This time, it is another United in the English Premier League. My team, Newcastle United.The 2011-12 Premier League season is only nine games in, yet this season could be a special one for my team. Amongst the big contenders like Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City, sit Newcastle in 4th: A big club in the past, but has not won a major trophy since their UEFA Cup win in 1969, who were relegated only two seasons ago and who supposedly have sold most of their big players in the past two...

Most recently, there has been talk of the ABC cutting back on their arts and sports coverage. If this happens, I can see the demise of the now humble state footy league.As I live in Melbourne, I get treated to a wonderul display of VFL football each week. I often choose these games over watching the AFL for many reasons; they are live, it's real footy without umpires influencing the game all the time and the quality of the football is often much better. I can't speak for citizens of South and...

Bernard Tomic will tonight play the biggest game of his life, taking on world number two Novak Djokovic. But did you remember him before he got this far, and before his great run at the Australian Open in January? Tomic was not a very well liked man. In a massive change of heart however, everyone seems to love him. When he 'refused' a training session with Lleyton Hewitt, there was a massive uproar with everyone saying that he was a little brat. What about when his father ordered him off the...

Surely now, Ricky Ponting's glittering career is over.Overnight, he was dismissed for another duck in the first innings of the second test against the Proteas in South Africa. His second duck of the series couldn't have come at at worse time as Australia went from 0-174 to all out for 296, which is only 30 runs better than the South Africans.Ponting has much been in decline since 2008, and during his last 42 innings, has only made one test century. He says that he his happy with his form and he...