Archive for March, 2015
The World Cup the organisers didn’t want you to see
It was January last year when my mate Russ asked if I wanted to go to the World Cup final. It sounded like a good idea, if not for the format but for the event.
It’s been years since I’ve been to a one-day game, a rained out disappointment at the Gabba against India.
The bloody brutality of boxing – Brayden Smith
When a boxer gets hit in the face, different brain tissues move against each other. A hard punch can cause microhaemorrhages, or bleeding on the brain. The shifting of brain cells also alters the ability to move, see and think. Repeated hard punches throughout a fight can exacerbate a microhaemorrhage or cause others.
