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Title:
A Sporting Chance: Australian Sporting Scandals and the Path to Redemption
Written by:
Titus O'Reily 
Read by:
Titus O'Reily 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
8 hours 23 minutes 
Published:
May 28 2019 
Available Date:
May 28 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655604648 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Sport 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia 
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Ridiculous Australian tales of sporting stuff-ups and forgiveness by the bestselling author of A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport.

In sport, the term ‘good bloke’ doesn't mean what it says. Like ‘fun run’, it often actually means exactly the opposite. Titus O’Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation’s sportspeople are so readily forgiven for doing terrible things. With ridiculous tales from Australia’s chequered sporting history, A Sporting Chance dissects the scandals big and small, the mistakes made in covering them up and the path athletes tread back to redemption. From the Essendon supplements saga and the sandpaper-loving Australian cricket team to whatever it is Nick Kyrgios has done now, Titus reveals the archetypes at the heart of our greatest sporting scandals. There’s the corrupt cop who gave us the race that stopped a nation and the boxing champion who refused to train. There’s the cashed-up businessmen who bankrupted clubs and the commentators who can’t get their foot out of their mouth. And of course there’s the good blokes, like Wayne Carey, Matthew Johns and Shane Warne, who it seems we’ll forgive for absolutely anything. In his rambling and at times incoherent style, Titus asks the question: are Australians really that forgiving of their sporting heroes? With the rise of social media, women’s sport and the drive towards greater equality, are the good blokes of Australia’s sporting landscape an endangered species?

'An indispensable voice for serious fans, who need to be reminded to take sport a little less seriously.'
Inside Sport

'A Sporting Chance is a rogues’ gallery of badly behaved sports stars and their scandals and asks why Australians are so quick to forgive and forget the most appalling behaviour.'
The New Daily