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The Ticket podcast: politics, governance, business of sport. Journalist, broadcaster, interviewer. Don’t confuse noise for substance.
Sydney and the worldabc.net.au/radio/newsradi…Joined July 2009

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Serena. There is only one. Regarded as the greatest of all time, her legendary status extends way beyond the tennis court. There have been challenges, controversies, and celebrations. Above it all, she has changed the game forever. #Serena #USOpen #GOAT𓃵
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Sport can no longer be a retrofit, according to Australia’s #sports minister on the eve of the #JobsSummit. Women athletes are not just ‘male athletes with boobs’, she says in this 5 minute bite-size edition of The Ticket.
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Tom Brady, father of 3, can retire and unretire at 44; LeBron James, father of 3, can sign a 2 year, $97.1 million contract extension at 37. “It comes to a point where women sometimes have to make different choices than men, if they want to raise a family,” says #SerenaWilliams
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New @TIME cover — @serenawilliams, and what she gave the world --- time.com/6208915/serena
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I’m not sure absolution will come for myself in this story. I think enough people have believed what they believe but…I don’t want history to view the players as being drug cheats. Because they’re not…And they did nothing wrong.”
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Some will advise that he is the one who can heal the division, that this is his chance to be absolved.   Others will remind him of the machine that chewed up and spat out a once favourite son, and warn him of the consequences of putting himself in that position again.
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At the time of the interview he said the experience had changed him, he had become a lot harder, he doesn’t trust as much, but ultimately, he said, he still put’s faith in good values and good people. Those good people are the ones whose wise counsel he is now seeking, no doubt.
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From day one stories were being leaked, confidential information was being given to AFL friendly media, and ASADA was forced to issue a reminder that publicly releasing confidential information could be punished with up to two years in jail.
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In 2016 he said he understood why people thought about him that way.   “One of the really disappointing things in this case is that we as a football club, and I know the people, are so anti drugs, the people involved, the players who are the ultimate victims, are so anti drugs.
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