All Men Are Liars on Football
All men are liars
The built-in reaction
Sam de Brito Jack White, the former singer and guitarist with The White Stripes, last week had a dig at Lady Gaga, describing her persona as "all artifice. It's all image with no meaning behind it".
The "no d#@*heads" policy
Sam de Brito Now the cheering and jeering has stopped, the crowds returned home, the muddied boots chucked back in the cupboard and the football season (at least in the two codes that matter) put to bed ...
Why do sports matter?
Sam de Brito I've always had an uneasy relationship with football - mainly because I was so crap at it - but also because I distrust mass hysteria and certainty and you'll find both of those in spades amongst...
Sticks and stones
Sam de Brito Seriously ... we're letting a rugby league football player lead the discussion about online freedom of speech in this country?
Knowing your place
Sam de Brito Does anybody else get a chuckle out the constant teeth-gnashing by the rugby union fraternity, as they kid themselves there's actually something wrong with the world order of that sport when...
Noble lies
Sam de Brito Didn't the Olympics dismantle one of our favourite national myths - that our "selfless" athletes "do it for Australia"?
Death knock
Sam de Brito Everybody, it seems, knows how to do a journalist's job better than they do; with more integrity, greater insight, fuller imagination and better "splleing".
Barbarians made the gate
Sam de Brito "Cultures live in one of three states. The first state is barbarism. Barbarians believe the customs of their village are the laws of nature and that anyone who doesn't live as they live is beneath...
Fatso
Sam de Brito I'd hate to give you the impression my mates are a pack of yobbo loudmouths because, they're not - honest - but, carrying on from yesterday's post about political correctness, I'd like to tell you...
Man love
Sam de Brito So, I went on a hot date recently and I'm not sure how to follow up with ... well ... him ...
Weigh in
Sam de Brito So, thanks to my somewhat pathetic, pleading blog post last month 'Give me a TV show', I've hooked up with a production company called R & R Media and we're going to shoot a 'sizzle reel' for All Men...
Outdoor Type?
Sam de Brito One of our great Australian songs, generally not considered an Australian song, is the Lemonheads 'Outdoor Type', sung by the once omnipresent Evan Dando ...
Respect
Sam de Brito Next to a well-regarded and successful doctor, guess what is the most universally respected profession in the country of Vietnam? No, not a model, football player, newsreader or Celebrity Apprentice...
What to do?
Sam de Brito A teenage boy attacks another with a broken bottle and slashes him viciously on the shoulder, opening up a 30-centimetre cut ...
The biff
Sam de Brito It will be interesting to see what the NRL review committee has to say tonight about last Friday's all-in brawl between the rugby league teams Manly and Melbourne ...
