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Ricky Ponting’s glittering one-day career is on borrowed time at best after suffering his worst slump in the 50-over game. Australia’s leading ODI run-scorer may have played his last match …

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley saw plenty of encouraging signs after giving the club’s raw players experience in the AFL pre-season competition in Sydney on Saturday. But a serious knee injury …

New Zealand left-hander Gareth Paddison survived a back nine meltdown to win the Victorian PGA Championship by a stroke after nearest challenger James McLean suffered a final hole shocker. The …

South Africa captain AB de Villiers won the toss and sent New Zealand in to bat in the second Twenty20 international at Seddon Park on Sunday. South Africa, who trail …

Victorian veteran Sam Soliman displayed the savvy accumulated through a 15-year professional boxing to outpoint Garth Wood on Sunday. Soliman won the interim IBF Pan Pacific middleweight title with a …

Western Bulldogs’ preparation for the 2012 AFL season will kick up a notch in their next pre-season match, with stars Adam Cooney, Brian Lake and Shaun Higgins slated to return. …

Trainer Greg Eurell has flagged the Caulfield Cup as a spring target for Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker who will make her autumn return in the Futurity Stakes at Caulfield. …

Forgotten sprinter Smart Missile won’t be seen in action until the Brisbane winter carnival. Cummings says time will beat Smart Missile making a belated autumn carnival appearance but he is …

Australian soccer’s chief has slammed Gold Coast United chairman Clive Palmer for making “offensive” comments about the A-League. Palmer, Queensland’s richest man, labelled his own club as insignificant and the …

Cairns Taipans are confounding basketball tipsters as they battle to stay on the NBL finals tightrope. Last season’s losing grand finalists (13-10) are locked in a three-team battle with Queensland …

Northcliffe’s Elizabeth Pluimers captured her second Ironwoman Series crown on Sunday when she won the sixth and final round at Noosa Heads. Kristyl Smith, who held a slender one-point series …

Queensland’s Sheffield Shield ladder lead is in serious jeopardy after they were reduced to a second innings 8-120 on day three of the match against Tasmania at Bellerive. The Bulls …

NSW reached the lunchbreak unscathed but still need a minor miracle to save their Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia at the WACA Ground. The Blues were 0-24 at lunch …

Expect Carlton captain Chris Judd to play during the AFL pre-season, with no concerns whatsoever about his fitness. That is the word from Blues team-mate Kade Simpson, who believes the …

Stakes races in Sydney and Melbourne beckon for speedy filly Satin Shoes, among them Saturday’s Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield. The Clarry Conners-trained three-year-old showed her readiness with an …

Western Australia have declared their first innings with a lead of 469, shortly after Liam Davis brought up a superb triple century on day three of the Sheffield Shield clash …

The same racial stereotypes that dogged Yao Ming early in his NBA career are now being cast upon Harvard educated, New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. American sports network ESPN …

James Tedesco is the fullback of the future at Wests Tigers, but even skipper Robbie Farah doesn’t know if that NRL future is a matter of weeks, months or years …