Big-name Essendon recruit Brendon Goddard has capped a strong debut season at the AFL club by winning their best and fairest award. The 28-year-old was a massive signing for the …
Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt has suffered a heavy defeat at the second round of the ATP/WTA China Open in Beijing to Italian Fabio Fognini on Wednesday. Hewitt lost the pair’s first …
Bismarck du Plessis, red carded when South Africa lost in New Zealand last month, has been recalled for the Rugby Championship decider between the teams on Saturday. Hooker Du Plessis …
England rugby league coach Steve McNamara may have unleashed the anger of perhaps the most dangerous of the Burgess clan – mother Julie. Julie Burgess, who accompanied her four sons …
Essendon chairman Paul Little has declared the worst of the AFL club’s unprecedented supplements scandal is over, while giving a scathing assessment of what went wrong. Little also said at …
Geoff Toovey believes his Manly side’s path to the NRL grand final was helped by other teams under-estimating how strong the Sea Eagles would be in 2013. Toovey’s side will …
Hawthorn dual AFL premiership defender Brent Guerra has retired. Guerra, 31, played 255 AFL games with Port Adelaide, St Kilda and Hawthorn. His career, which began with the Power in …
Former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga crashed out of the Japan Open in the second round on Wednesday, ambushed 6-4 7-6 by Croatia’s Ivan Dodig in the tournament’s first major upset. Top …
Recently-crowned US Open champion Serena Williams is heading to Queensland this summer to defend the Brisbane International. Tournament organisers on Wednesday confirmed world No.1 Williams and veteran Lleyton Hewitt had …
As the first player to be on the books of both Sydney and Greater Western Sydney, ruckman Shane Mumford will add spice to the city’s AFL derby but coach Leon …
St Kilda have signed a 203cm former US college basketballer whose brother plays in the NFL and whose athletic capacity they predict will excite AFL fans. Jason Holmes, a 23-year-old …
Last Friday David Williams scored one of the best tries of the season against South Sydney to help Manly into the NRL grand final, but Sunday’s clash with the Sydney …
St Kilda say rumours there will be a mass exodus of senior players during the AFL’s upcoming trade and free agency periods are completely unfounded. While veteran midfielder Nick Dal …
Shocked to be named in Australia’s Twenty20 squad at the age of 21, the country’s latest hard-hitting sensation Nic Maddinson wants to make the most of his maiden national call-up. …
Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro on Wednesday paid tribute to fellow Argentine David Nalbandian after the one-time top-three player announced his retirement from tennis due to injury. …
Sydney-bound AFL superstar Lance Franklin says he decided only after Saturday’s grand final to join the Swans and has known of their interest for only a fortnight. Franklin, 26, admits …
Greater Western Sydney say Sydney premiership ruckman Shane Mumford has accepted an offer to join the Swans’ cross-city AFL rivals. The Giants posted a statement on their website saying Mumford …
Manly have been warned to brace themselves for a fired-up Sonny Bill Williams in the grand final, after the Sydney Roosters star was surprisingly snubbed at the Dally M awards. …


