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Sports Factor (Sports Talk)

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  • Host: Mick O'Regan
  • The Sports Factor debates and celebrates the cultural significance of sport. From the global spectacle of the Olympic Games, to a local Little Athletics meeting, sport is a dynamic force that both reflects and creates values. The Sports Factor goes beyond the "scores and groin injuries" style of sports reporting to talk about how sport intersects with other social institutions like politics, economics, art, religion, law, and health.
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Footywild

Fri, Aug 29
The third Australian football international cup is about to get underway in Victoria

Britain & the Beijing games

Fri, Aug 29
As we know, the Australian team won an impressive 14 Gold Medals

Globalisation and sport

Fri, Aug 22
Globalisation now describes just about everything, from the way we do business right through to the way we watch the Olympics

Sirens in the saddle

Fri, Aug 15
Life as a jockey is hard: pre-dawn starts, hard riding and lots of work to get the maximum performance from the gallopers

Rings of security

Fri, Aug 8
Athletic excellence aside, Olympic organisers want the games safe and secure

Launching a rocket: Rodney Eade and Australian Rules football

Fri, Aug 1
For many years Rodney Eade has been an important figure in Australian Rules football - as a player with Hawthorn, as a coach with the Sydney Swans and now the Western Bulldogs, and simply as one of the game's most interesting thinkers

The blade runner

Fri, Aug 1
Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who runs on carbon fibre blades, has managed to get within one second of the able-bodied qualifying time for the 100 metres sprint

Olympic Security

Fri, Aug 1
If there's one thing the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games should have in spades, it's security

Harry Gordon: Living, breathing and writing the Olympics

Fri, Jul 25
Harry Gordon first set out to report on the Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and now, more than half a century later, he's turned his gaze to Beijing

Low yield from track and field

Fri, Jul 18
The announcement that Jana Rawlinson won't be competing in Beijing has further thinned the ranks of Australian athletes in genuine medal contention

North South divide

Fri, Jul 18
Exactly 100 years ago Rugby Union split in Australia, with the formation of the rival Rugby League code

Cadel Evans & Le Tour

Fri, Jul 18
Australian interest in the Tour de France has peaked this year because of the possibility that our very own Cadel Evans might just be there at the end, being awarded the winner's yellow jersey

The weird world of darts

Fri, Jul 11
It's not quite the sport of kings, but darts (yes darts) inspires passionate fans and charismatic champions

Looking Beyond Depression for Australia's sportswomen

Fri, Jul 4
An important new initiative to raise awareness of depression among women and girls has been launched, combining the resources of BeyondBlue, Netball Australia and a major women's health club group

The sporting north

Fri, Jun 27

Re-inventing the game they love: the champions' touch.

Fri, Jun 20
The late Dick "Tosser" Turner and Tiger Woods don't seem to have much in common

The Callinan Report

Fri, Jun 13
The highly anticipated Callinan report has just been released into what led to the outbreak of equine influenza in Australia

The court of arbitration for sport

Fri, Jun 13
Nick D'Arcy was dropped from the Australian Olympic swimming team, after assaulting a fellow swimmer

The Hockeyroos and Beijing

Fri, Jun 13
One of Australia's most successful sporting units is our women's hockey team, the Hockeyroos

The demise of the Kings

Fri, Jun 13
After many years in the national league the Sydney Kings have now been kicked out of the commpetition

Can Australian basketball bounce back?

Fri, Jun 6

Masters sport: never too old, never too late

Fri, May 30
Whoever suggested sport was only for the young never went to the World Masters Games

National Museum tackles rugby league history

Fri, May 23
The centenary of rugby league is prompting discussion around the country, and not just on the sidelines

Raising the Red (and Blue) Flag

Fri, May 16
Famous Englishmen in Moscow used to suggest espionage, but now it's about football

Sport, violence and the law

Fri, May 9
In the old days, what happened on the field stayed on the field, but some argue times have changed

Callinan, quarantine and the sporting horse

Fri, May 2
Former High Court judge, Justice Ian Callinan has conducted a comprehensive inquiry into the circumstances leading to the outbreak of equine influenza in Australia, which the Federal government is now considering

Whatever happened to the humble champion?

Fri, Apr 25
When did all that sporting self-belief, determination and skill morph into selfishness and crass petulance? How come Rod Laver and Lew Hoad seem to be from a different planet to Anthony Mundine and Ben Cousins

Sport and the military

Fri, Apr 25
Anzac Day seems an appropriate time to consider the relationship between sport and the military

The curse of Billy Penn

Fri, Apr 18
If you love sport, take pity on the fans of Philadelphia

Rugby League Cracks a Ton

Fri, Apr 11
Australia's Rugby League competition is about to celebrate a centenary of big hits, runaway tries and a bit of biff

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