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James Naismith
How he came to know about it is unclear, but certain aspects of the game, called “duck on a rock”, or “duck and run”, stayed with him and informed his invention of basketball.
2 Oct 2012
Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin
De Coubertin had achieved his dream: once every four years, sports of all sorts coming together for the greatest show on Earth.
1 Aug 2012
Julie Bradshaw
Few sporting personalities do their motivating while still performing of those, Few take part purely for charity, like Channel-crosser Julie Bradshaw.
22 Jul 2012
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens changed forever any previously-held notions of what was and wasn’t possible for a human to achieve.
1 Jun 2012
Jim Thorpe
Everything Thorpe did was a “first”. He played a staggering range of sports, and excelled at them all.
1 May 2012
Emil Zatopek
This Czech superstar is credited with inventing interval training, but he was a sporting pioneer in many ways.
1 Apr 2012
Drinks With Mick Malthouse
Leonine Mick Malthouse, who, in costume, made the corporate buttoned and badged tacky black-and-white tracky almost debonair.
15 Mar 2012
George Daldry
George Daldry introduced new conditioning methods at a time when a game like rugby league was always going to frown upon a “fitness guru”.
1 Mar 2012
Muhammad Ali
Though equally reviled and idolised, he deserved the self-conferred epithet “The Greatest”.
24 Feb 2012
George Ligowski
Sport wouldn’t exist at all except for certain ingenious, often unrelated, little inventions that open up a world of possibilities.
29 Dec 2011
Reel Deal
Modern Anglers can thank watchmaker Jasper R. Dell Hull for those easy weekend castoffs
29 Nov 2011
Harry Mclaren
It’s time this innovator was given the recognition he deserves for bringing us the surf ski.
1 Oct 2011
Hawk-Eye
For athletes, the “how” and “why” of what they do is no longer a mystery.
1 Sep 2011
First serves
Tennis’ three “innovators” might not have invented the sport, but they certainly pioneered the game we know today.
4 Aug 2011
Daily Messenger
Rugby League may never have taken root on Australia’s eastern seaboard had it not been for “The Master”.
4 Jul 2011
David Parkin
David Parkin came from the most prestigious school ever to produce AFL coaches: the school of hard knocks. The backline.
5 Jun 2011
Abe Saperstein
The founder and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters did much more than bring flashy basketball to the white masses.
5 May 2011
Yogi Berra
Yankees catcher Yogi Berra was the no-nonsense character baseball had been waiting for. He knew a bit about the game,stumbling only on delivery to us mere mortals.
7 Apr 2011
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King didn’t just liberate women – she liberated the game of tennis.
8 Feb 2011
Drinks With Ron Barrasi
Is there a more recognisable face in Australian sport than Ron Barassi’s?
8 Feb 2011
Rod Laver
Sure, top-spin was around before Rod Laver, but it was “Rocket” who brought the potentially-lethal tactic to life
8 Jan 2011
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