Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist and columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Analysis
- Tiger Woods
C’mon Tiger, again? How many cars can you roll before action is taken?
We can leave it to the police and lawyers to get to the bottom of the crash near Tiger Woods’ Florida home making headlines around the world.
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- Opinion
- NRL 2026
Get off the boos, Manly fans – or better still, boo your own awful team
Sea Eagles great Daly Cherry-Evans received a mixed reception on his return to Brookvale … to borrow a phrase from Jack Gibson, this mob would boo Santa Claus.
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- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
Meet the woman who fights to go into war zones
The Herald’s chief photographer Kate Geraghty is an award-winning war correspondent: her mission is to put a human face to the deadly realities of war.
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- Opinion
- Super Rugby
The Waratahs had the Blues beat. Then they beat themselves
By my count, there were ten times the Waratahs should have scored, only to blow their chance in ever more inventive ways.
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- Opinion
- Matildas
The only sports star I’ve seen who could rival Sam Kerr’s supernatural sense of timing
Her goal in the Asian Cup semi-final against China again demonstrated the other-worldly quality that sets the Matildas striker apart from mere mortals.
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- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
‘Helping Iranian sporting women escape the very country you’re helping to bomb is a good look’
Craig Foster says the Australian government did the right thing by the Iranian footballers, but in human rights, he says, there is no such thing as a victory lap.
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- Opinion
- Waratahs
Attn Waratahs: Rugby is a team game. So all 14 of you, just give the ball to Jorgo...
Desperate measures are needed after NSW’s thrashing by the Hurricanes last weekend. I humbly offer my coaching talents to assist Dan McKellar and Co.
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- Opinion
- NRL 2026
Why wouldn’t Zac Lomax want to play a truly world game?
The best of times continued on Monday when Rugby Australia signed Zac Lomax, prompting hilarious carry-on by the denizens of league. They were most incensed by just three words Lomax threw out.
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- Opinion
- Five Minutes with Fitz
I gave Kyle and Jackie O their big break. They were superb, but I know why they imploded
Craig Bruce discovered the now-warring duo in 2004 and put them on the air. The rest is history.
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- Opinion
- AFL 2026
Vale, Dennis, the fans will never forget your Cometti-isms
I have been inundated by readers sending me their favourite moments from the late, great AFL commentator Dennis Cometti. So here they are.
- Peter FitzSimons