Samantha Stosur will play Taiwan’s Kai Chen Chang in the first round of the Australian Open starting on Monday. Australia’s only seed at the season-opening grand slam, the world No.9 …
Former Australian one-day representative Luke Ronchi is staying low-key about a significant day that’s fast approaching. The former West Australian wicket-keeper moved back to New Zealand last year, the country …
In-form batsman Shaun Marsh is ripe to be picked again for Australia, his Twenty20 teammates and opposition say. Perth Scorchers skipper Simon Katich and Adelaide Strikers coach Darren Berry gushed …
Qatar’s Nasser al-Attiyah slashed 10-time champion Stephane Peterhansel’s lead by over eight minutes as tragedy struck the Dakar Rally with the death of two people on Thursday . Al-Attiyah, the …
New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum, who wants his bowlers to “fight fire with fire”, says seamer Neil Wagner’s aggression is a key reason for his selection for the second and …
Former paratrooper Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand fired a seven-under-par 65 on Thursday to take a three-shot first-round lead in the Volvo Golf Champions. South Africans Ernie Els and Louis Oosthuizen …
A five-team Pakistan Twenty20 competition is set to get underway at the end of March with around 30 foreign cricketers expected to play. The event is being planned by the …
Two people were killed and seven others were injured in a head-on collision between a Dakar Rally support vehicle and a taxi near Peru’s border with Chile, race organisers said …
When Swansea announced the signing of Miguel Perez Cuesta from Spanish struggler Rayo Vallecano in July last year, it barely caused a ripple in English football. At STG2 million ($A3.07 …
Some love Frank Lampard. Some hate him. Some think he is overrated, overweight and over the hill. Others believe he is a national treasure, a footballer who comes around once …
David Ferrer will have to do something he’s never done before if he wants to win a fourth tennis title in Auckland – beat Gael Monfils. The world number five …
The late Alfred St George Hamersley, one of rugby union’s first internationals and also a pioneer of the sport in New Zealand and Canada, has been inducted into the IRB …
Italy rugby coach Jacques Brunel called on the Azzurri to build on their promising November campaign as he named his 30-man squad for the Six Nations on Thursday. Italy kick …
Pakistan will host a multinational Twenty20 competition in March in the hope of reviving international cricket in the troubled country. There has been no top-class international cricket in Pakistan since …
Liverpool may not be the force they once were but Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes insists they remain the league leaders’ biggest rivals. The teams meet at Old Trafford on …
West Brom have rejected a bid from QPR – believed to be about STG5 million ($A7.67 million) – for defender Jonas Olsson, Press Association Sport understands. Olsson only signed a …
Highly-rated teenager Luke Shaw has pledged his long-term future to Southampton and will sign a five-year deal at the club on his 18th birthday, Press Association Sport understands. The 17-year-old …
British tennis player Ross Hutchins has been diagnosed with cancer and says he hopes to return to the circuit before the end of the year after six months of chemotherapy. …
