Let me start this article by saying I am not condoning drink driving in the slightest. It is a dangerous practice and I usually have little sympathy for anyone who gets done. However, I will say that the damage Willie Mason would have done driving around Newcastle the night after a ‘big one’ pales in…
Read More Why Willie Mason’s DUI Was a Good ThingIt’s a familiar pattern by now. Young athlete bursts onto the scene before suffering well-documented slump in form. Months, perhaps years later, they re-emerge, physically superior and killing it at interstate/club level. At this point, we, the public, begin to wonder what has driven this spectacular renaissance? After all, it cannot be just the product…
Read More The Role of Women in Sport is to Act as AccessoryAt the moment the Socceroos are at rock bottom. They are like Robert Downey Jnr during those years when he took heaps of drugs and lived in a rehab facility. They are broken, destitute and down on their luck. They want to crash on your couch for a couple of days. Maybe borrow a couple…
Read More The Socceroos are Junk BondsI had the privilege of watching Roger Federer live last week. He handsomely defeated Jo Wilfried-Tsonga in straight sets. He didn’t out-run him and didn’t out-hit him. Federer simply played a superior game of tennis, dishing out a PhD in tennis artistry that rendered Tsonga hapless, an afterthought. I wondered whether this was as close…
Read More On Federer And The Triumph of Sportsmen Over AthletesDear readers, I have always seen The Public Apology as more than just a self-indulgent hobby-horse. In this uncertain media landscape, content is – and will always remain – king. And while the shift from print to online has forced many esteemed publications to close their doors over the past few years – with ‘changing…
Read More A Message From The Founder of TPA