Cricket
Punishment doesn't fit crime
Greg Baum Sport is not war, and a cricket team is not an army. Then why are they being treated as such?
Swimming
Former swimming chief rails at 'character assassination'
Greg Baum Lawrie Cox infuriated by threat to slash $2 million from Swimming Australia funding.
Swimming
Water torture: former Swimming Australia man can stay silent no longer
Greg Baum Swimming was hailed by the Australian Sports Commission as a well-run, accountable and progressive sport, says a former Swimming Australia director infuriated by the ASC's threat to slash $2 million...
Cricket
India tour a shambles of highest order
Greg Baum Abysmal result demonstrates that Australia has lost control of its own cricket destiny.
Greg Baum
Indian wickets tricky, not sticky
Greg Baum From this hazy distance, it is hard to say whether or not the antbed Chennai pitch spooked the Australians in India. But it certainly spooked Australians in Australia.
Cricket
Let's just shut our eyes and think of England
Greg Baum If we shut our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, and hum loudly to ourselves, the India series eventually will go away. Immediately, there is no other viable tactic.
The pool ripple that made waves
Greg Baum It would have been simpler for everyone if the Stilnox six had been made to write 100 lines - 'I must not be a naughty boy' - and told that they could not go to the pool again until they had handed...
Cancer story built a fake ideal of fighting spirit
Greg Baum TONY Greig, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Geoff McClure, Simon Townley. Some of these names will be familiar, some less so.
Cycling
Still trying to take us for a ride
Greg Baum In life and in sport, the Armstrong legend was built largely on the power of drugs.
Clarke a force of nature with a fine repertoire
Greg Baum Michael Clarke made a hundred, and Shane Watson did not. In Australian cricket terms, this was as night follows day.
Johnson revives Thommo terror days
Greg Baum Sri Lanka was rudely manhandled back to the beginning, suffering at Australia's hands its third heaviest defeat in Test cricket.
Farewell to the insiders' outsider
Greg Baum It would be so much simpler to lampoon Tony Greig than to eulogise him. His chief reknown in the second half of his life was as a cricket commentator who often appeared to be playing up to a...
Spin gets out of control for Warne
Greg Baum Shane Warne doesn't look much like Warnie any more. Nor does he bowl much like Warnie.
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Old crew still there, even Punter
Greg Baum At the fall of the second wicket at Bellerive yesterday, Ricky Ponting appeared as usual. This was happenstance.
Australia needs every last man to take charge
Greg Baum Cricket does not have to be synced to a teenager's temperament to be fulfilling.
Too few watched, but rewards for those who made the effort
Greg Baum At the heart of Sunday's play at Blundstone Arena, as the first Test hung in the balance, not many people watched not much happen for quite a long time. It was a deceptive inertia.
Pitch in death roll as fate toys with skipper's men
Greg Baum The first Western sailors to find Sri Lanka called it the Isle of Serendipity. Serendipity is the faculty for making happy discoveries by accident.
Siddle-handed demolition job masks inherent hallucination that all is not what it seems
Greg Baum Michael Clarke's work with smoke and mirrors was so deft that another sparse gathering of watchers at Bellerive could have sworn they saw wicketkeeper Matt Wade bowl an over of nippy medium pace.
Clarke reshuffle has cards fall Australia's way
Greg Baum For the second time in three Tests, Peter Siddle shoulders burden of leading threadbare attack.
Cricket
Skipper digs in to lead South African recovery
Greg Baum This was Test cricket in its more usual guise, three an over rather than five.
