A blockbuster match against West Coast looms large, but Sydney coach John Longmire insists his AFL players won’t be caught in the trap of looking beyond Saturday’s game against St …
Continue reading Sydney Swans focused on Saints, not EaglesFremantle will almost certainly attempt to keep Nat Fyfe’s Brownlow Medal hopes alive by pleading guilty to a downgraded charge. The Dockers captain will head to the tribunal on Tuesday …
Continue reading D-Day for Dockers and Fyfe at AFL tribunalIt is a fate that Billy Slater reckons he has not even contemplated. But there is a very real chance that the veteran fullback may never wear the Queensland jersey …
Continue reading Injured Slater may have played last OriginNSW rugby league advisor Greg Alexander expects to see Michael Morgan fill the boots of the man he claims is the “best fullback to ever play the game”. Queensland’s State …
Continue reading Blues tear up plans after Slater pulls pinWill Genia knows X-factor when he sees it and, to him, it’s written all over Wallabies rookie Jack Maddocks. Maddocks is a bolter from the blue for Australia’s first Test …
Continue reading Maddocks has the smarts to go with speedEvonne Goolagong Cawley always feared Serena Williams returned too soon. But Australia’s tennis super-mum is still backing the American to add to her record grand slam tally, despite her French …
Continue reading Goolagong: ‘Serena came back too soon’Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber have set up a sequel to their pulsating Australian Open semi-final on a day of high drama at Roland Garros. Serena Williams’ bombshell withdrawal with …
Continue reading Halep and Kerber in French Open showdownA shattered Serena Williams is in a desperate fight to be fit for Wimbledon after pulling out of the French Open with a pectoral muscle injury. The 23-times grand slam …
Continue reading Gutted Serena in Wimbledon fitness battleSerena Williams withdrew from the French Open on Monday, shortly before she was due on court to face Maria Sharapova in a much-anticipated fourth-round showdown. The 36-year-old 23-times grand slam …
Continue reading Serena Williams withdraws from French OpenAnother day, another milestone for Rafael Nadal with the king of clay surging into a record-equalling 12th French Open quarter-final in Paris. Nadal resisted a spirited challenge from German surprise …
Continue reading Nadal into 12th French Open quarter-finalAn irritated Diego Schwartzman has silenced chirpy Kevin Anderson in a niggly French Open fourth-round affair in Paris. Schwartzman accused Anderson of over-the-top celebrations before staging an epic fightback to …
Continue reading Schwartzman silences Anderson in ParisRising Russian Daria Kasatkina has sent Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki crashing out of the French Open in Paris. The pair had returned to Roland Garros on Monday to resume …
Continue reading Halep wins, Wozniacki out in French OpenSimona Halep has underlined her French Open title credentials with a clinical dispatch of tournament dark horse Elise Mertens. The world No.1 and two-time Roland Garros runner-up swept into the …
Continue reading Halep storms into French Open quartersThe first time Will Genia encountered the Irish seven years ago he and the Wallabies underestimated them and were sorely punished for their “disrespect”. This time it’s ill-discipline rather than …
Continue reading Wallabies must clean up their act, GeniaSydney coach John Longmire believes ruckman Callum Sinclair has learned his lesson when it comes to staging. Sinclair dominated Carlton in last Friday night’s AFL clash at the SCG, producing …
Continue reading Swans have ‘got the message’ on stagingFremantle captain Nat Fyfe’s hopes of securing a second Brownlow Medal hang by a thread after he was issued with a one-match suspension for his crude forearm to the head …
Continue reading Brownlow fave Fyfe given one-game AFL banAustralia will be without three of their best as the side attempts to hold off fast-finishing New Zealand in the women’s rugby sevens world series finale in Paris later this …
Continue reading Aussie 7s depleted for Paris finaleHOW STATE OF ORIGIN’S ROOKIE TEAMS HAVE PERFORMED * QUEENSLAND, Game I, 2001: After their biggest defeat in Origin history capped off their 3-0 series loss the year before, Wayne …
Continue reading Blues aim to join Origin’s rookie winners

