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How to spin bowl like Shane Warne
Become a spin king with tips from the man who helped Shane Warne improve his game.
20 Aug 2014
Electronic gear system
Cyclists used to have to change wheels if they wanted to change gears. Now, they just press two buttons ...
5 Aug 2014
The Gracie family
This famous clan proved that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was the "ultimate" way to bring down an opponent ... whatever their size.
5 Aug 2014
Soccer meets snooker
Have you guys seen this? It’s pool played on the world’s biggest table … soccer style.
10 Jun 2014
Touch founders
When the rules of touch were drawn up, a new generation of participants got to play the "greatest game of all".
30 Apr 2014
Innovator - Ted Tinling
How a clothes designer earned women's tennis its rightful place alongside the blokes.
16 Jan 2014
Sarfraz Nawaz
Cricket’s flat-Earth view of swing bowling changed forever when Pakistan’s swing merchant threw the game into reverse.
6 Jan 2014
Mike Ryan
The founder of a sports journalism institution was in it for much more than magazine sales. Put simply, Australian boxing needed Fighter.
24 Oct 2013
Leigh Matthews
Never before or since has a player boasting the toughness and smarts of “Lethal” been seen on an Aussie rules field.
27 Sep 2013
Rinus Michels
The Dutch supercoach perfected the art of Total Football, Building one of the most iconic teams in the game’s history.
9 Sep 2013
Alec Bedser
This post-war Englishman’s cross-seam grip produced the ultimate Fast bowler’s delivery: an in-swinging leg-cutter.
24 Jul 2013
Ivan Lendl
The composite racquet’s arrival ushered in a new era of power and fitness. Its driver was Czech cyborg Ivan Lendl.
8 Jul 2013
Jason Belmonte
Who’d have thought two hands are better than one in ten-pin bowling? Only an Aussie.
29 Mar 2013
Douglas Jardine
Nobody said Innovators had to be good guys. When a bloke comes along and, with one stroke, alters long-established rules forever,
1 Jan 2013
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
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
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
Reel Deal
Modern Anglers can thank watchmaker Jasper R. Dell Hull for those easy weekend castoffs
29 Nov 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
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