Can you see it? Looming on the horizon is Christmas and everything that comes with it. Trash and treasure with the family. Beach cricket with the cousins. Melting ice cream dripping down my toddler’s hand. Leftover ham sandwiches and cricket on the radio. Beyond that, New Year’s Eve. It’s a reflective time of year and it’s given us cause to think about what has transpired in sport.
Tassie got a stadium, Perth got the North Sydney Bears, the Wallabies surged into relevance before returning to mediocrity.
Oscar Piastri missed a world title after convincing us he was the man to beat. Gout Gout arrived on the world stage and Ariarne Titmus retired from it.
One time Rabbitoh Jordan Mailata starred in the Super Bowl, beating the Patrick Mahomes led, Travis Kelce inspired, Taylor Swift supported Kansas City Chiefs.
Cameron Munster delivered the most extraordinary Origin story in the history of Origin, as he honoured his late father with a famous Queensland victory.
With dreamy eyes, painted nails and a weird subplot involving toilet water, Reece Walsh took hold of the NRL and delivered Brisbane a title.
It was the year of the back-to-back in the AFL as Brisbane did the double in the men’s and the Kangas matched the feat in the women’s.
Izak Rankine put homophobia on the AFL’s agenda and Mitch Brown made history.
National hero Sam Kerr was cleared of wrongdoing despite having too much to drink and getting entangled with a London cabbie and the English police.
Angeball rose, mate, and fell, mate.
After nearly two years of sh*t talk we finally got a look at Bazball on Australian shores and the English struggled to walk the walk.
We’ve loved talking about it all, what was your biggest story of 2025? We’re unpacking it next week on ABC Sport Daily.
I’ll see you all in 2026.
