The Wooden Finger

  Yes, the AFL Power Rankings will be back here this season, but not for a few weeks. I'm thinking I'll change the format a bit th...

I’ve written quite a bit about minimum/award wages on this blog in recent months, but here’s one more post about the topic anyway. Submissio...

ART: You don’t have to be a sci-fi geek to like Joseph Cross’ art , but it probably helps. SPORTS: A lacrosse general manager acquires ...

As someone who tires quickly of the seemingly endless media speculation regarding which AFL coaches are under pressure to hold their jobs, I...

Picture: Carol Simpson Currently in the US, President Obama and other Democrats are proposing a rise in the (federal) minimum wage, wit...

In ‘The Book Of Basketball’, Bill Simmons claims that Boston Celtics' Hall of Famer Bob Cousy got ‘screwed historically’ in terms of...

Most AFL followers believe that ‘tanking’ – teams intentionally losing games, or at least not trying to win them - has occurred in the pa...

ECONOMICS: Does retail spending suffer in election years ? CRICKET: A relatively even era of Test cricket. MUSIC: One Direction fan...