Jeff Centenera

Head Games

Head Games

What do you get when you combine football headers and table tennis? More than you might think. Cue the next sport-of-the-future candidate … 16 May 2018
A game in a paddock: thoughts on footy in the country

A game in a paddock: thoughts on footy in the country

I tell Nick Dal Santo, a boy from Bendigo, about my favourite – which is to say, most improbable –story from country football. “I can’t beat that, to be honest with you,” he says with a laugh. 13 Jul 2017
Naitanui in better nick

Naitanui in better nick

The West Coast star talks about his recovery from an ill-timed injury. 20 Jun 2017
Sinking feeling: Oracle in a hole again

Sinking feeling: Oracle in a hole again

Before the start of the America’s Cup, Jimmy Spithill reminisced about his team’s epic comeback four years ago – and how he didn’t want to have to do that again. 19 Jun 2017
Does the Champions Trophy matter?

Does the Champions Trophy matter?

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t – but there are some reasons to care, starting with laying down a marker for the Ashes. 2 Jun 2017
Five Things We Think Before Round 11

Five Things We Think Before Round 11

On the pivotal quality of Geelong vs Adelaide, jumper-swapping and Origin footy. 1 Jun 2017
Cup defence begins, but not yet

Cup defence begins, but not yet

Yacht races have all kinds of crazy competition rules. Try this one: America’s Cup holders Team Oracle are racing in the qualifiers, but will be in the finals regardless. 31 May 2017
Local puck action has its own cool edge

Local puck action has its own cool edge

Fast, physical and finely skilled: a pictorial look at the Sydney Ice Dogs of the Australian Ice Hockey League. 22 May 2017
Five things we think before round eight

Five things we think before round eight

The AFL comes to China: overconfident expansionism, or aerial ping-pong diplomacy? Crisis or opportunity? 12 May 2017
Get back to us at finals time?

Get back to us at finals time?

When the round seven rule meets a historically improbable weekend of upsets, what indeed is a footy follower to think? 11 May 2017
Feverish activity for Swans’ star

Feverish activity for Swans’ star

Sydney’s Isaac Heeney was raring to go at the start of this AFL season. Then he came down with a bug – and so did his team. 10 May 2017
Five things we think before round five

Five things we think before round five

If it’s definitely over for the Hawks, then how long do they deserve to be bad, or mediocre? 21 Apr 2017
When the race isn’t run, part II

When the race isn’t run, part II

How the sub-two-hour marathon project, and the rest of the elite marathon circuit, looks to a runner who finished all six big-city majors last year (and ran as Elvis!) 18 Apr 2017
When the race isn’t run

When the race isn’t run

The quest to break the two-hour barrier in the marathon now has a time and place. But it won’t happen in an actual, you know, marathon. 13 Apr 2017
Five things we think before round four

Five things we think before round four

God bless footy, even when it’s profaning a holy day. 13 Apr 2017
Dockers’ surprise is just the tonic

Dockers’ surprise is just the tonic

Fremantle had been one club suffering early from the wrong kind of momentum, but a win over the Western Bulldogs will give the club some needed relief. 10 Apr 2017
Five things we think before round three

Five things we think before round three

The overreaction caucus is getting warmed up, particularly for the eight sides still winless this season. 7 Apr 2017
Ruck, as in ruckus

Ruck, as in ruckus

Who would have thought that trying to impose structure on a chaotic contest for the ball would lead to such disorder? A study in unintended consequences. 6 Apr 2017
Australia’s heiress of the aerial

Australia’s heiress of the aerial

Danielle Scott, the world no.2-ranked aerial skier, stands to inherit the nation’s sneaky-great tradition in the Winter Olympic sport. 24 Mar 2017
Five things we think before round one

Five things we think before round one

Or at least until the start of the actual footy changes our minds. 23 Mar 2017
Player flux and the fog of preseason

Player flux and the fog of preseason

On the eve of the AFL’s return, here’s yet another reason to doubt your predictions for 2017. 22 Mar 2017

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