Karmichael Hunt, Darren Lockyer and friends are not alone.

Sporting stars and organisations worldwide make silly decisions each day.

Here are some of my favourites from recent times – and some that weren’t silly at all just to balance it out.

Silly

If you are starting off your season, and you are a sport in a stack of trouble, there’s three times in Australia you should avoid – the start of the football season, the end of the football season and Christmas-New Year.

So when did the National Basketball League kick off what could be its final season – September.

That’s a month when who you can guarantee sports lovers will be thinking of football finals and nothing else.

Unless you’re a basketball fanatic, I’m betting you couldn’t give a damn what’s happening with the Gold Coast Blaze or Melbourne Tigers.

Not having a Brisbane team just makes it harder to get excited about a basketball season which won’t make it onto television for almost two months.

Basketball is quickly becoming a sport like hockey. It has a national league, but most people only take an interest in the game when it’s Olympics time.

Not so silly

Playing the Sunshine Coast Gympie Rugby League grand final a fortnight before the NRL grand final should become an annual occurrence.

If the NRL stands by its policy of Friday night-Saturday night finals in weeks two and three, like this season, it opens up Sundays as a great opportunity to get people to local footy.

Yesterday’s turnout showed that.

But a weekend lost to rain was the reason why the Caboolture-Noosa GF was played yesterday and not seven days earlier.

Lock it in for next year Billy.

Silly

What was Broncos CEO Bruno Cullen doing when he decided to compare the media coverage of his players’ alleged misdemeanours with that of the Queensland netball captain who had a low-range drink-driving offence?

When the netballers get paid as much as footballers, and start to develop a history of mucking up, then things will be equal.

Not so silly
Cricket Australia’s decision not to send a team to Pakistan for the now delayed

Champions Trophy was, in an unfortunate way, vindicated yesterday.

A bomb attack yesterday at the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad killed at least 60 people.

It shows again that no-one should be asked to travel to Pakistan, especially if it’s only for a few games of relatively meaningless one-day cricket.

Silly

The Paralympics are full of outstanding sporting achievements and heart-warming stories.

What a shame then that the public’s interest in the event is diluted because it comes almost straight after a full two weeks of Olympic Games action.

The Paras deserve more attention than they receive.

Why not put them on a month before the Olympics, or even a year before or a year after?

Not so silly
If I was an NRL chief executive, I’d be lining my club up to play an NRL pre-season trial on the Sunshine Coast.

Last year, the game here featured Manly against Melbourne who eventually became grand final combatants.

This year, it was Manly against the Warriors at Stockland Park and those two will be facing off in a preliminary final this weekend.

Not everything is bad about the ground at Kawana.

Silly

Someone keeps booking in home games for the Queensland Roar at Suncorp Stadium.

After losing to the Newcastle Jets on Friday night, the Roar’s A-League record at home is 10 wins from 36 attempts.

That’s just plain dismal.