospheric implications of the Ashes, the Sporting Regard is calling on Australia to abandon intellectual notions of balance and sober analysis. Instead, it’s time to embrace and … Continue reading
Godfather of the Vegas bender, inventor of Gonzo journalism and all-round legend Hunter S. Thompson once described sports writers as “a rude & brainless subculture of fascist drunks”. As a man who began and finished his career as a sports journalist, with a shit-tonne of drugs and alcohol sandwiched in between, he is undoubedtly qualified to make such a … Continue reading
The Sporting Regard is on the verge of a comeback, but like all champions returning from knee surgery/summer in Ibiza boozing with their model girlfriends and fellow English Premier League players, we need to sharpen our skills before we’re ready for competition. So we have decided to hold an internal trial match in our most … Continue reading
TSRs inaugural podcast smothers the big issues in typical fashion: raw and inaccurate. Sam Perry and Neil Dix discuss Tim May’s 1998 paperback publication, Israel Folau and the true competition he faces, Toadfish from Neighbours’ technique in the opening credits, and something about drugs. We also failed to humorously discuss Jason Collins’ historic announcement, so … Continue reading
A lot is happening in sport at the moment. TSR explores this blockbuster period through the critical prisms of Ice T and Sheryl Crow. Lehmann, Lions, Jobe and drugs, pretty much. Also Grimace is in it. Continue reading
As any seasoned sports observer will tell you, a crucial element to securing victory is a team or player’s ability and willingness to put in ‘110 per cent’. While the ‘110 per cent’ figure has been long-scoffed at by the opera-fancying, German-poetry reading inner-city intelligentsia (I am looking at you, longest continuously-serving Premier of NSW, … Continue reading
