Straight Dope

Author: Chip Le Grand

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780522868500
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Imprint : Melbourne University Press
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Weight (g) : 0.433
Publication date : June 2015
Dimensions : 235mm X 148mm X 23mm
Produced in : Australia
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Availability date : June 2015
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Author : Chip Le Grand
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Edition : 715
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Language : en
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Pages : 232
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Description

What happened at Essendon, what happened at Cronulla, is only part of the story. From the basement office of a suburban football club to the seedy corners of Peptide Alley to the polished corridors of Parliament House, The Straight Dope is an inside account of the politics, greed and personal feuds which fuelled an extraordinary saga. Clubs and coaches determined to win, a sports scientist who doesn't play by the rules, a generation of footballers held hostage by scandal and injected with who knows what, sport administrators hell bent on control, an anti-doping authority out of its depth, an unpopular government that just wants it to end for two tumultuous seasons this was the biggest game in Australia.

Author description

Chip Le Grand is a journalist who has written about sport, crime and politics for more than 20 years. His coverage of the Essendon drugs scandal won awards from the Melbourne Press Club and the Australian Sports Commission and was short-listed by the Walkley Foundation. This is his first book.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.