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Alpha’s Tom Woodgate writes… A Socceroos team made up of mostly domestic A-League players battled to a very credible 2-2 draw in Kuwait last night, all but assuring safe passage to next year’s Asian Cup in Dubai. Whether any of them have put themselves in Pim’s thoughts for a plane…

Although the London Olympics don’t start for two whole years, according to my big ticking Olympics watch, Australia’s biggest prospect and finest athlete (it says here) Jana Rawlinson, has started her preparations early. For years, the season of the Games has been marked by a seemingly endless series of comedy…

Yeah, but no, but seriously now. Is this Tiger thing the weirdest story in the history of sport, if not the world, or what? At the risk of saying tsunami, this is the gutter-media tsunami. The tabloids can’t keep up. It’s like the Cookie Monster got delivered three truck-loads of…

As the hype from draft week dies down and players get acquainted with their new clubs, Alpha looks at the top five picks and rates their potential. Do you agree with our comments? What else do you know about these players? Get typing and let us know what you think.…

Somewhere, deep in the bowels of a sinister-looking HQ, where the only decoration is a very large Swoosh down one wall, a group of very concerned men in very dark suits, are having a very urgent meeting. These are the men tasked with the normally very easy job of maintaining…

The population of the earth awoke this morning to discover that the entire globe had fallen off its axis and that French footballer Thierry Henry had become the greatest villain in the history of humanity and symptom of every single thing that is wrong with modern sport today. Up to…

Australian sports fans throughout the country were left shocked and bewildered yesterday, when television coverage of the Masters seemed to show a golfer who was not Tiger Woods. The golfer, who appeared to be wearing a blue shirt and some kind of trousers, played a five iron into a medium…

In the latest news to rock the world of cricket to its foundations, the Australian one-day side has picked Larry the Lawnmower for its upcoming one-day gripper against India. With the series locked at two games all, and injuries shredding the Australian set-up, it was felt Larry would add much-needed…

The ATP has reacted swiftly to counter suggestions that a tennis player has been in any way interesting in the past 30 years. “We don’t encourage that kind of thing, and any player showing the slightest hint of a personality has been spoken to,” said a grey man in a…