France coach Guy Noves has named Fijian-born wingers Noa Nakaitaci and Virimi Vakatawa as Les Bleus brace for a defensive challenge against Australia at the Stade de France on Saturday. …
Continue reading Fijian wingers to play for France vs AustState-based leagues in NSW and Queensland will replace the under 20s as the premier second-tier competition from 2018 onwards, the NRL has confirmed. Nine years after the inaugural underage league …
Continue reading NRL restructures second-tier competitionsDespite the carnage, defiant Essendon chairman Lindsay Tanner has hailed their AFL season a character test that they passed with flying colours. The Bombers continue to reel from the aftershocks …
Continue reading Tanner lauds Bombers’ spirit in AFLWhile he passed through a ready-to-run sale without meeting his reserve, two-year-old Salvador is showing enough promise for Wendy Roche to be considering a tilt at a race worth more …
Continue reading Inglis Nursery a target for promising 2yo colt SalvadorVeteran Queensland sprinter Steel Zip will trial this week as he prepares for what will probably be his last campaign. The nine-year-old has many fans in Queensland because of his …
Continue reading Steel Zip prepares for Magic Millions QTISA field of 12 will contest Perth’s biggest sprint race, the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot. Saturday’s Group One race over 1200m has attracted five eastern states visitors who will tackle …
Continue reading Terravista heads G1 Winterbottom Stakes FieldVictorian race caller Greg Miles has announced his retirement after more than three decades and a record 36 Melbourne Cups. Miles told RSN927 he thought the time was right and …
Continue reading Victorian race caller Greg Miles to retirePowerhouse team Volkswagen will aim to bow out of World Rally with their third consecutive drivers’ championship one-two result at this weekend’s season-ending event in Australia. With top driver Sebastien …
Continue reading Volkswagen aim for rally championship 1-2North Queensland have ruled out any off-season panic buying despite veteran prop Ben Hannant’s retirement further draining their NRL forward depth. Two-time premiership winner Hannant, 31, confirmed on Thursday that …
Continue reading Cowboys depth tested without HannantThe shock defection of NRL prodigy Kalyn Ponga may yet have a silver lining, North Queensland coach Paul Green says. Green hopes money freed up by the teenager’s lucrative 2018 …
Continue reading Kalyn Ponga loss may help Cowboys: GreenVeteran skipper Cameron Smith is leaving the door open to playing on for Australia beyond next year’s Rugby League World Cup and possibly becoming the country’s most-capped player. Preparing for …
Continue reading Smith not ready to pull the pinFrenchman Gael Monfils has withdrawn from the ATP World Tour Finals with a rib injury, leaving Novak Djokovic to play alternate David Goffin in his final group match. World No.6 …
Continue reading Goffin replaces Monfils at ATP FinalsNorth Queensland coach Paul Green is disappointed by Kalyn Ponga’s defection to Newcastle but won’t consider an early release to the Knights for the NRL prodigy. Green is resigned to …
Continue reading No early release for Kalyn Ponga: CowboysCanberra have re-signed the last remaining player to figure in their 2016 NRL fairytale run, locking down back-up hooker Kurt Baptiste until the end of the 2018 season. The 25-year-old …
Continue reading Raiders re-sign Baptiste in NRL until 2018Evergreen Australia skipper Cameron Smith claims he feels fitter than ever and has no plans to call time on his glittering representative career just yet. The 33-year-old will make his …
Continue reading Evergreen Smith not ready to pull the pinFormer Hawthorn star Sam Mitchell won’t say whether Jobe Watson deserved to lose his Brownlow Medal. But he and Richmond captain Trent Cotchin never considered knocking back the joint award …
Continue reading Mitchell at peace with Brownlow Medal winFormer teenage tennis prodigy Ashleigh Barty has made another successful return to the court. After four months out battling an arm injury, the 20-year-old Australian has charged into the quarter-finals …
Continue reading Ash Barty in successful return to tennisAndy Murray admitted a final clash with Novak Djokovic for the No.1 ranking would be the perfect finish to the season, and a dramatic victory over Kei Nishikori kept him …
Continue reading Murray wants Djokovic ATP London showdown

