Hey Paul, sports coverage everywhere is like that.

Sports broadcasts are a product that is meant to draw in advertising revenue. So even here sports in Oz are tainted with a liberal dose of bias. It's not 'in-yo-face' and piled on thick like some US stuff that I've seen, but more subtly inserted between the 'neutral' commentary. Thinking about it, our guys are pretty slick in how they do it. The crafty buggers!