Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2018 i Inside Sport

BEST QUOTE IN THE MAG THIS MONTH: “I think a lot of the rivalry just sprang naturally from the fact the other team is Collingwood fullstop; there's a lot of people who don't like Collingwood.”–Vixens netballer Jo Weston on how she feels about the Pies, p.74 WITH THE culmination of the World Cup and our national football codes entering the stretch run of their seasons, there’s been no shortage of big-time sport going around. You’ll see plenty of material from those fronts this month, but it’s one of the strengths of Inside Sport that it can reach beyond the sporting mainstream to its edges. Indeed, it’s been a core part of the magazine’s identity, from its earliest days, that we regard sport as a broad church. We often find ourselves…

1 Ben Stiller movie? Staple of old-school PE classes? Hipster craze? No – dodgeball has become an actual honest-to-goodness sport, with established rules, world-wide governance and, this month, a World Cup event. And no, Team Globo Gym will not be taking part. 2 Late last year, dodgeball was granted observer status by the Global Association of International Sports Federations, or GAISF – its seal of approval is the closest thing we have to ordaining “real” sports status (pole dancing was another newly minted observer; rugby league, alas, remains on the outside). In a local parallel, the Australian Sports Commission announced last May that it had oÿcially recognised Dodgeball Federation Australia as a national sporting organisation. 3 What does it mean? “You speak to people randomly and they don’t even know…

Driven away Pop quiz: who won last year’s Formula One event in Germany? If your answer was “no one”, you probably follow F1. Because that’s right – the land of Schumacher, Vettel and Mercedes didn’t have a race last year, and after this latest German GP (July 22) in Hockenheim, there’s no guarantee it will continue on the calendar. German F1 champ Nico Rosberg (his dad was a Finn, but still) captured the sentiment recently: “Without a German race, I struggle to see it as a real world championship.” Only a few years back, the country was such an open-wheel staple that it held two races a year. Instead, F1 seems intent on its new-world designs in Miami, as well as a race in Vietnam. And we don’t have Bernie…

Orange is a fine and tidy town. Tree-lined and trim, its four distinct seasons produce cold climate wines and hot summer sport. It’s a cool joint, too – you can eat a duck pancake in a gastro-pub. You can drink local sav blanc with a variety of cheeses. And your children may ride their bikes, and play cricket in the street, and run about bare-feet in the wheat. It’s a beauty, Orange. Banjo Patterson was born in Orange. So were V8 Supercars. A woman known as “Susan” – and “The Crown Princess of Albania” – taught art at the local ladies college. Other things from Orange include gold and copper, stone fruits such as the apricot and the plum, and the Red Wiggle. Sportos? Heap of ’em. Golfer Lucas Parsons.…

Rob Whittaker finally put Australia on the map in the UFC’s title stakes. Who can follow? The name that has fans excited is Tai Tuivasa, who fought on the undercard of UFC225, winning a decision over veteran Andrei Arlovski. The 25-year-old heavyweight from western Sydney has the athletic bona fides – he was signed to the NRL’s Sydney Roosters, but his football career ended over a gambling addiction in 2010. He started his MMA career two years later, and has been undefeated in eight fights. He’s the ninth-ranked heavyweight in the UFC, and is closing on Daniel Ricciardo for making the shoey his trademark victory celebration. “I think Tai Tuivasa can go the whole way,” Whittaker says. “I think he’s talented enough. It’s up to him, if he does or…

JACK NEWTON is many things to many people. Jack Nicklaus calls him a mate. Ian Botham calls him a mate. Wally Lewis and Bob Hawke call him a mate. Every year, the great Hawkey lobs at Jack’s Celebrity Classic (Newton is pictured right next to 2015 winner Rebecca Artis) – 40 years old in December – and plays golf, drinks beer, sings Waltzing Matilda. And Australians feel good. Is there a more Australian Australian? Newton’s been inducted in the Order of Australia. He’s in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He’s described – by Hawke, no less – as “the quintessential Australian”. You probably know about the light plane accident in 1983, how he lost an arm and an eye, and almost the job lot. How he sat in the…

I. EYES Jason Belmonte is self-taught. He began bowling two-handed because as an 18-month old boy that’s the only way he could pick the ball up. “It’s probably easier for a child to work out than someone telling you,” he reckons. “As a bowler, an athlete, as you grow, your game is changing. And I thought it was a benefit that I was a chameleon, and self-taught. I had my own style and I never locked down a strict set of rules. I was open to interpretation, to developing. I always felt there wasn’t one secret. I’d feel trapped if there was. There’s no one true way. You would feel limited.” II. BRAIN “To this day I’ll win a tournament and there’ll be something about my game I didn’t like…

Building upon his impressive first book Time And Space, Coventry’s new tome, Footballistics, looks at the new footy knowledge coming out of the AFL’s work in data analytics. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) First, a question about Time And Space – owing as it does to Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting The Pyramid , one thing that stands out by comparison is that the tactical evolution of Aussie rules was quite circumscribed. Is that fair to say? I think so. In soccer, you had cross-pollination, people moving from one country to another. And especially at World Cups, there was sort of an exchange of ideas and styles. You had that to some extent in Australian rules with all the carnivals that…

1 Ian Thorpe calls for Olympic medal projections to be scrapped. The winner of five Games golds said the Australian Olympic Committee’s practice of setting targets in the medal tally placed too much pressure on athletes. It was a targeted point considering where Thorpe made it – he was launching the Australian Institute of Sport’s new athlete wellbeing division. 2 Cricket boss James Sutherland resigned, bringing a near two decade-long tenure in the job to an end. Sutherland departs in hardly the most congenial of circumstances, with the tampering scandal still hanging over Australian cricket. But the game is in ruddy, good health financially, and with the establishment of the Big Bash League on his CV, Sutherland can take to the speaking circuit with his title of “nation’s best sports…

David Steventon has a framed quote sitting on the windowsill of his office. It reads, “When you change the belief, you change the results.” “That’s really the crux of what my work is all about,” said Port Adelaide’s mindset performance coach. “We tend to focus a lot on self-belief, which in turn links in to resilience. We try to instil a resilience within the players, so that whatever they’re going through, they feel like they’re going to come out the other side.” Steventon works closely with Trent Hentschel and Aaron Greaves, who oversee Port’s goal-kicking program. Hentschel joined the Power as a development coach in 2015 after crossing the great divide from the Adelaide Crows, where his own promising career as a forward had been curtailed by injury. “Basically, we…

STATE OF PLAY The AusPlay survey, which is published by the Australian Sports Commission, recently reported that girls are less likely to participate in sport than boys, the gender gap is narrower than in other countries. Another interesting finding of the survey is the influence of parents: 75 percent of kids with one parent active in sport are more likely to participate. Susie Warwick: It’s a chestnut, always has been, because a lot of girls will do things like go to yoga, dance classes. You’re still doing something that’s some physical activity, but it’s never captured – there’s no turnstile, it’s not like going to a swimming pool. Or they walk-and-talk – boys don’t walk-and-talk. Danielle Warby: The thing with The Women’s Game is what we’re talking about is organised…

Robert Whittaker is feeling fine. Honest. He’s clad in a nice blue suit, the kind that doesn’t look out of place on a corporate type going about his business. The accessories, though, give it away. Few white-collars have reason to carry a title belt to work, a leather-and-gold-plated status symbol that’s as subtle as, well, a kick to the head. Then there’s the cast bulging out of his sleeve, containing the broken right hand he suffered in his fight against Yael Romero, only days ago. It still doesn’t stop him from shaking the hands of well-wishers with the bum paw. " I DIDN'T JUST GET HANDED ANYTHING. I HAD TO FIGHT A BEAST, THE BOOGEYMAN OF THE DIVISION, BEAT HIM TWICE, TO SOLIDIFY MY SPOT." Trying to unscrew the lid…

For years, spuds have been seen as fattening, but 94 percent of nutrition experts in a recent survey rated jacket potatoes as healthy. It’s time to mash the myth! Potatoes with their skins on provide energy, fibre and many essential nutrients our bodies need. Why then, do they continue to get singled out as being less healthy for us than other vegetables? The main difference: spuds are starchy, which is why low-carb diet advocates lump them with pasta or rice. But demonising potatoes is unnecessary, and only fuels an unhealthy relationship with food. Here are three reasons to reclaim the humble spud ... 1 – They’re naturally low in fat One medium boiled potato contains zero grams of fat and 425kJ (102cal). Turn those potatoes into deep-fried chips, and this…

“You can’t take it back because you sat out and could have played in a grand final … But on the other hand, it taught me a hell of a lot.” Gorden Tallis was a rising 20-year-old star when he was forced to sit out the 1996 rugby league season due to a contract dispute with the St George Dragons during the Super League war. In between navigating the conflicting advice of Super League and the Australian Rugby League, he decided to sign with the Brisbane Broncos – but the courts ruled against him playing. As he reflects back on that time, if there’s one thing The Raging Bull would change, it would be... “Probably to get both sides of the story. I didn’t think there was a player that…