Jake White: Anti Hero or Smiling Assassin?
When I was was in my early 20s I used to think it was kosher to end a relationship over the phone. This was before Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook … and there was no threat of the scorned woman...
View ArticleWaratahs flog Lions as key players search for Wallaby selection
The Waratahs have looked far from convincing for a better part of the last two seasons under Micheal Chieka’s guidance. Good wins have been punctuated by a lack of consistency that comes with a team...
View ArticleGiteau and O’Connor: The tale of two standards
Ever had a younger sibling who gets away with everything? No matter what you did to impress, the smallest infraction against your parents values would get the sternest condemnations? But all the while...
View ArticleCormier and Lawler are two serious contenders in UFC
UFC 173 had two great fights before the main event. Future hall of famers, knockout artists and top ten fighters all rolled into two fights. Robbie “Ruthless” Lawler (ranked second) versus Jake...
View ArticleMMA debate continues on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night
Phil ‘Buzz’ Rothfield conservative diatribe was on display once again on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night, as the debate about Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in Australia came to the fore. In a bid for...
View ArticleUFC 175: Belfort steps in as ‘The Axe Murderer’ runs from drug test
When covering a sport where competitors are known to their fans as ‘The Axe Murderer’, ‘The Phenom’ or the ‘The American Gangster’, it is not surprising that there is no shortage of drama. Welcome to...
View ArticleWaratahs roll Chiefs at home
The Waratahs came to Taranaki on a mission to chalk up their first win in New Zealand in four years. With the brutal reception the Crusaders handed the Force the night before, the south island’s winter...
View ArticleWaratahs be warned, a Red ambush is imminent
The Queensland Reds’ 2011 success seems so long ago. Once again the proud rugby state flounders at the bottom of the table, but the Waratahs should be on alert. Suncorp is a fortress for the Reds. Much...
View ArticleWho should the Wallabies captain be for the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
While I was a young rugby player I was also an infantry officer in the Australian Army. During the weekdays I would train with other grown men crawling around in the dirt, fostering controlled...
View ArticleNSW Country Eagles vs Greater Sydney Rams: NRC live scores, blog
The NSW Country Eagles will take on the Greater Sydney Rams in the opening round of the National Rugby Championship at Coogee Oval. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 3:00pm (AEST). The...
View ArticleEagles fly past Rams at Coogee
Before kick off at Coogee Oval there was a sense of expectation and resignation as the crowd filed through the gates for the National Rugby Championship clash between the NSW Country Eagles and the...
View ArticleRockhold and Bisping bad blood to be settled in UFC Sydney November 8
The UFC will visit Australia again for the first time is since the memorable card at Brisbane’s Entertainment Centre last year. The event will take place at the All Phones Arena in Sydney. The card...
View ArticleUFC press day in Sydney: A one on one with “The Count”
As a longtime fan of combat sports I have since become cynical when a promoter starts talking about a feud between two fighters. In this era of athletic professionalism boxers and mixed martial artists...
View Article[VIDEO] Queensland Country vs North Harbour Rays: NRC highlights, scores, blog
Queensland Country host the North Harbour Rays in the National Rugby Championship curtain-raiser to the Wallabies’ Test tonight, and it should be another great contest. Join The Roar for live scores...
View ArticleRays survive Queensland Country onslaught on the Gold Coast
If you were cynical about the legitimacy of the new National Rugby Competition and quietly waiting in the bleachers with your red pens and scathing retorts, permit me to ask one favour before you you...
View ArticleSydney’s Mark Hunt to fight on Japan’s UFC main card
One of the great cult heroes of the fight game is a proud Sydneysider. Mark Hunt is a 40-year-old who has been prize fighting combat sports for two decades. He first came to people’s attention in 2001...
View Article[VIDEO] Mark Hunt vs Roy Nelson: UFC highlights, blog, round-by-round updates
The Ultimate Fighting Championship heads to Japan as Mark Hunt takes on Roy Nelson in a heavyweight showdown. Join The Roar for live round-by-round updates of all the action from 5:00pm (AEST). The UFC...
View ArticleMark “Super Samoan” Hunt reigns supreme in Japan: What next?
The fight had the MMA world on the edge of its chairs. When the referee stepped out of the way and called for the start of the first round the anticipation was clinging to the very walls of the Satiama...
View ArticleDana White: Conor McGregor is bigger than the Brock
When the UFC 178 kicked off, it was the third fight on the card that had the internet all a buzz. For the last 12 months a brash Irish upstart from Dublin was calling out the elite of the featherweight...
View ArticleKurtley Beale: The ex-Rebel with a cause
When I was told about the incident that occurred between Wallaby staff member Di Patston and Kurtley Beale I was bemused. Surely there had to be more to this situation. I fantasised that Beale had...
View ArticleToo old and too short aren’t in Mark Hunt’s vocabulary
When I leisurely awoke from my slumber this morning I went through my traditional routine. Slowly get up without waking girlfriend, dress quietly and stalk off to living room, find laptop and muse...
View ArticleSutton and Weidman – Two tough guys that care
The first current UFC Champion has visited Australia’s shores and one of his first stops was the most unlikely of places. At the Marrackville PCYC yesterday the UFC surprised the locals by running a...
View ArticleAnthony Mundine to become a legend
I watched Cathy Freeman win the gold in Sydney and I watched Justin Harrison steal the lineout throw against the Lions in 2001. I also witnessed David Campese’s last try for the Waratahs and Randwick...
View ArticleUFC 182 : The fox vs the hedgehog
Imagine a tussle between a fox and a hedgehog. The fox is faster, smarter, more creative, with a wider variety of tools at his disposal. The hedgehog does one thing so well that the fox can never beat...
View ArticleAl ‘The Raging Bull’ Iaquinta is the next big thing in MMA
One of the fun hooks of combat sports is the idiosyncratic monikers that are dubbed on sportsmen by themselves, their training team, PR manager and sometimes even their opponents. I remember asking...
View ArticleThe tale of two teams: The Wallabies’ training guide
In the wake of the furore that accompanied the announcement of the Wallabies squad for the pending Rugby World Cup I was forced to blunt my outrage in an attempt to consider the selections. I have been...
View ArticleRonda Rousey: The baddest woman on the planet is coming to Melbourne
Late last night, the UFC announced two breaking news events regarding the monster of a card they have been assembling for UFC 193 in Melbourne this year. Firstly, the bad news was that UFC welterweight...
View ArticleConor McGregor: The Ali of the UFC
I read on an Irish MMA blog that the legendary beserker figure of Irish folklore, Cuchulain, had risen again in the form of the Dublin-based UFC fighter Conor McGregor. Not long before McGregor’s epic...
View ArticlePocock, McMahon and Hooper: The Unholy Trinity
They say rugby is the game they play in heaven, and our redeemer is the fullback. Let it be proclaimed with wailing and gnashing of teeth that if this be so, then the prince of positions remains the...
View ArticleMidlife crisis on the canvas: My journey into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
I can remember a point in my early thirties that all of a sudden my love for contact sports began to backfire. Every weekend rugby game I played would no longer have me ready good to go for a Tuesday...
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