Bad sports: More tales of competitors who've turned to the shady side
6/19/202628 min
As the globe turns its gaze to the World Cup, Andrew Rule takes a local look at more sporting characters who have fallen out of favour.
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First 90 secondsAndrew Rule· Host0:00
[gentle music] He has a blacklist that is on the wall of all its outlets, which has pictures of these guys and descriptions of them and says, "Thou shalt not accept bets from these geezers." He made the elementary mistake of trying to sail a large amount of cocaine back to Australia on a yacht from South America. I'm Andrew Rule. This is Life and Crimes. Now, this week we've had a sad thing happen. The son of a man I know well, that I admired immensely as a boxer and an athlete, the son of Barry Michael, former world champion boxer. His name is Zach Swetenham, which is Barry Michael's correct surname, and Zach Swetenham, as we sit here making this podcast, is under arrest for the stabbing death of someone he knew, I think, outside a Footscray hotel. Now, we won't go into any details about that. It's a tragic event, but it reminds us that some sports and some versions of crime are never that far from each other, and I think it's fair to say that the boxing ring, the martial arts ring, and various forms of horse racing and dog racing have always attracted