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I couldn’t jcentenera@insidesport .com.au You’ll see plenty of material from those fronts shake the question when reading about another this month, but it’s one of the World Cup this month – for ART DIRECTOR Allan Bender strengths of Inside Sport that it BEST QUOTE IN THE dodgeball. Yes, the game best [email protected] can reach beyond the sporting MAG THIS MONTH: known for the eponymous movie, mainstream to its edges. or American TV shows about ASSISTANT EDITOR Indeed, it’s been a core part of school PE traumas. James Smith [email protected] the magazine’s identity, from its Dodgeball’s familiar outlines earliest days, that we regard sport “Ithinkalotof have been shaped into an honest- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS as a broad church. We often find to-goodness sport. The the rivalry MattCleary,RobertDrane, ourselves in an argument with our Australian Sports Commission Brooke Longfield, Andrew Marmont soccer-mag colleagues in the just sprang recognised the nation’s official office, who have a highly defined dodgeball federation last May. GROUP EDITOR Kevin Airs view of what constitutes a sport naturally from When the Dodgeroos take to the [email protected] (read: global bureaucracy), and the fact the grand stage of Madison Square disdain our very liberal bent that Garden in New York for the Inside Sport on the web would include, well, almost other team is World Cup, it will be hard to make anything (although, we are finding the case that this isn’t genuine. www.insidesport.com.au it difficult to accept eSports). Collingwood EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: In this edition, we find ourselves LSO THIS MONTH: our cover [email protected], (02) 9901 6100 focused on some less-than- fullstop; there's subject, Nathan Cleary, was conventional sports. 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BY JEFF CENTENERA 6 EDITOR’S NOTE 28 TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW 52 ONE ON ONE: JORDAN MAILATA 10 THE BREAKDOWN 30 PUNTER’S CHANCE 66 ANATOMY OF A CHAMP 12 20 THINGS YOU MISSED 33 THE NUMBERS 74 ONE ON ONE: JO WESTON 14 FREEZE FRAME 34 FOUR THINGS YOU MUST NOT MISS 85 INSIDER 22 INSIDE AFL 36 YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO ... 94 HOT SHOT #2 24 INSIDE NRL 38 IN HINDSIGHT 96 SUBSCRIBE, SAVE & WIN 26 INSIDE SUPERCARS 42 HOT SHOT #1 98 IF I COULD CHANGE ONE THING 8 INSIDE SPORT | AUGUST 2018 THE BREAKDOWN Hoop Nightmare IN ONE OF THE UGLIEST SCENES WITNESSED ON A BASKETBALL COURT, A FIBA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND THE PHILIPPINES DESCENDED INTO A SICKENING BRAWL. The visiting Boomers were bouncing back smartly at er an upset loss to Japan a It had been a chippy, couple of days earlier, with Chris Goulding ill-tempered contest. and company building a big lead over the When the Philippines’ Filipinos at the game just outside Manila. 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