Alpha Magazine

It was unbearably tense. It all nearly went so terribly wrong. On June 12, 2006, Australia played Japan in the Socceroos’ first World Cup game in 32 years. The future of football in this country was on the line. Now those at the heart of that match tell it how…

With the FIFA World Cup looming, we’re starting to be bombarded with the usual tired old messages about the world coming together in harmony, yada yada yada. But in reality, only half of humanity is coming together.  Who’s missing? Women, of course.

Brit DAVE CORNTHWAITE paddles the length of the Murray River in the name of charity – and avoiding a real job.

Canberra golfer Brendan Jones has plundered squillions from Japan, but disqualified himself from this list when he briefly flickered across our collective consciousness at this year’s US Open. No such blemish for Conran, who’s won $5 million on the Japanese tour in recent years. Just look at that alluring picture.…

In scenes that would make most men tremble, GORDON WALKER revels in the brutality of NZ’s Coast to Coast adventure race.

This week baseball fan Steve Consalvi, 17, ‘stormed the field’ at the Phillies and St Louis Cardinals game in Philadelphia. When he leapt the fence he probably didn’t realise it would end by the local police shooting him in the back with a taser. In case you were wondering the…

By Anthony Sharwood. The AFL, that over-officious sporting body which struts its self-importance like a hired goon from Underbelly, has gone completely power mad, imposing ruthless penalties on officials who placed some of the world’s smallest bets. Get this. AFL Timekeeper Matthew Hollington has been stood down for five weeks…

Valentino Rossi may love the track, the people, the weather and winning our race all the time (well sometimes), but surely what he’s really looking forward to is seeing the pride of Victoria’s glam girls - the unsung, hard-working grid girls of the MotoGP. In November 2009 the stunning Nioka…

By Anthony Sharwood The World Twenty20 starts this week, and Australia has already lost a warm-up match to Zimbabwe. It’s no toughie to work out why. Beyond Dave Warner, Shane Watson and Cameron White, our batting order lacks firepower. The bang crash wallop only one man can deliver. But that…