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SET your clocks for when South Sydney meet Canterbury next season.
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That's when Sam Burgess and James Graham can forget the pretence of being teammates and go at each other like they really want to go at each other while playing for England in the current World Cup. As opponents.
While currently masquerading as teammates, the pair are very much off with each other after the now infamous night out that saw Gareth Hock sent home in disgrace (for drink-driving half the team home) and several others disciplined behind closed doors.
The Poms are in turmoil at the moment. Mostly because Graham and Burgess came together in what in rugby league circles is variously described as a fracas, a set-to, a brouhaha or any other synonym care to be named, depending on what radio station you listen to.
No word on who got the victory, but the smart money is if they were allowed to keep fighting until one man got the victory then they would still be going.
Burgess has the athletic advantage but nobody has a better cold, dead stare, which hides all that silent intent, than Graham. In either case, there are few tougher players in the game.
Graham makes his World Cup debut tonight when the Poms take on Ireland which, by a strange coincidence, will feature no Burgess given his one match ban.
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THE Australian Sports Commission's intentions to boost corporate support for women's sport are admirable.
The ASC said this week it believes women's sport in Australia is "under-appreciated" and, to prove his point, chairman John Wylie said this week that he will approach the chairmen and CEO's of the ASX 100 companies to lure them into getting behind female athletes and their sports.
The first question the companies will ask is the first question of sport: what's in it for us?
For all the romance of Anna Meares' fight for Olympic gold, or the true grit of a Sally Pearson, the fact is every top level sport nowadays is about money. And what sells better than a pretty face?
Indeed, could it be asked that some of the women complaining that women are not judged on their sporting merits, but instead their looks, are guilty of their own prejudices?
Last month surfer Sally Fitzgibbons took home the Sportswoman of the Year Award at the I Support Women In Sport Awards, run by Women's Health magazine.
And why wouldn't she?
Bright, beautiful and highly marketable, Fitzgibbons is everything one of those ASX companies should want to get behind after finishing third in this year's world tour.
But did the people behind the award fall victim to the own prejudice?
"Sally's phenomenal determination and commitment for her sport — and her remarkable achievements in the surfing sphere, validates why she won the sought-after title of 2013 Women's Health Sports Woman of the Year," the mag's editor Felicity Harley said.
Included among the field Fitzgibbons beat for the award was fellow surfer Tyler Wright.
Wright finished second on the tour, above Fitzgibbons. If the award — by women for women — was about the achievement of women in sport, and not all the extras women protest, then why didn't Wright beat Fitzgibbons for the award?
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