New Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney wants his troops to take a hard-nosed attitude into Saturday night’s AFL pre-season clash with a largely second-string Collingwood and a youth-stacked Greater Western …
Manchester City claimed on Friday that Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure were racially abused during the Europa League clash against Porto, media reports said. City came from a goal down …
Andre Villas-Boas has admitted that he does not enjoy the full support of his Chelsea squad ahead of the FA Cup fifth-round meeting with Birmingham City on Saturday. The manager …
The inquest into Arsenal’s Champions League humiliation in Milan was uncomfortable for Arsene Wenger and there will be more of the same if they exit the FA Cup at the …
The last two seeded players were knocked out of the Copa BBVA Colsanitas claycourt tennis tournament in Colombia on Thursday in second-round matches. Top-seeded Marina Erakovic of New Zealand was …
St George Illawarra five-eighth Jamie Soward believes the return of veteran duo Ben Hornby and Dean Young will have the Dragons primed to finish their NRL pre-season on a positive …
Premier League heavyweights Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool will look to draw a line under a week to forget by booking their places in the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend. Arsenal …
Juventus has come out in support of coach Antonio Conte following his comments against refereeing decisions after the 0-0 draw at Parma in the Serie A. Conte was left fuming …
Western Force coach Richard Graham insists it’s not time to panic just yet despite watching his team crash to successive thumpings in their Super Rugby trial matches. The Force, beaten …
Jack Bobridge and the rest of Australia’s men’s pursuit team have made themselves right at home at the London Olympic velodrome. The foursome of Bobridge, Rohan Dennis, Alex Edmondson and …
Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro joined resting top seed Roger Federer on Thursday in the Rotterdam Open tennis quarter-finals. Second seed Berdych advanced with only minimal effort as …
Nicolas Almagro of Spain extended the defence of his Brazil Open tennis title to the quarter-finals by defeating Victor Hanescu of Romania 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 on Thursday. Almagro, the …
Essendon are confident this year they will not suffer the slump which hit them hard last season. The Bombers were surprise NAB Cup grand finalists – beaten by Collingwood – …
The cost of the AFL’s new teams Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney has led to the league making an operating loss for the first time in a decade. Figures …
Crouch, touch, pause, engage. Super Rugby’s longest competition is set to kick off but get ready to pause again. For the first time in the 17-season history of SANZAR’s provincial …
Optimists may suggest Parramatta’s 14th-place finish in 2011 was a case of missed opportunities instead of yet another annus horribilis. It was a season punctuated by three golden point defeats …
Canberra look set to field a near full-strength line-up in their final NRL trial against anterCbury on Saturday, with Jarrod Croker and David Shillington both recovered from niggling injuries. The …
Australian Matthew Ebden has been eliminated from ATP San Jose Open after a straight-sets loss to South African sixth seed Kevin Anderson. Anderson dispatched Ebden 6-1 6-2 on Thursday to …
