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State-based leagues in NSW and Queensland will replace the under 20s as the premier second-tier competition from 2018 onwards, the NRL has confirmed. Nine years after the inaugural underage league …

While he passed through a ready-to-run sale without meeting his reserve, two-year-old Salvador is showing enough promise for Wendy Roche to be considering a tilt at a race worth more …

Veteran Queensland sprinter Steel Zip will trial this week as he prepares for what will probably be his last campaign. The nine-year-old has many fans in Queensland because of his …

A field of 12 will contest Perth’s biggest sprint race, the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot. Saturday’s Group One race over 1200m has attracted five eastern states visitors who will tackle …

Victorian race caller Greg Miles has announced his retirement after more than three decades and a record 36 Melbourne Cups. Miles told RSN927 he thought the time was right and …

Powerhouse team Volkswagen will aim to bow out of World Rally with their third consecutive drivers’ championship one-two result at this weekend’s season-ending event in Australia. With top driver Sebastien …

North Queensland have ruled out any off-season panic buying despite veteran prop Ben Hannant’s retirement further draining their NRL forward depth. Two-time premiership winner Hannant, 31, confirmed on Thursday that …

Veteran skipper Cameron Smith is leaving the door open to playing on for Australia beyond next year’s Rugby League World Cup and possibly becoming the country’s most-capped player. Preparing for …

The shock defection of NRL prodigy Kalyn Ponga may yet have a silver lining, North Queensland coach Paul Green says. Green hopes money freed up by the teenager’s lucrative 2018 …

North Queensland coach Paul Green is disappointed by Kalyn Ponga’s defection to Newcastle but won’t consider an early release to the Knights for the NRL prodigy. Green is resigned to …

Frenchman Gael Monfils has withdrawn from the ATP World Tour Finals with a rib injury, leaving Novak Djokovic to play alternate David Goffin in his final group match. World No.6 …

Canberra have re-signed the last remaining player to figure in their 2016 NRL fairytale run, locking down back-up hooker Kurt Baptiste until the end of the 2018 season. The 25-year-old …

Evergreen Australia skipper Cameron Smith claims he feels fitter than ever and has no plans to call time on his glittering representative career just yet. The 33-year-old will make his …

Former Hawthorn star Sam Mitchell won’t say whether Jobe Watson deserved to lose his Brownlow Medal. But he and Richmond captain Trent Cotchin never considered knocking back the joint award …

Former teenage tennis prodigy Ashleigh Barty has made another successful return to the court. After four months out battling an arm injury, the 20-year-old Australian has charged into the quarter-finals …

Andy Murray admitted a final clash with Novak Djokovic for the No.1 ranking would be the perfect finish to the season, and a dramatic victory over Kei Nishikori kept him …

Swiss driver Simona De Silvestro will stay with Nissan for her full-season debut in next year’s Supercars Championship. The former IndyCar driver, who will become first full-time female Supercars driver …

Liberty Media is looking to expand the number of Formula One races, hoping to cash in on the glamorous appeal of its newly acquired asset, chief executive Greg Maffei said. …