Melbourne relish the challenge presented by a brutal schedule to start their NRL title defence, says skipper Cameron Smith. Just back from the successful World Club Challenge campaign in England …
Australia’s Bernard Tomic was forced to retire in the first set of his opening-round match at the ATP World Tour event in Dubai. Tomic, a quarter-finalist in Marseille last week, …
Australian captain Cameron Smith has praised the Canterbury club for its handling of NRL superstar Ben Barba’s personal crisis. Smith returned home on Wednesday after leading Melbourne to their World …
Left-hander Darren Bravo struck a composed, unbeaten 72 Tuesday as the West Indies cruised to a 3-0 clean sweep over Zimbabwe in their one-day cricket series with a five-wicket victory …
Hurricanes captain Conrad Smith has shaken off a head knock and will lead the side against the Reds. Smith left the field eight minutes from the end of Saturday’s 41-27 …
London Welsh’s position in England’s top-flight Premiership rugby competition is at risk after the club revealed it has been charged with fielding an ineligible New Zealand player in games this …
The England and Wales Cricket Board has pledged to take all “reasonable steps” to stop players using recreational drugs following an inquest into the death of one the game’s rising …
World number one Novak Djokovic did not let friendship prevent him from carrying on where he left off last month when he made a successful defence of his Australian Open …
Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez has dismissed media reports of a row between himself and some of his senior players in the aftermath of Sunday’s 2-0 Premier League loss at …
Former Formula 1 test driver Maria de Villota, who lost her right eye in a crash last July, says her recuperation has gone as well as she could have expected. …
Australia captain and co-selector Michael Clarke says it’s too early to make a call on playing two spinners in Saturday’s second Test against India in Hyderabad. India captain MS Dhoni …
Bernard Tomic retired with a “general illness” after only five games against Romania’s Victor Hanescu at the Dubai Open, as Russian Nikolay Davydenko brought comedy and an upset to the …
Sixth-seed Donna Vekic of Croatia was the first seeded player to be knocked out of the Malaysian Open after she lost 6-3 4-6 6-2 to American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the …
One of English cricket’s rising stars died after being electrocuted on a railway line then struck by a train as he attempted to flee police while on drink and drugs, …
Canterbury chief executive Todd Greenberg says news of Ben Barba’s off-field problems will not affect the NRL club’s relationship with sponsors. The Bulldogs stood Barba down indefinitely after he admitted …
Up-and-coming winger Daniel Tupou has signed a contract extension with Sydney Roosters until the end of the 2015 NRL season. Considered among the game’s most exciting prospects, 21-year-old Tupou scored …
After a horror run with injuries, Aidan Toua hopes to revive the razzle dazzle of his schoolboy years spent playing alongside Quade Cooper in Queensland’s Super Rugby clash with the …
Carlton star Chris Judd says there is no end in sight to his AFL career despite relinquishing the captaincy. Judd, who turns 30 in September, enters his 12th AFL season …
