Sportzfan Radio: Recent Episodes
Mark Seymour
The thinking person's sports show.
The Professor and the panel of the Judge, the Gelding, Coutta, Paul Dalligan, Sarah Radlow and Dan Butterly give their weekly take on all the current issues in sport.
Alan Pearce PhD talks with "the Professor" and "the Judge," and provides his expert comments on concussion, CTE and recent incidents in the AFL.
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Sportzfan Radio's NRL expert, Paul Dalligan gives his annual season preview and predicts how the NRL ladder will look at the end of the season.
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The panel of the Professor, the Judge, Coutta and Paul Dalligan spoke with Wayne Holdsworth about the death of his son Mac and his mission for change on suicide to spare other families the same heartbreak. He has a three point plan and talks about suicide prevention with the panel including establishing, with Peninsula Healthcare, a support service for young people called S(MAC)K Talk.
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINES AND SUPPORT SERVICES
If you are facing a mental health crisis or suicidal ideation, you are not alone.
Help is available.
Lifeline: 131114 lifeline.org.au
Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 suicidecallbackservice.org.au
Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636
MensLine Australia: 1300 789 978
The panel of the Professor, the Judge, the Gelding and Paul Dalligan talk with Associate Professor Michael Buckland, Head of the Department of Neuropathology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Australian Sports Brain Bank about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), concussion, the cumulative effect of hits to the head and body and the relevance of the number of years a person plays contact sports to the development of CTE.
For further details about CTE go to brainbank.org.au
The Professor, the Judge, Coutta and Paul Dalligan talk with special guest, the First Serve's, Brett Phillips about whether Australia can win the Davis Cup final and makes some predictions for the coming 2024 Australian Open. They also talk about the option of the US College pathway for young Australian tennis players, the National Tennis Academy and Brett says to keep a close eye on prospect, James Watt over the next twelve months.
Sportzfan Radio rugby league expert, Paul Dalligan talks with the Professor about the start to the 2023 NRLW season, attempts to predict the finishing order of the ladder at the end of the season and reviews round 21 of NRL action.
Paul Dalligan gives his predictions on how the NRL ladder will look at the end of the 2023 season, who will take off the premiership, who will win the Dally M and who will be 2023's top try scorer.
Melanie Bond is a partner at Corrs. She recently discussed with the Sportzfan Radio panel, the proposed new Hobart stadium that is seen as pivotal to Tasmania getting a licence for an AFL side.
Dr Eric Windholz, a Senior Lecturer in the Law faculty at Monash University, talks with the panel about the very important subject of transgender and intersex issues in sport. He discusses FINA, Caster Semenya and Lia Thomas.
Coutta and the panel preview the Wimbledon tennis tournament and particularly look at each of the Australian players and their chances.
Susie Q Ramadan didn't start boxing until she was 26. In her fourth fight she won the Australian super-bantamweight title. Over the next fourteen years she has collected five world boxing titles including the WBF super-bantamweight title, WBF bantamweight title, IBF bantamweight title, the WBC bantamweight title and in her last fight before Covid struck in February 2020, the IBA super-flyweight title. She boasts a current record of 31 fights for 28 wins (12 by KO) and 3 losses. Her next fight is later this year.
The panel spoke with Leesa Catto about all things AFLW. Leesa has had a lengthy history in women's football, is a life member of the forerunner to the AFLW, the Victorian Women's Football League and is a noted and respected commentator on women's football.
The Sportzfan panel spoke with Brad Johnson about his AFL career. He's a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame having played 17 seasons with the Western Bulldogs was a 3 time Club best and fairest winner, 5 time Club leading goalkicker, 6 time All Australian selection, spent 4 years as captain of the Club and was a member of the Western Bulldogs Team of the Century. He's now a member of the Fox Footy commentary team and, with his wife, founded Zena Sport, a company that makes protective vests for women playing sport.
The panel spoke with Professor Clare Hanlon, the Susan Alberti Women in Sport chair at Victoria University, about why change needs to occur in women's sport.
Simone started playing baseball when she was 6 years old and at an early age was pitching against adults. She went on to represent the Australian Emeralds as a starting pitcher in every national team between 2001 and 2008. Simone was coach of the Emeralds from 2013 to 2018 and in 2012 was the first woman and the youngest person to be admitted to the Australian Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2013 she was voted into the top 100 Australian Sportswomen of all time.
We spoke with Shaun Ryan, former AFL umpire, shortly after he retired at the conclusion of the 2020 season after 17 years, 350 games and 8 Grand Finals. A wide ranging discussion with the panel from how he started in umpiring through to the difficulty in interpreting rule changes.
We spoke with golf professional and coach, Sandy Jamieson. Sandy is the former pro at Commonwealth Golf Club who left the world of private golf clubs to start up One Club Golf at public courses. He says golf is not a difficult game.
The panel spoke with rower Jack Kelly, a winner at the Australian National Championships on a number of occasions and a semi finalist at the Henley Royal Regatta. He says most of the Australian rowers today are mid 20's and to be successful you need to understand that it is a full time job and you can't do anything else.
When we spoke with Aleksandra she was a Ph D student in Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University in Perth. Aleksandra or Ola for short was involved in a Concussion Recovery study (CREST) and joined the panel to talk about the effects of mild traumatic brain injury or, as it is more commonly known, concussion.
Dane Roy was working as an ice cream sales representative when he won an AFL longest kick competition. That win catapulted Dane into US College football as a punter with the University of Houston. Dane played 50 games for the Cougars, won American Athletic Conference first team honours in 2019 and was a finalist in the prestigious Ray Guy award in the same year.
Luke came through the Penrith junior pathway and played over 350 games of rugby league for the Penrith Panthers, NSW State of Origin, Australian Kangaroos and finished his career with the Cronulla Sharks. He tasted success playing in premiership teams with both the Panthers and Sharks. He now uses his knowledge of the game in commentary for the ABC.
In part 2 of the discussion with Axel, we talk about how he got his role of Merumeru in Star Wars and the sliding doors moment when he had to make the choice between basketball and a career on the silver screen.
Sportzfan Radio's rugby league expert, Paul Dalligan previews the 2022 NRL season and predicts the end of season finishing places from 16-1. In 2021 he picked 7 out of the top 8 correctly and 3 of 4 preliminary finalists. Can he beat that record this year?
Axel Dench talks with the Professor about how he started his basketball career, being a member of the 1999 Gonzaga college basketball team that made the 'Elite Eight' at the NCAA championships, being selected as rookie of the year in the NBL in 2001 and he was a member of the Illawarra Hawks that were NBL champions in the same year. Perhaps he is better known as Wookie chieftain, Merumeru in the Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith.
The Professor, the Judge, Coutta and Paul Dalligan talk about the problems that face the AFLW with the gap between the good teams and the not so good and how those problems will be magnified when four new teams are admitted to the competition before the start of next season.
In part 2, we talk with Cameron about a Tasmanian AFL side, the fight to save Richmond FC, how Fitzroy would have survived under today's AFL administration and what makes a good coach.
Cameron Schwab speaks with the authority of having been the CEO at three different AFL clubs. Aside from his experience as a senior manager in sport, he is also a leadership mentor, writer and artist. In this episode we cover the draft, free agency, draft compensation, destination clubs and expansion clubs including Tasmania.
Amy has been playing baseball since she was 12 and played centre field for the Australian Emeralds from 2002 until 2014. She won silver (2010) and bronze medals (2014) at the Women's World Cup and represented Victoria over a period of 12 years winning 7 national titles. Her baseball journey started with the Kissing Point Angels.
After 13 years as the CEO of World Vision, Tim Costello is now a spokesperson for the Alliance for Gambling Reform. In this episode he talks about gambling developing to the extent that it has become an addiction and a public health issue.
Why hasn't St Kilda FC won a premiership since 1966? Grant Thomas provides his take on what the club needs to address to make the last day in September.
Grant is well placed to comment having played 72 games for the club and coached St Kilda from 2001 until 2006. He has also written for the Age, appeared on SEN and was part of the Footy Classified panel on channel 9.
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