Football
Make room on the Socceroos bandwagon
Richard Hinds Surely the Socceroos win. Surely they beat Iraq and avoid the tortuous uncertainty of sudden death repechage in Asia and South America. Surely they go straight to Rio.
Cricket
Brain snap is just symptom of players' wider malaise
Richard Hinds It just had to be Joe Root didn't it? Why couldn't David Warner have taken a swing at Kevin Pietersen? At one time or another, most of the South African batsman's English teammates have wanted to.
Cricket
Ricky, please come back and save us
Richard Hinds It takes a big man to admit he was wrong. Unfortunately, I don't have one here. So I am going to have to do this myself.
Cricket
Why Warner's spray has me yearning for the good old days
Richard Hinds David Warner's ill-tempered Twitter tirade at two cricket writers did not say much we did not know from watching the chunky opener at the crease: there are outback cattle stations where the wireless...
Cricket
Nine: better the devil you know
Richard Hinds You can't help hoping Nine can show Cricket Australia the money.
Subtract Nine from Ten and see what viewers are left with
Richard Hinds Since it was revealed by Fairfax Media that Ten had emerged as a very real alternative to Nine as the broadcaster of Australian cricket, it has been impossible to ignore a harrowing image.
Horse Racing
'Singo' and Gai's is a less than joyous jostle in a long run
Richard Hinds When people say Singleton and the Waterhouse family have history, they are not exaggerating.
Horseracing
Job done: the majestic mare exits stage as arguably the greatest
Richard Hinds Such is Black Caviar's fame, and our cult of personality, the champion racehorse has assumed a human persona that includes a popular Twitter account and a budding romance with the English stallion...
Red (and black) letter days
Richard Hinds The media have often been accused of sensationalising behaviour of A-League fans.
CRICKET
Spark of hope still flickers among the Ashes
Richard Hinds NO, I didn't have Brad Haddin in my Ashes squad. Thought his time had passed. Didn't believe he had done enough to displace the incumbent Matthew Wade, or even earn a touring berth ahead of Tim Paine.
High praise for Gallop as timing is everything
Richard Hinds David Gallop's move to the A-League coincided with its best and brightest season.
Cricket
The evidence is in, time to sift through Ashes to find a squad
Richard Hinds The ignominious tour of India has drawn to an appropriately calamitous conclusion. The Sheffield Shield - the anachronistic bugbear that complicates the scheduling of Big Bash League games and...
Skipper needs to get his hands dirty
Richard Hinds For the religious minded, Clarke must suffer for the sins of his fellow batsmen.
Cricket
When you've stopped laughing, Arthur's decision does make sense
Richard Hinds There is a serious side to this comic turn on the Indian tour, writes Richard Hinds.
A once-great sport sinks to new low
Richard Hinds Not long ago Australian swimmers were beacons of athletic supremacy and models of wholesome virtue.
Richard Hinds
Proud sport's belly-flop at Games such a toxic waste
Richard Hinds It does not seem long ago that Australian swimmers were beacons of athletic supremacy and models of wholesome virtue.
Richard Hinds
Swimming must focus on problems at the top, not the tomfoolery
Richard Hinds Australian swimming's nationally televised visit to the headmaster's office did nothing to address the real problem with swimming: lack of leadership.
Pull the other one, it whistles dixie
Richard Hinds It is number, not necessarily gravity of issues that has created impression cricket is in turmoil.
Inverarity's knickers in a twist as little things add up to turmoil
Richard Hinds John Inverarity announced Australia's Twenty20 squad on Monday wearing vintage Y-fronts with badly stretched elastic.
Richard Hinds
10 Ashes Tests may give BBL a whack
Richard Hinds The Big Bash League, we were promised, would save cricket. What will save BBL?
