Celebrating over 20 years in print, Inside Sport is Australia's most highly awarded sporting publication, including the recipient of the prestigious Walkley Award for sport journalism. But that's not why sports fans love it. Inside Sport consistently tackles modern sporting issues and publishes awe-inspiring sports photography, every month. THAT'S why sports fans love it.
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A BLAST OF AB • The Heat has certainly been turned up in the Big Bash League, with no less than South African cricket legend AB De Villiers to join the Brisbane franchise for the second half of BBL09. If you’re in the stands, get your catching hands ready …
20 REASONS TO CATCH THE 2020 BBL • Dangerously close to becoming the main event across Australia’s annual cricket summer, the Big Bash League is once again poised to dominate our sports viewing across the festive season and beyond. Each year Australian fans are spoilt by the hitting and bowling heroics of the game’s most exciting rising talents and heroes of yesteryear … And look out when the Tests are done and dusted and the internationals flood the various brightly clad squads. Here follows a bunch of other reasons why you should be tuning in to BBL09.
not so GREAT ESCAPES • Some tennis clashes are so loaded with controversy, animosity and drama that players don’t want to win, so much as escape. Even the biggest names. Even at the Grand Slams …
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Talking with CHAMPIONS • In the production of his popular Talking With TK podcast, Tristan K’nell has interviewed a plethora of elite athletes. He recently distilled his chats into a book, Talking With Champions. Here, we present four intriguing extracts: interviews with some of the greatest Australian sportswomen of all time.
ONE ON ONE WITH NICK KAY • The Perth Wildcats and Aussie Boomers big man reflects on Australia’s recent FIBA World Cup campaign and where he sees Australian basketball going from here.
GRATITUDE • Australia’s seven-time BMX world champion has been to hell and back many, many times. But for her latest Olympic Games campaign, Caroline Buchanan has a brand-new weapon by her side.
COOLANGATTA GOLD • In 2019, one of Australia’s most iconic annual sporting events once again delivered on its eputation as a truly epic challenge between competitor and conditions.
BENEATH THE SURFACE • Swimming legend Libby Trickett’s opponents in the neighbouring lanes were fierce rivals and forces to be reckoned with, but they were nothing compared to the struggles she faced every day in her private battle against anxiety and depression.
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