Darren Kane

Sydney

Sports Columnist at Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney based sports and commercial lawyer | Sydney Morning Herald sports law columnist | Epicurean and raconteur. https://t.co/WDgQHxJwl3

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Watching the watchdog: Why new ARLC powers hurt the match review committee

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

Watching the watchdog: Why new ARLC powers hurt the match review committeeWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Sports Columnist June 21, 2025 — 9.40am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Run It Straight is anarchy in the guise of sport

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

Sports Columnist June 6, 2025 — 11.44am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nothing in life is straightforward, however straight you run. The concept of freedom and personal choice should be the exception, but there is always a line where it isn’t anymore.
Why clean athletes will never be allowed to compete in the doping games

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

Sports Columnist May 23, 2025 — 4.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Let’s be clear, this isn’t a column about sport. It’s a column about a circus freakshow, masquerading as sport. The concept of the Enhanced Games is grotesque. Where, apparently, the rules are there are no rules. Thunderdome-style.
We’ve been taught the opposite, but not all doping transgressions are equal

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Darren Kane

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We’ve been taught the opposite, but not all doping transgressions are equal

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

Sports Columnist May 10, 2025 — 9.44am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. South Africa’s Test fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has, up to this point in his career, played the exact same number of Test matches as did Dennis Lillee. The former has bowled roughly a third fewer balls than Lillee did in his entire Test career. Rabada has taken 28 fewer Test wickets, but at a better average that’s different enough to be significant.
Agents juggling players and coaches are afforded plenty of leeway

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Darren Kane

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Agents juggling players and coaches are afforded plenty of leeway

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

By Darren Kane April 26, 2025 — 10.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a legal context, there are two key ways of defining what actually is meant by the term conflict of interest. First off, a conflict of interest can arise in circumstances where a person owes a duty in respect of a matter in which they also have a personal interest.
Agents juggling players and coaches are afforded plenty of leeway

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Darren Kane

I don’t watch much of Anasta’s to-camera stuff, and I’ve no view whether his opinions favour his clients’ interests or not. But even if they do, do those circumstances constitute Anasta having a conflict of interest? Hardly. That would assume someone in Anasta’s position in the media lives in a soundproof room. Being prominent in the media isn’t relevant to either test.
Pucovski may face an uneven playing pitch when it comes to compensation

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Darren Kane

Sports Columnist April 12, 2025 — 9.40am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Will Pucovski always had that certain swagger about him, with a mountain of courage and fortitude. As an opening batsman must. Any instance of a professional athlete calling time on their career brings a spectrum of emotion. But when the athlete’s hand is forced due to an accumulation of incidents, the mood of the contemplation is much darker.
From Palaszczuk to Crisafulli: Clock is ticking for Brisbane 2032

Mar 28, 2025 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Darren Kane

Sports Columnist March 29, 2025 — 8.33am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you go back about four years, you’ll see that the political shenanigans in Queensland served as a portent to the future all along.