This week's awkward questions
Why not delete that useless 'mindfulness' app and just watch Fred Trueman presenting esoteric English pub games every morning?
The Rugby Championship only really got interesting when we lost hey?
Wondering how World Rugby will possibly mess up a mini world cup every year?
Temuera Morrison playing Eddie Jones = wait for the DVD. Jake the Muss playing Eddie Jones = queuing up at the theatre.
Enjoying Mourinho's 'innocent bystander' phase? Hoping he stays for the season, just for the masterful press conferences?
How is your NZ sport inquiry season going so far? Seriously, the Football Ferns deserve much credit for standing up to NZ Football and setting the ball rolling. The bar has been set for all the other enquiries (see page six). It should be funny, but it's really not.
Regretting all the times you should've just Andy Martin-ed it and retired every time the going got tough at work?
Were you remotely surprised the Roosters deployed a cloud of bullshit around their star man's injury pre-grand final?
Why couldn't Tottenham have got 'World Cup Leo' rather than 'proper Leo'?
Thanks for reading - Richard
The week's best NZ sport writing
The women working behind the scenes to make real change in NZ sport, with several wins on the board already [Locker Room]
The Listener's Paul Thomas on Bryson DeChambeau, the US golfer using a kind of scientific Moneyball to hack the game [noted.co.nz]
Dylan Cleaver with the big picture view on what this year's All Black campaign means for next year's wold cup, along with some fair questions (mainly around goal kicking) [NZ Herald]
Second Steve Deane story of the week - the slow death of the sports club volunteer. If you've felt guilty at your lack of time through your kids football prize giving, this one's for you [News Room]
Video nasty
Ignoring handbags isn't as easy as it looks team.
Long read
This guy doesn't know anything - just in case you weren't already massively alarmed by the US President, here's the maestro Michael Lewis on his transition team's casual-as attitude to taking over the free world [The Guardian]
Bonus link: Photo essay capturing when cricketers retire [Cricket Monthly]
Selected weekend fixtures
All Blacks v South Africa at Loftus Versfeld brings the Rugby Championship to a close, it's on at 4.05am Sunday morning on SKY
The Silver Ferns have another crack at Australia on Sunday afternoon at 3pm from Brisbane, it's on SKY
Liverpool v Man City at 4.30am Monday morning is the pick of this EPL round, it's on BeIN
Bring back the gif
When your phone breaks and you have to use an old Nokia for a week.
