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Top-seeded defending champion Dominic Thiem of Austria tumbled out of the Rio Open on Friday, falling 6-4 6-0 to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco in the quarter-finals of the clay-court event. Thiem …

What do you give the man who has everything? In the case of Cameron Smith, it’s the Harry Sunderland Medal. Smith was so good in 2017 that he is still …

A fullback curse may have struck again but Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy is still quietly confident veteran No.1 Billy Slater will be fit for their NRL season opener. A week …

Greater Western Sydney will rely on a team effort to try to curb Erin Phillips when the Adelaide star makes her first AFLW appearance in Sydney on Sunday. The Crows …

Western Bulldogs defender Dale Morris could miss the first half of the AFL season after hurting his knee during a training session. The Bulldogs revealed the 35-year-old tore his anterior …

France overpowered Italy 34-17 on Friday to end an eight-game winless streak and claim their first victory in this year’s Six Nations. Les Bleus, who had not won a game …

St Helens continued their perfect start to the Super League season with a 26-12 win at Huddersfield as Jermaine McGillvary was kept quiet on his first appearance since the World …

Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard has reached a settlement with the US Tennis Association in her lawsuit after a fall at the 2015 US Open resulted in her withdrawal and …

Next week’s ATP Dubai Championships will be without drawcard Roger Federer after officials confirmed on Friday the world No.1 would miss the event. Federer had earlier dropped a hint of …

Trainer Tony McEvoy has in recent years been one of the biggest buyers of yearlings at the different sales around Australia. Last year’s batch has already won McEvoy a first …

Gerald Ryan has lost Deploy for the autumn but the trainer still has plenty of ammunition among the stable’s younger brigade headed by Trapeze Artist. Five-year-old Deploy set records in …

Wind the clock back 12 months and the Lindsay Park training establishment was celebrating an autumn Group One double. Catchy won the Blue Diamond Stakes for two-year-olds and 40 minutes …

Aaron Purcell admits he expected better from Derby hopeful Rellson when he returned from a spell but the trainer is looking forward to seeing the gelding step up in distance …

Lovely but enigmatic galloper Lord Of The Sky wins the Group One Futurity and is now off to Kingstar Farm in the Hunter Valley. That’s the headline trainer Robbie Laing …

In-form Bedford will face the biggest challenge of his career to date when he returns to Caulfield for the Mornington Cup Prelude against a field which includes Melbourne Cup winner …

Star New Zealand mare Bonneval has suffered a career-threatening injury to a suspensory ligament. Andrew Forsman, the training partner of Murray Baker, said the New Zealand Horse of the Year …

What Johnathan Thurston wants, Johnathan Thurston usually gets on the football field. But the dominant North Queensland co-captain says he has no problem with halves partner Michael Morgan starting to …

Russia’s Daria Kasatkina stunned second seed Garbine Muguruza to reach the final at the Dubai Championships on Friday while defending champion Elina Svitolina cruised past former world No.1 Angelique Kerber. …