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Media personality Rex Hunt will fight charges he assaulted a Melbourne cyclist in an alleged road rage attack.

Andrew Demetriou says being drafted by a club is a "very important" part of Ben Cousins's rehabilitation.

Gary Ablett has urged Ben Cousins to stay away from bad acquaintances.

The Central Coast travels to Melbourne tonight to take on the Victory in a top-of-the-table A-League clash.

AFL Players Association (AFLPA) chief executive Brendon Gale says he is disappointed he was not consulted about the drug testing conditions attached to Ben Cousins's return to the game.

The AFL's chief executive Andrew Demetriou says the stringent conditions surrounding Ben Cousins's return to the sport are non-negotiable.

Update 27 July 2008: I"d been working on this post for about a month, and the very day I published it the Australian newspaper ran a major story covering many of the same topics and ideas, although it fails to acknowledge the role of intelligence in the social problems it discusses.

What is western society to do with the surplus humans that form the underclass? This conservative US article predicts living standards in first world countries will fall in the future based on the premise that western nations waste too much money supporting surplus humans in or from the third world....Read Full Article»

Hello Melbournemaniacs, Just a quick question - does anybody here make podcasts, as part of your blog or as a separate matter? Which podcast provider do you use? I am at the very beginning of my podcast quest, so I thought maybe someone knows more than I do. Google gives plenty of options (podcast.com, podcastalley.com), but I want some word-of-mouth please. Cheers....

In the space of five days, Melbourne has become notoriously famous for two things: a) Corey 'my sunnies are too cool for Hollywood' Delaney and b) the violent confrontation that marred a good match in the Australian Open....Read Full Article»

Was channel surfing free-to-air tele earlier, and caught about 10 seconds of the footy between West Coast Eagles and Collingwood. The commentator commented on how the semi finals (or perhaps footy?) is the greatest sporting spectacle in the world.

Seriously, get a life....Read Full Article»