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The Tom Aspinall Problem

27 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Tom Aspinall is the UFC heavyweight champion and clearly the best in that division in the UFC. Tom Aspinall has beaten three of the four best contenders in the UFC’s heavyweight division. So, what’s the problem? Aspinall is a disputed heavyweight champion. But it’s not Aspinall’s fault. His recent history in the UFC could have been told by Lemony Snicket. In 2022, in what was meant to be his coronation in London, Aspinall tore his knee 15 seconds into fighting Curtis Blaydes after having won his first five UFC fights. Then, after coming back and winning the interim heavyweight championship,…

Erasing the Ghosts of Munich: Inter Milan's Perfect UCL Start

23 Oct 2025 • Chandler Milligan

Internazionale don’t need to be reminded, but remember when they lost 5-0 in the UCL Final and made history with the heaviest defeat in a UEFA Champions League Final? Humiliation doesn’t even begin to cover it. One of the greatest clubs in football history, embarrassed beyond comprehension. They are now known as the team that gave both Manchester City and PSG their first-ever UCL titles. History vs money, and money won. The 2024/25 season was one of total punishment for the Inter Milan faithful. Inter Milan gave both Manchester City and PSG their first ever Champions League trophy 🏆 😬…

Kyle Shanahan is a World Builder

22 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

As I watched the series finale of Task last night, tearing up during Mark Ruffalo’s Oscar bait speech, I got to thinking about what I would do if my son killed my wife. I moved on pretty quickly after I realised I have neither a son nor a wife and instead started thinking about structure. TASK on HBO has truly reminded us all just how incredible of and actor Mark Ruffalo is. This entire sequence was insanely emotional and I believe we’ll get him a nomination come Emmys next year. pic.twitter.com/W3Xf9CQl3A— Movie Files (@MovieFilesLive) October 20, 2025 Brad Inglesby, the…

Three Takeaways from the Trade Period

21 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Trade period has ended, as it always does, with a rush. But this one was like The Godfather with the way it came home with an especially wet sail. It even finished like The Godfather with Tom Petroro demanding Hawthorn not tell him they’re innocent, because it’s insulting, and it makes him very angry. Zach Merrett’s manager Tom Petroro visibly animated in the Hawks trade room as a Zach Merrett mood looks more and more unlikely with just 7 minutes remaining until the deadline. pic.twitter.com/O427giFHqQ— Ball Don’t Lie (@BDLShow) October 15, 2025 They could’ve thrown Cam McKenzie in the deal…

Drake Maye is a One Man Rebuild

15 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Success at the quarterback position in the NFL now, for the first time in living memory, has a lot of the same prerequisites as success in the rest of the league. All the new quarterbacks coming into the league have to be big, fast, smart, and strong. The quarterback’s general ability to turn chicken shit into chicken salad, at least partly because line play has gone the way of Mike Lombardi’s talent evaluation rather than the way of his ever-expanding ego, is now 80% of the cake rather than the icing. Mike Lombardi is a wild human being. https://t.co/N7rcqfBWYZ pic.twitter.com/VJvZy3Wc4a—…

The Harden Scale

13 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

How toxic do you want to make this? That’s the question at the heart of the final three days of the AFL’s trade period. That question is lingering so ominously because it’s the one that I imagine each the three biggest questions marks of the trade period are asking themselves. Christian Petracca, Zach Merrett, and Charlie Curnow each need to work out their appetite to make it truly toxic for their clubs, so that their clubs holding them to their contracts is truly untenable. Are they in an unhappy marriage that they’ll stick out for the kids? Or are they…

Has Barcelona's High Line Been Exposed?

9 Oct 2025 • Chandler Milligan

Yes. It seems to have been exposed. It’s hard to believe that little over a year ago, with Barcelona’s new era under Hansi Flick beginning with a bang, that football fans across the world thought the Catalans and their offside trap were lunatics. Real Madrid had just signed Kylian Mbappe, one of the fastest forwards in world football, and added him alongside the already rapid Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo. Everybody expected them to feast on Barcelona, but what followed was one of the most dominant sweeps in El Clásico history. Barcelona have been 𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 in El Clásicos this season: 16…

The 2025 Trade Value Column: Part 2

8 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

Following on from Part 1, let’s run through the 15 players with the highest trade value in the AFL. If you want to read how we ranked players 30-16 you can find that here. But let’s go through the best of the best. Right in Their Primes 15. Hugh McLuggae, 27, 6 years left 14. Ed Richards, 26, 5 years left 13. Chad Warner, 24, 2 years left 12. Zak Butters, 25, 1 year left 11. Izak Rankine, 25, 2 years left 10. Noah Anderson, 24, 2 years left Are you noticing a pattern here? We’re into the top-15 and…

The 2025 Trade Value Column: Part 1

7 Oct 2025 • GuyWhoLikesSport

I don’t know if you can tell based on the truly insufferable coverage, but the trade period is on! Even despite the fact that it’s virtually impossible to microwave a team by paying sticker price for players other clubs are willing to let walk, don’t let that stop the chat about whose fortunes Connor Budarick is going to singlehandedly change. "He's toured Arden Street and the Whitten Oval and it is down to those two clubs." @JoshGabelich breaks down where Connor Budarick could play in 2026 on the Continental Tyres AFL Trade Radio: https://t.co/CX6xu3ke56 pic.twitter.com/1qTyA5sPg6— AFL (@AFL) October 2, 2025…

From The Couch: NRL Grand Final

7 Oct 2025 • Nick Tedeschi

The Greatest Grand Final Performance Ever: Reece Walsh’s performance in the Grand Final was the finest individual performance in Grand Final history, a match-winning showing that will live on through the ages. Whether it was with ball in hand or in defence, Walsh continued to impact the match from the opening minutes until the full-time siren. He finished with a try, three try assists and 14 tackle breaks but that hardly tells the full story. His try was Steve Jackson in style as he just powered through the Storm, his passing was as pin point as you could ever hope…