Wrap - The White Buffalo Hoax

1. The Australian cricket season is almost at an end with an unending number of mysteries by an increasingly strange selection committee. Surely Boof Lehmann has to be closer than ever to the main coaches job. A South African in charge of us? Surely not. Voges has stepped up (finally), Bailey has stepped up. Doherty is doing well. If you were a first class cricketer in Australia, it has never been easier to make the top Australian teams. Baggy greens and yellow ODI caps are being given out like presents at Eddie Obeid's place.

Aaron Finch has done a Brad Hodge. Scored nothing, dropped catches and batted like a millionaire on heat. Chopping block nears.

1A. Can't wait for the rest of Warnie's report. He must be distracted with Liz. He has been a bit slow with his homework. Did anyone notice how none of those named even spoke about it?

2. The Drugs in Australian Sport fiasco. Call a federal election and then try and create alarm and make people anxious...with the only saviour the friendly government. Joke. Weed out the criminal element and the idiots and let the show keep rolling on.

A self dob-in line? It reminds me of a maths test at school when the teacher has no idea who was cheating. They ask the class "if you were cheating in this test that we just finished, see me at the end of the period". Ten students do - and the teacher thinks that there were only one or two! The whole class did not cheat however. The ones who are truly guilty never admit it.

It appears there are no names - just the opportunity to dob yourself in. They are kidding. Get the evidence or go away. It could just result in the biggest election loss for the Australian Labor Party since Federation.

3. All Stars v Indigenous. The excuses made up by NRL All Star players to avoid this game was staggering. The Indigenous boys were outstanding. They have spirit and deserved their win. ALL Melbourne stars bailed out. Cronk, Smith and Slater. Maybe a broken arm or leg might still happen. A few others were equally pathetic.

4. EPL. This year the comp is dead. ManU would have to refuse to turn up to lose. Man City are falling over their shoelaces and have been a major disappointment this year. The race for the Champions League positions is entertaining enough, but when a comp is solely governed by a 'first past the post' concept, this can happen. Tottenham's Gareth Bale is on fire. Chelsea stuttering too. Their coach will be sacked in the coming week or two. No risk.

5. $SBW and Botha (The White Buffalo). What a farcical fight. 10 rounds (not the supposed 12) and now Botha has tested positive to banned drugs. Why the WBA would want anything to do with these blokes is another story. What did he win anyway? Nothing. Khoder Nasser seems to revel in any controversy. He leads a complicated life.

6. Do yourself no favours and watch a little of the Fed Cup from Czechoslovakia. The noise and shennanighans by the crowd is a joke. It is so irritating you could hardly watch more than one game. Unbelievable.

7. Has anyone noticed that the current crop of bike riders - including Cadel Evans - have been surprisingly silent on the drugs in bike riding (Armstrong) controversy? No one keen to put themselves in the limelight over the issue? Why?