His most treasured possessions are a collection of dubious sports coats and a valet, who just happens to be named Jeeves.
Half-Greek, gay and dubious about sport, Tsiolkas has the perspective of a triple outsider and, in both the Olympics opening ceremony scene and at a tense meal that takes place on Australia Day, characters challenge, with blistering invective, the image of the nation promoted by its politicians and marketers.
Under Mr. Rezes, VSZ squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on dubious investments: sports teams, real estate, banks, a travel agency, a bankrupt steel company in Hungary, a never-finished iron-ore processing factory in Ukraine and even a small airline.
Sky On Demand When he's not sporting dubious mutton-chops as Mad Men's Harry Crane, Rich Sommer can be found tossing dice and stacking Jenga blocks as host of this board games podcast.
The fairytale villain received his comeuppance yesterday teatime as the Ashley and Cheryl Cole marriage – a multi-million-pound conflation of sport, ambition, dubious miming and good looks – reached its dénouement.
Is he/isn't he attractive?), attended a Hollywood premiere last year wearing a three-lions T-shirt under a trucker shirt, and Wyclef Jean has been known to sport the dubious team-strip style on his trips to the UK.
For a skeptic like me, who lumps racing with boxing and professional wrestling among sports with dubious results, the Belmont was horse racing's finest hour.
Before we wonder whether what we are doing when we play sport, is ethically dubious, a creative success or a failure – let's just wonder what it is to play and watch sport.
The best bit will remain that small, still square of green around Messi as he tickles out his intricate patterns, a reminder that even in the middle of the familiar, parping brouhaha of commerce, dubious practice and branding schmaltz, sport can still produce these moments of purity, its own enduring magic and sparkle.
* My thanks to Michael O'Hare of Middlesex for his contribution to this column's (only very mildly xenophobic) series of historically dubious US reports on European sporting matters.
