I love sport. Love it. I can watch it for hours on end an my idea of luxury is spending the whole day on the couch watching the cricket.

I often find myself defending the importance of sport to me other lefty friends.

But let’s keep it in check. The current coverage of the Commonwealth Game is appalling. I’m all for revering sports people, celebrating their achievement and so on. However it is important to remember just what it is that sports people have achieved. They are really good at running, jumping, catching or what ever it is and that is fantastic, but that’s all it is.

Sally Pearson can run really fast, and that is fantastic. But all this crap about redemption, her being a role model and so on is just taking it too far.

Imagine if after all that she tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, or better still, cocaine. Then I might actually like her…

I was always quite fond of Chris Benoit (even if his name did remind me of a sex toy):

Professional wrestler Chris Benoit met with his personal physician hours before he allegedly killed his wife and son before hanging himself in his basement, the doctor said.

(How do you categories a post like this? Is it insensitive to categorise it as “sport”)

I know I’m a little slow off the mark with this one but what the bloody hell is up with Damien Martin’s resignation? Who does he think he is?

Bring on Symmo I say but I suspect it will be Watson that we see.

I thought I’d take a brief moment out of my day to make this small comment on my beloved Hawks.

Zac Dawson should not be playing full back. I understand and sympathise with Clarkson’s position that he needs a few tough lessons – clearly he does. I even buy the long term view stuff. The Hawks won’t win the flag this year but they might in the next few years.

However my concern is that he will be broken as a footballer and his career destroyed through a lack of confidence. He’s is not a great footballer and has this drilled into him by the media every time he plays on a half decent full forward. So now, not only is he young and lacking the necessary baulk, but he fucks it up every time he gets the ball because he is so terrified of making a mistake and so aware that everyone is watching him and collectively groaning every time he goes near the ball.

In time he may be a good footballer but now is not that time so lets not break him yet.