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This Enormous Texan Stumbled Into Basketball, And Now He's Stumbled Into Australian Rules Football Stardom
Mason Cox has a history of getting lured into sports he did not actually play. Organized basketball found him first. At Marcus High School in Texas, he stuck to solely to soccer, a decision that looked slightly stranger after he grew six inches between his junior and senior years and found himself a...
Tennys Sandgren Now Enjoys A "Very Intense" Friendship With Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald telegraphed this one back in March:...
Brian Bowen Joins Australian NBL Via Program Designed To Compete With The NCAA
Brian Bowen, whose allegedly greased recruitment to Louisville cost Rick Pitino his job and essentially cost Bowen two years of eligibility, has decided to join the Sydney Kings of Australia’s National Basketball League....
Huge Brawl Breaks Out During Australia-Philippines Basketball Game
A massive fight erupted during an Australia-Philippines basketball game today. When the dust settled, 13 players were ejected from the FIBA World Cup qualifier—four from Australia and nine from Philippines....
Kangaroo On The Field Is Great At Running, Atrocious At Kicking The Ball
This here kangaroo showed up to an Australian women’s Premier League match over the weekend and put together an impressive minute or so of tape. Our pal apparently wandered around the field for about 20 minutes, dozed off, hopped a few fences, and flashed some impressive top-level speed. However, hi...
Last Time Australia Were Bad And Fun, But Now They're Bad And Boring
At the 2014 World Cup, Australia were one of those entertaining minnows who have no real shot at escaping the maws of the big fish hunting them down but still make the chase interesting. In a hellacious group along with Spain, the Netherlands, and Chile, Australia lost all three matches, as was expe...
"Poo Jogger" Caught In The Act
It’s a story as old as time: A man was taking poops where he wasn’t supposed to, and his neighbors have caught him in an elaborate sting operation by hiding in the bushes with a camera....
Aussie Teen Delivers Wicked Scorpion Goal
Nineteen-year-old Riley McGree, born in Gawler and currently on loan with the Newcastle Jets, earned himself a bonzer golazo against Melbourne City with an inspired scorpion-kick finish that had the whole crowd, and an announcer, marveling at its freakishness....
Why Cricket's Ball-Tampering Scandal Is Such A Big Deal
You’ve heard by now that the Australian men’s Test cricket team were caught ball-tampering in a match against South Africa. Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera scuffing the surface of the match ball with a piece of sandpaper, and tried to hide the evidence when informed that he’d been filmed in th...
Australian Men Caught Cheating In That Sport We All Understand So Well, Which Is Cricket
We’ve got a major cricket scandal, folks. A young Australian player was caught more or less red-handed doctoring up the ball, so obviously and egregiously that his team’s captain was forced to come clean and cop to a plot among the team’s leadership. This is from a Sport 24 report:...
Kangaroo Destroys Cyclist
Today in news from Australia: A kangaroo leapt out of a bush and took out a cyclist, who was reportedly going about 18 mph. There’s video:...
Roger Federer Could Never Get Bored Of This
A friend of mine pointed out that Mirka Federer, after attending her 30th Grand Slam final, still bothered to record the trophy ceremony for her husband—whose every offhand utterance, let alone metal-hoisting victory speech, is documented by a flickering panopticon of cameras and instantly cemented ...
Roger Federer Wins Australian Open For 20th Slam Title
Old man Roger Federer beat sixth-seeded Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the Men’s Singles final at the Australian Open, for his 20th career Grand Slam title. Per ESPN:...
Caroline Wozniacki Captures First Grand Slam Title On 43rd Try
Caroline Wozniacki defeated top-seeded Simona Halep 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 to win the Australian Open Saturday. This was Wozniacki’s third Grand Slam final, and her 43rd major, and just her first Grand Slam title. 43 attempts is fourth-most ever before a first win in Women’s Open Era history; I am getting lo...
Roger Federer Buried Hyeon Chung And His Blisters
The semifinal between Roger Federer and breakout Hyeon Chung had little chance of being a close match, something like dropping a tired, brave guppy into the mouth of a shark and hoping something interesting might happen. Due in part to Chung’s blisters—built up over two weeks of tough matches and pl...
Big Doofus Glory Boy Robs His Partner Of Kill Shot, Loses<em></em>
With the Australian Open semifinals on the line, the mixed doubles team of Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Andrea Hlavackova were standing in aggressive position at net. They were then served a gentle ball that looked like it’d land within six feet of the net. What a relief! That’s a routine put-away for...
Simona Halep Has Weathered Everything
Simona Halep will play the Australian Open final. On its face, the fact of that doesn’t seem particularly remarkable or surprising. She is after all, the highest-ranked player in the world, the top seed at this tournament, and only a few months removed from her last major final. She has yet to lose ...
Serena Williams Calls On Tennys Sandgren To Apologize
With Chris Fowler busy hand-waving away Tennys Sandgren’s alarming political views and hateful beliefs, and the rest of tennis media cowed into silence by Sandgren scolding them for asking about his beliefs after he encouraged them to ask him about his beliefs, Serena Williams called for Sandgren to...
Tennys Sandgren Pissily Scolds Media For Asking Him About Things He Said
Hyeon Chung defeated Tennys Sandgren 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Before that, under the new scrutiny that comes with being one of the last eight remaining players in one of the biggest tournaments in tennis, Sandgren deleted all his tweets, including one that expre...
Chris Fowler Would Really Like Everyone To Be Nicer To Pizzagate Truther Tennys Sandgren
When it became clear late in the third set that American Tennys Sandgren was probably going to lose his Australian Open quarterfinal match to South Korean 20-year-old Hyeon Chung, ESPN commentators Chris Fowler and Patrick McEnroe decided it was the time for a perfunctory discussion of how Sandgren ...