Around about the time you are likely reading this, a skilled surgeon is delicately cutting out and removing the brain of former NSW Waratahs coach Barry ''Tizza'' Taylor. By the time of his funeral on Friday afternoon at Manly, that brain will be in ice and on its way to Boston University. Now those who knew Tizza and who were as fond of him as I was may be forgiven for registering some surprise that - ahem - his, of all Australian brains, is the first to be preserved for medical science in this manner. But therein lies a story …
