Alpha Magazine

by Anthony Sharwood

Some mags do a list of the “Best Dressed” or “Most Beautiful”. Alpha couldn’t give a stuff about any of that. The first annual Beer List is about real Aussie athletes we’ve met who’d be great company over a brew or two. It all comes down to personality..

Take off the swim cap and nose pegs and this synchronised swimmer is something else.

THE WORLD CUP IS COOL Soccer’s problem is overkill. It’s hard enough following our own A-League, let alone the European leagues and their endless cups within leagues and leagues for cup winners. Yawn. Tune out. But when the World Cup is on, you shiver in the darkness watching Paraguay vs…

Have your sleeping patterns been shot to pieces because of the World Cup? Thanks to Optus’ live streaming of the World Cup final, you’ll be able to watch it wherever you want (yes, that means you can stay in bed). And best of all, it’s FREE. Broadcast specifically for playback…

By Anthony Sharwood

By Anthony Sharwood

By Anthony Sharwood The case for a video ref in soccer is so mind-numblingly, blatantly self-apparent, only a monolithic, dictatorial body like FIFA could stand in its way. So naturally enough, it is. Maybe the vuvuzelas have left FIFA deaf to the calls for justice by video. Or maybe, the…

In a startling and unprovoked piece of scapegoating, rugby league suit Geoff Garr telephoned Qld Origin star Greg Inglis this weekend to apologise “on behalf of the game” for the Andrew Johns racial slur