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Brisbane Times

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Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Perhaps the greatest football mind the Premier League has known will bid farewell to the blue half on Manchester this weekend.

19.05.2026 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Perhaps the greatest football mind the Premier League has known will bid farewell to the blue half on Manchester this weekend.

19.05.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Perhaps the greatest football mind the Premier League has known will bid farewell to the blue half on Manchester this weekend.

19.05.2026 10

The Age

Oliver Brown

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Pep Guardiola managed every farewell with aplomb, except for his own

Perhaps the greatest football mind the Premier League has known will bid farewell to the blue half on Manchester this weekend.

19.05.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Sabastian Sawe conquered sport’s Everest. Where does it fit among the greatest feats?

The performance of a Kenyan runner in London has stunned the sporting world.

27.04.2026 10

The Age

Oliver Brown

Sabastian Sawe conquered sport’s Everest. Where does it fit among the greatest feats?

The performance of a Kenyan runner in London has stunned the sporting world.

27.04.2026 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Sabastian Sawe conquered sport’s Everest. Where does it fit among the greatest feats?

The performance of a Kenyan runner in London has stunned the sporting world.

27.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Sabastian Sawe conquered sport’s Everest. Where does it fit among the greatest feats?

The performance of a Kenyan runner in London has stunned the sporting world.

27.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation

The most famous name in golf has again put himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

05.04.2026 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation

The most famous name in golf has again put himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

05.04.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation

The most famous name in golf has again put himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

05.04.2026 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Tiger Woods deserves better than voyeuristic police video humiliation

The most famous name in golf has again put himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

05.04.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Trump holds the match to sport’s greatest political powder keg

Forget golf’s Ryder Cup and ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, the US president’s biggest sporting showcase is yet to come.

26.02.2026 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Trump holds the match to sport’s greatest political powder keg

Forget golf’s Ryder Cup and ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, the US president’s biggest sporting showcase is yet to come.

26.02.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Trump holds the match to sport’s greatest political powder keg

Forget golf’s Ryder Cup and ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, the US president’s biggest sporting showcase is yet to come.

26.02.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Trump holds the match to sport’s greatest political powder keg

Forget golf’s Ryder Cup and ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, the US president’s biggest sporting showcase is yet to come.

26.02.2026 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Brendon McCullum’s latest absurd claim should spell the end of his tenure

The England coach’s insistence his players “handled themselves pretty well across the board” in Australia – just before the Harry Brook news...

10.01.2026 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Brendon McCullum’s latest absurd claim should spell the end of his tenure

The England coach’s insistence his players “handled themselves pretty well across the board” in Australia – just before the Harry Brook news...

10.01.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Brendon McCullum’s latest absurd claim should spell the end of his tenure

The England coach’s insistence his players “handled themselves pretty well across the board” in Australia – just before the Harry Brook news...

10.01.2026 30

The Age

Oliver Brown

Brendon McCullum’s latest absurd claim should spell the end of his tenure

The England coach’s insistence his players “handled themselves pretty well across the board” in Australia – just before the Harry Brook news...

10.01.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

After contributing scores of nought and one in Sydney, there is the prospect of having to recover once more from a significant injury.

08.01.2026 30

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

After contributing scores of nought and one in Sydney, there is the prospect of having to recover once more from a significant injury.

08.01.2026 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

After contributing scores of nought and one in Sydney, there is the prospect of having to recover once more from a significant injury.

08.01.2026 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Loyalty over common sense: Stokes’ decision-making contributed to England’s woe

After contributing scores of nought and one in Sydney, there is the prospect of having to recover once more from a significant injury.

08.01.2026 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Self-immolation on an almost unconscionable scale: How England unravelled

England didn’t just lose the first Ashes Test in Perth. They suffered one of their most bruising defeats in Australia.

23.11.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

How a decade of IOC dithering enabled one of sport’s great scandals

The bureaucrats in Lausanne could have resolved this absurdity 10 years ago, but finally a resolution nears.

11.11.2025 30

WA Today

Oliver Brown

How a decade of IOC dithering enabled one of sport’s great scandals

The bureaucrats in Lausanne could have resolved this absurdity 10 years ago, but finally a resolution nears.

11.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

How a decade of IOC dithering enabled one of sport’s great scandals

The bureaucrats in Lausanne could have resolved this absurdity 10 years ago, but finally a resolution nears.

11.11.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

How a decade of IOC dithering enabled one of sport’s great scandals

The bureaucrats in Lausanne could have resolved this absurdity 10 years ago, but finally a resolution nears.

11.11.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

‘Xenophobic frat-boy viciousness’: Trump’s America laid bare at Ryder Cup

Rabble-rousers interested in nothing but subjecting the Europeans to relentless venom turned the Ryder Cup into an unedifying experience.

30.09.2025 40

WA Today

Oliver Brown

‘Xenophobic frat-boy viciousness’: Trump’s America laid bare at Ryder Cup

Rabble-rousers interested in nothing but subjecting the Europeans to relentless venom turned the Ryder Cup into an unedifying experience.

30.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

‘Xenophobic frat-boy viciousness’: Trump’s America laid bare at Ryder Cup

Rabble-rousers interested in nothing but subjecting the Europeans to relentless venom turned the Ryder Cup into an unedifying experience.

30.09.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

‘Xenophobic frat-boy viciousness’: Trump’s America laid bare at Ryder Cup

Rabble-rousers interested in nothing but subjecting the Europeans to relentless venom turned the Ryder Cup into an unedifying experience.

30.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Un-Australian, tepid and toothless. Wallabies slammed over first Test performance

It wasn’t just a gulf in class between the Lions and the Wallabies - it was a chasm. And a whitewash is on the cards.

20.07.2025 20

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Un-Australian, tepid and toothless. Wallabies slammed over first Test performance

It wasn’t just a gulf in class between the Lions and the Wallabies - it was a chasm. And a whitewash is on the cards.

20.07.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Un-Australian, tepid and toothless. Wallabies slammed over first Test performance

It wasn’t just a gulf in class between the Lions and the Wallabies - it was a chasm. And a whitewash is on the cards.

20.07.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Un-Australian, tepid and toothless. Wallabies slammed over first Test performance

It wasn’t just a gulf in class between the Lions and the Wallabies - it was a chasm. And a whitewash is on the cards.

20.07.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown

Gary Lineker has no one to blame but himself for exiting BBC in disgrace

Britain’s highest-profile television presenter considered himself bulletproof. That level of hubris is ultimately what caused his demise.

20.05.2025 10

WA Today

Oliver Brown

Gary Lineker has no one to blame but himself for exiting BBC in disgrace

Britain’s highest-profile television presenter considered himself bulletproof. That level of hubris is ultimately what caused his demise.

20.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Oliver Brown

Gary Lineker has no one to blame but himself for exiting BBC in disgrace

Britain’s highest-profile television presenter considered himself bulletproof. That level of hubris is ultimately what caused his demise.

20.05.2025 20

The Age

Oliver Brown

Gary Lineker has no one to blame but himself for exiting BBC in disgrace

Britain’s highest-profile television presenter considered himself bulletproof. That level of hubris is ultimately what caused his demise.

20.05.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Oliver Brown