Whenever there is a scandal involving sportsmen behaving badly, we rightly decry the negative attitudes towards women that pervade so much of male sport.

THERE was no room for Anthony Rocca in a Collingwood team that ruckman Josh Fraser believes has the maturity and confidence to succeed where the grand final teams he played in earlier this decade failed.

AFTER following him for a couple of days, on Friday I received a request from the Dalai Lama to followme on Twitter.

JARRYD HAYNE scored two tries and led the statistics for metres gained, tackle busts and line breaks in yet another man of the match performance for Parramatta yesterday – but still the messages from the coach's box kept coming.

ESSENDON coach Matthew Knights says midfielder Mark McVeigh should forget about losing his chance to captain the AFL club and worry about playing football.