This week on the Ian Higgins Show featuring TPA’s Dave J. Edwards, the ‘boys’ discuss: The sad passing of Muhammad Ali. No jokes here. Novak Djokovic wins the French Open – is he the GOAT… and is Murray a choker? There’s something unclean about clay tennis Are we witnessing the twilight of Serena Williams’ career? Kyrgios isn’t going…
Read More The Ian Higgins Show featuring TPA’s Dave J. EdwardsLike a raving mad homeless man on a city corner, this week McClintock is screaming about big issues. Although, in truth, he barely discuss them at all. ***** The Big Issues As Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski said, “I got issues, man.” Or was it “a rash”? Perhaps it was both. Nevertheless, this country has issues,…
Read More TPA’s Election Analysis: Week Three – The Big IssuesFor a sport widely regarded in this country as a gangster’s paradise of thugs, new money and hip-hop, the NBA playoffs and its accompanying TV coverage oozes class. Australian sport would do well to learn from it. Australia’s always had its NBA true believers. They get the game, they get the culture, they’re rusted-on. But…
Read More The NBA Playoffs: Peak SportWe’re a land of the ‘fair go’ in Australia. Whether you just read that in a Samuel-Johnson-Secret-Life-Of-Us voice, or a VB-advertisement-voice, it’s likely this is your truth. And although our country’s egalitarianism has more holes in it than a Panama Papers shell company, it’s still our prevailing identity. That’s right, in Australia the only laws…
Read More In the Salary Cap of Sporting Emotion, Queensland are Rampant CheatsIn this week’s half-baked coverage of the upcoming federal election, TPA’s Alasdair McClintock loosely analyses the pros and cons of the three major parties, coming to the inevitable conclusion that there are no pros and, um, they’re all cons. ***** The Major Parties The Vengaboys like to party. It’s true. They told us. But do they like the major…
Read More TPA’s Election Analysis: Week Two – The Major Parties