THE WEEK THAT WAS: Champion sprinter Betty Cuthbert’s death was a reminder that female athletes have always punched above their weight in Australia’s proud Olympic history but a surprisingly large number of them have had to take the bad times with the good, wr... More »
IT WENT too long and the fans didn’t think the fun was funny enough but chief writer RON REED gives The Footy Show’s new-old look a pass mark, although not by much. More »
FORMER TEST CAPTAIN Greg Chappell got an unpleasant surprise when he started working out early in the mornings in a famous Melbourne park – but he didn’t just blink and move on, writes RON REED More »
IN MORE than 50 years of writing sport, RON REED has met many great champions. Few could ever match Betty Cuthbert. More »
THERE IS NO mistaking the stand-out Bomber in the No 43 guernsey – he can do it all, writes RON REED ANTHONY McDONALD-TIPUNGWUTI has been the most recognisable footballer in the AFL from the moment he played his first game with Essendon last year. There are se... More »
WHEN THE villain turns out to be the victor, stand by for the jeers. Chief writer RON REED tunes into the aftermath of Usain Bolt’s dethroning at the athletics world championships. THE WINNER was booed off the track and the third placegetter did a lap of honou... More »
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Finally, Cricket Australia and the players have settled their long dispute but it remains to be seen how long it will take for the wounds to heal, says Chief Writer RON REED BRINGING the great cricket pay war to a belated conclusion is not t... More »
IT IS ALMOST 30 years since the family of the late Charles Brownlow wrote to the then VFL pleading for no change to be made in the criteria of football’s iconic best and fairest award. Neil Roberts has been an unflagging ally. Chief writer RON REED reports: TH... More »
GOOD THINGS come in threes, and, as chief writer RON REED reports in Test cricket so do some strange things: HAT-TRICKS are among the least common occurrences in Test cricket – in more than 2000 matches over nearly 150 years, bowlers have taken wickets with th... More »
HE MIGHT be St Kilda’s greatest-ever player and the most popular so it’s no wonder the applause was loud and long as Nick Riewoldt called time. More »
ENGLISH CRICKET has unearthed a new pace bowler making a name for himself at the double, writes RON REED More »
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Pressure is mounting on the AFL to adopt a send-off system for unacceptable head-high violence – and rightly so, writes RON REED. BILLY SLATER has a wife and kids and many friends and fans, this column certainly one of the latter. For all co... More »
