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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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Shane Gould: to move is to live

Fri, Nov 28
As a precociously talented fifteen year-old Shane Gould was a shining star of the 1972 Munich Olympics

Show me the money, if there's any left

Fri, Nov 21

The rise of women's football

Fri, Nov 21
Women's football is booming

Batman wears gloves, and walks

Fri, Nov 14
Adam Gilchrist was a singular presence in the Australian cricket team - a player who wore his heart on his sleeve and pursued the spirit of the game as much as victory

Boy racer gets the chequered flag

Fri, Nov 7
Lewis Hamilton is rewriting the motor racing record books

The Maharajah of Moorabbin

Fri, Nov 7
Robert Harvey is an old-school Aussie Rules player

Football World Cup in South Africa

Fri, Oct 31
In 2010 the eyes of the football world will be focused on South Africa as the FIFA World Cup is hosted for the first time on the African continent

A good judge of horse flesh

Fri, Oct 24
As punters get ready to exchange some hard-earned for a little easy money, attention is turning to the spring racing carnival

The road to South Africa 2010

Fri, Oct 17
Let's bask for just a moment longer in the warm aftermath of that rain-swept, lighting-lashed Football World Cup qualifier in Brisbane on Wednesday night

Voices of veterans

Fri, Oct 17
When you're at the centre of the sporting firmament how difficult is it to overlook the cheering and focus on retirement? This week two greats of Australian rugby, George Gregan and Tim Horan, talk about the decision to go

Hard riding and hard choices

Fri, Oct 10
This week on the Sports Factor a special feature on this year's 'Tom Quilty' equestrian event in regional Queensland

Great sporting moments

Fri, Oct 10
Australians have a particular fascination with generating lists of sporting achievements, across categories and generations

Tribal minds, local passions

Fri, Oct 3
Why is it that some teams are able to inspire both love and loathing

Peter Troy

Fri, Oct 3
A tribute to the man widely hailed as the historian of surfing in Australia, Peter Troy

A few seconds of panic: a journalist's experience of high-performance sport

Fri, Sep 26
Everyone's an expert in the armchair, but what's it like to actually train, practice and perform in the real world of professional football, even for just a couple of months? American writer Stefan Fatsis recently found out

The last quarter: Martin Flanagan on footy

Fri, Sep 19
One of Australia's most respected sports writers, Martin Flanagan, has just published a book that chronicles a quarter of a century of writing on sport, life and politics

The Paralympics: powered by passion

Fri, Sep 12
The Paralympics not only feature some outstanding athletic performances, they also showcase the extraordinary determination of athletes who don't so much overcome their physical challenges as make them irrelevant

Rugby globalisation

Fri, Sep 12
European rugby is cashed up, self-contained and confident that it determines the global outlook of the game

Lance rides again

Fri, Sep 12
Lance Armstrong retired in 2005, but the lanky Texan who survived cancer to dominate cycling, is back

Lethal footsteps: The Matthews legacy

Fri, Sep 5
Leigh Matthews has been a powerful force in Australian Football, from his days as a star player at Hawthorn, through to his stunning achievements as a coach at both Collingwood and Brisbane AFL clubs

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

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