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Brisbane Lions coach Justin Leppitsch says his injury-hit side is running out of talls with forward Daniel McStay set to miss Sunday’s clash with St Kilda. McStay suffered a compound …

John Barker’s first major task as interim Carlton coach will be extracting maximum effort from the battered Blues, a quality which has been notably lacking in their sorry start to …

NSW skipper Paul Gallen and winger Brett Morris are both on track to be return for the must-win second State of Origin match in Melbourne. Morris is ahead of schedule …

Highlanders co-captain Nasi Manu is hampered by shoulder pain for a second week and will miss their important Super Rugby match against the Chiefs in Invercargill. Fullback Ben Smith will …

Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has admitted the club’s salary cap woes forced him to omit in-form halfback Luke Kelly for Friday night’s NRL clash with Penrith. Chris Sandow was reinstated …

Fawad Ahmed did his chances of a Test debut no harm but Australia have been made to toil on the opening day of their tour match in Antigua. At stumps …

New Zealand will draw confidence from one of their best fighting victories of recent years when they seek to level the Test series against England at Leeds. The Black Caps …

She’s been to hell and back and now Mirjana Lucic-Baroni is in tennis heaven after dumping third seed Simona Halep from the French Open in the tournament’s biggest upset yet. …

Fawad Ahmed has done his chances of a Test debut for Australia next week no harm with an encouraging start to the three-day tour match in Antigua. The Pakistan-born leg-spinner …

Unlike the selfie-seeking court invader of Sunday, Roger Federer welcomed an AC/DC legend watching him march into the French Open third round at Roland Garros. Angus Young, the guitarist of …

South Sydney’s latest exciting backline discovery Aaron Gray is in no hurry to hand his left wing spot back to the Rabbitohs newly minted Kangaroos representative Alex Johnston. Gray, 21, …

The champagne is on ice for Queensland along with NSW stand-in skipper Robbie Farah’s shoulder after a veteran Maroons’ stirring 11-10 State of Origin game one victory in Sydney. The …

Cooper Cronk lives just up the road from the MCG and would love nothing more than to close out the State of Origin series there in three weeks. Cronk, who …

Maybe Jarryd Hayne’s boots can be filled. Josh Dugan gave NSW fans plenty of reasons to think so with a brilliant performance in the Blues’ No.1 jersey he inherited from …

Melbourne Rebels coach Tony McGahan has urged his Super Rugby side to outwit the Sharks by playing smarter rugby. The Rebels take on the Sharks in Durban early on Saturday …

Fleet Street is aflutter ahead of Nick Kyrgios’s French Open clash with young Brit Kyle Edmund after the Australian’s cocky confession that he enjoys sex before big matches. If Thursday’s …

Mark Thompson has ruled himself out as a candidate to coach Carlton next season and questioned the state of the embattled AFL club. Thompson said he is done with senior …

Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell are “very close to getting a recall” for Australia’s rugby World Cup campaign, according to former Wallabies skipper George Smith. Smith, Australia’s second most-capped forward …