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In the final segment of our mega episode, Andrew & AJ reveal the number 1 sporting events we've ever seen live... And give a bit of cheek to the worst as well. We remember massive events from around the world, local league games and plenty more including stacks of your listener favourites as well. Thanks to everyone who sent us your picks and special thanks to Beefy from 365 days of sport and our great friend Erin Delahunty for sending us an audio message! Want to give us a call? Send us a voice message with your sporting thoughts using the link a little further down. Don’t forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show go ahead and subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

IN part 2 of this mega episode, Andrew & AJ continue telling the tales of the best sporting events we've ever seen live. We remember massive events from around the world, local league games and plenty more including stacks of your listener favourites as well. Thanks to everyone who sent us your picks and special thanks to Beefy from 365 days of sport and our great friend Erin Delahunty for sending us an audio message! Want to give us a call? Send us a voice message with your sporting thoughts using the link a little further down. Don’t forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show go ahead and subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Andrew & AJ return to select the best six sporting events we've ever seen live. This one was so chock-a-block we had to break it into three parts!  We switch to storytelling mode as we remember massive events from around the world, local league games and plenty more including stacks of your listener favourites as well. Thanks to everyone who sent us your picks and special thanks to Beefy from 365 days of sport and our great friend Erin Delahunty for sending us an audio message! Want to give us a call? Send us a voice message with your sporting thoughts using the link a little further down.  Don’t forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show go ahead and subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Rest time is OVAH. Time to get back into it so Andrew & AJ are coming back big - its DRAFT SEASON! Andrew & AJ will be selecting the best of the best, cream of the crop of the sporting universe. Club songs, finals formats, team jerseys, world cup finals, niche sporting memories - you name it. It's a new draft format every week, starting with this 'Sporting team songs' draft. Andrew & AJ select their best six and look at the weird, wonderful and also downright nasty world of sporting theme songs. There's a few worthy of debate and plenty of qualifiers, caveats and asterixes thrown around. Check it out and let us know your own draft order! Don’t forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show go ahead and subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

We're having a good old expression session! What’s REALLY annoying you about #sport right now? Andrew & AJ tell it like it is, and listeners get their sporting angst off their chest too. Points of contention include: Sports 'journalists' who don't know anything about more than one sport Crowd violence and the d*ckheads who start it Eurosnob football fans who don't go to the A-League Blowouts in the NBA playoffs The AFL treating AFLW as an afterthought Refs faulters and umpire blamers... What is wrong with people? This, plus plenty more. Got some sporting angst you want to unload? This is the place to get it said. Follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, join us every week on YouTube and you can even leave a voice comment at the link below. Join in and be part of the fun! Don't forget to like our pages, subscribe to the show, tell your friends and family and please leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! #SportsOfAllSorts  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

A Sporting Discussion returns after an injury-enforced break! In this episode: AJ enthrals with the heroic, epic tale of how he ruptured his achilles and his post-surgery recovery  The NRL's Magic Round is a success once more. What other sports could use a similar event? Media reporting of crowd brawls, and crowd brawls in general What should a supporter do when your team is bad - like really, really, bottom of the barrel bad? Plus much more, including the latest round of listener questions! As promised in the show, some interesting links. If you're game, watch NFL free agent Tarik Cohen rupture his achilles live on instagram, read about how Cincinnati Reds President and CFO Phil Castellini responded to criticisms from the fans, and in memory of the great Andrew Symonds, watch his legendary takedown of a naked pitch invader in 2008. Don't forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us every week on YouTube. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Andrew and AJ return to the ASD Cloud Stadium to get stuck into the latest big sporting issues. In this show: - We revel in the overreactions to trial matches in the AFL and NRL - The debacle that is 'in play advertising' in the A-Leagues - The new Fox Sports Netball broadcast deal looks great, but why can't we know what it's worth? - Alex Zverev's clownshow: What punishment is fit for his outrageous behaviour? Plus much more!   Don't forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us LIVE every week. Come along and be part of the fun. If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps more people get involved. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Plenty to talk about this week. Join a COVID-free Andrew and the ever reliable AJ to get stuck into sports of all sorts! He might have ‘won’ his battle with Australia’s Border Force, but should Novak Djokovic be playing in Melbourne? What has Usman Khawaja done wrong? What have we done to deserve this dry, flavourless Big Bash League? Is there a solution for the horrific injury rate in the AFLW competition? How many times would you guess correctly the outcome of 16 coin tosses? This plus much more, including AJ celebrating his beloved Cincinnati Bengals making the playoffs for the first time since 2015. Follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us LIVE every week. Come along and be part of the fun. If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Andrew's got the 'rona but unlike all these other cowards, he’s turning up to talk #SportsOfAllSorts with AJ Mithen. Join us as we start 2022 by getting stuck into the sporting events of the summer so far: Novak Djokovic gets punted from Australia to cheers and jeers - but what does it mean for the country's sporting reputation? Coronavirus runs rampant in world sport Why doesn't Australia help to grow world cricket? Which sporting league will be first to let COVID-positive athletes play?  Follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us LIVE every Wednesday around 8pm EDST. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

What are the biggest disgraces in sports history? This week Andrew and AJ talk about great #sport scandals! Liars, cheats, dodgy ethical line blurring, cover-ups, you name it, we're onto it. Good fun and much outrage!  Follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us LIVE every Tuesday at 8pm EDST. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Andrew and AJ welcome back great friend of the show Erin Delahunty, who was recently announced as one of 15 selected to participate in the 2021-22 Change Our Game Women in Sports Broadcasting Program. Erin tells us about the program and what it means for her and for women looking for opportunities to move into sports broadcasting. We can't have Erin on the show without getting into some netball talk either, so there's plenty of that too.   Erin Delahunty is a freelance journalist who writes all there is to know about netball for Guardian Australia. Her first book ‘Netball Heads’, alongside UK sports journalist Denise Evans, will be available through Orphans Publishing in early 2022. We appreciate her cutting into her sleeping time to talk to us while she produces breakfast radio for the ABC! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and we are LIVE every Tuesday at 8pm EDST. Join in and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

In this week's show, AJ and Andrew welcome Associate Professor Alan Pearce PhD to talk about concussion in sport.  What is concussion? How do you get concussed, and how do you recover?  Concussion is a complex issue in sport of all levels, from the elite to the suburbs. So enjoy this fascinating chat where Alan busts common concussion myths, answers questions from listeners and cuts through the guff to give us nothing but the facts. For more information about Alan's work, visit www.neurosportslabs.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and join us LIVE every Wednesday at 8pm EDST. Come along and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

In their second live show, Andrew and AJ ask what level of misbehaviour will fans tolerate before walking away from a player, their team, or a sport? How easily do people seperate from their everyday values when it's their favourite player doing the offending? We also ask if Josh Giddey is the real deal, add up the concussions for Will Pucovski, Mattress Mack's massive baseball bets and heaps more.   You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and we are LIVE every Wednesday at 8pm EDST. Join in and be part of the fun! If you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

In a special episode of A Sporting Discussion, Andrew and AJ speak to author Martin Lenehan about his book 'The Ashes'  Martin Lenehan is a sports writer and author who was formerly editor of Inside Edge magazine. He has covered the game in print and on radio for more than 25 years. He is also the author of ‘110 Years of Rugby League’ and ‘Baggy Green Legends’. His book 'The Ashes: 140 Years of Rivalry, Rituals and Respect' is a collection of behind-the-scenes stories and hundreds of images showcasing the skill and talent of the men and women who play for their country and the history, prestige and rivalry of the clashes between Australia and the old enemy, England.  The foreword of the book is written by Ian Healy, one of Australia’s finest glovemen, and Martin spoke to a huge number of Aussie cricketing greats including Greg Chappell, Doug Walters, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazelwood, Mike Hussey and Christina Matthews. It's a great chat about one of Australian sport's most enduring and stirring contests! Don’t forget to follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter and if you enjoy the show why not subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review – this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

In this episode of A Sporting Discussion, Andrew and AJ are joined by special guest host, our favourite guest, gun freelance sports journo, netball expert and reigning Murray Netball League premiership defender Erin Delahunty. Erin tells us all about her upcoming book 'Netball Heads', co-written with British writer Denise Evans. It's an in-depth guide to the inspirational international netball players of the modern game. We also take a look at India's phenomenal test series win over Australia in the cricket, and wonder if we're all being a bit harsh on the 'tennis brats' currently stuck in hard quarantine ahead of the Australian Open. If you enjoy the show, hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show to be seen by more people. Your support is greatly appreciated! You can also follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, or at our sleek-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

This week Andrew and AJ welcome back 'good friend of the show', cricket writer and broadcaster Adam Collins. It's always a great chat with Adam - he covers more ground than Jonty Rhodes and is as forensic as a spell from Anil Kumble. He talks about his experience getting home and quarantining in Australia, working out of hubs in the English summer and how COVID-19 affected the cricket world. We also get stuck right into the Australia v India test series, rejoice in the Indian pace attack and weigh up the pros and cons about whether Australia should give Will Pucovski his test debut in Sydney. You can also do yourself some good and listen to Adam's latest podcast 'The Greatest Season That Was: The Final Frontier'. If you enjoy the show hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, and check out our slick-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - ask us anything or give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

What a year across the world of sport in 2020. In this special 'year in review' episode of A Sporting Discussion, Andrew and AJ work their way through the UNPRECEDENTED sporting scenes from 2020. Which athletes stood out? What were the best moments? Who made the best decisions under fire? Did some sports make us lose a little faith in how they're managed? If you enjoy the show hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, and check out our slick-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - ask us anything or give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Breakdancing is in the Olympics and boy oh boy aren't the traditionalists up in arms about it! In this episode of A Sporting Discussion, Andrew and AJ celebrate the 'urban/youth' route the Paris 2024 committee has taken. What does it mean for a sport to be included in the Olympics? In the case of baseball, it's a massive blow for some countries. We talk about that and much more including the Big Bash League's funky, funky rule changes to keep distracted children focused on the fireworks, concussions to young gun batsmen and much more. If you enjoy the show hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, and check out our slick-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - ask us anything or give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

Finally, lockdown is over, freedom has returned and so has your favourite sporting podcast! Join Andrew and AJ as they reminisce about the highs and lows of being bailed up at home, and AJ puts out a cry for help to lose his lockdown lard. The pair then test each other with intense sporting questions without notice and respond to your listener questions too. Thanks to those who contributed! If you enjoy the show hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, or at our slick-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - ask us anything or give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message

AJ Mithen speaks with the head of Aussie Baseball about plans for Australian Baseball League season 20/21, the men's national team's path to the Olympics, the proposed women's ABL, broadcast plans and all the opportunities and challenges Aussie baseball has as an emerging sport in a COVID-19 affected world. If you enjoy the show hit subscribe, tell your friends and leave us a review - this helps the show get to more people. We appreciate the support! You can follow A Sporting Discussion on Facebook and Twitter, or at our new slick-lookin' website. We want to hear from you - ask us anything or give us your thoughts on the big sports issues! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asportingdiscussion/message