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Forgotten Sports Stories: Laurie Lee, an SCG Hill Pilgrimage and the Poet Who Bled for Cricket
An afternoon watching cricket on the SCG Hill. (Credit: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
In January 1974 Laurie Lee, the English poet and author who gave the world ‘Cider with Rosie’, travelled across the world to the notorious Hil...
Forgotten Sports Stories: George Best Down Under - From Hero to Humiliation.
George Best meets with football fans Shannon McMorrow, 4, and Russell Cummins, 5, while visiting the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1983. (Credit: Courier Mail)
Manchester United legend George Best toured Australia four times. The first time,...
Skene In the Game: The Forgotten Story of Les Kew Ming - the Longest Footy Kicker in the Land
This week’s Skene in the Game features an amazing forgotten story of Les Kew Ming a proud Chinese Australian who shocked the Australian rules football world in the late 1920s when he won the first ever long distance kicking competition. He...
Forgotten Sports Stories: Les Kew Ming, the Longest Footy Kicker in the Land
Les Kew Ming - the most famous Chinese-Australian Australian rules footballer of the White Australia era. (Credit: 1923 Magpie Portraits of Leading Footballers – Australian Rules Football Cards)
In 1928, in the depths of the White Australi...
An Ode to Terry Williams: The Essence of Rugby League
In February 2026, rugby league lost Terry Williams, author, teacher, Newtown Jets stalwart and official historian of the New South Wales Rugby League, only hours after he hosted the Jets season launch. He was 62. Seven months later, the gam...
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