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1 After everything that’s been said and done about the Israel Folau saga, consider: this could have been a problem for any of the three oval-ball codes. And it just happened to be union, at a period of maximum struggle, that had to deal with it ...

2 Glenn McGrath picks England to win the Cricket World Cup. What is the world coming to? McGrath, who famously issued blanket whitewash predictions in Australia’s favour in every Ashes, believed it was the first time he picked the English to win anything. “I can’t remain biased my whole life,” he told a cricket website. Okay, okay; the player of the tournament in the 2007 World Cup hedged a little, noting they were only favourites: “I didn’t say they were going to win the World Cup.”

Lance Armstrong has regrets ... but really doesn’t. In a television interview,

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