Murray Brust
NBL: The thing that’s missing with the popular league
The National Basketball League is relevant again. After a few years of waning interest and general indifference from the sports-loving public, the...
Sport’s new mantra: A quick game’s a good game
Twenty20 cricket has a lot to answer for, with its success prompting just about every sport in Australia to try its hand at...
AFL Women’s: How the competition became so popular, so quickly
A lockout for their first game, more than 50,000 fans at the first round and a national TV audience of close to...
‘This is changing Aussie culture’: Excited women footballers ready to go
It is the clash of traditional rivals that has never happened before. Carlton and Collingwood, two clubs representing neighbouring inner-Melbourne suburbs who...
AFL Women: Everything you need to know
A new presence on our sporting landscape arrives on Friday evening when the inaugural Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] competition begins. A...
Nitro Athletics: the star Aussie teen set to sprint against Usain Bolt
Cricket has headed over the ditch and the tennis is so last week. Stand by for track and field to take an...
Diving in sport: It is not just soccer’s problem
If you’ve been vaguely following Australian sport this week, you are likely to have seen the dive from Brisbane Roar’s Jade North....
The solution to fix Australian cricket’s scheduling issues
ANALYSIS Over the past week, we’ve rediscovered our appetite for Test cricket. The national team took some exciting steps toward a resurgence...
The ICC must throw the book at the embarrassing South Africans
The South African cricket team has become a problem. And that’s why the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to come down hard...
Why it’s time we gave Nick Kyrgios a break
ANALYSIS In Australia, we have long expected our professional sportspeople to not only be model citizens (as if we all are), but...