Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is urging his team to play with more freedom as he prepares to unleash up to two more debutants. The Wallabies ended their six-match losing run …
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Johnathan Thurston is in the running to be named rugby league’s players’ player for an unprecedented fifth time. Thurston is among the leading contenders for the Rugby League Players’ Association …
Continue reading Thurston aiming for record fifth NRL awardThe All Blacks aren’t invincible but Australia will have to be a whole lot more clinical to beat them, says Wallabies winger Dane Haylett-Petty. The race for this year’s Rugby …
Continue reading Wallabies play down NZ fear factorRichmond have secured a major off-field coup by enticing highly-respected administrator Neil Balme to return to the AFL club as the general manager of football. A rebel group seeking a …
Continue reading Balme joins Tigers from CollingwoodJosh Hodgson’s wretched week is set to ease with the odds strong of him being named rugby league’s Players’ Champion. Hodgson is likely to sit out Canberra’s sudden death semi-final …
Continue reading Hodgson NRL Players’ Champion favouriteThe AFL’s decision to grant Greater Western Sydney a home final at Spotless Stadium has raised eyebrows, with Geelong and the Western Bulldogs saying they deserve the same right. GWS …
Continue reading Cats, Bulldogs want home AFL finals venuesWith friends like Brisbane, North Queensland sure don’t need enemies. The Broncos insist respect – not revenge – will be the motivating factor in Friday night’s NRL grand final re-match …
Continue reading All pressure on Cowboys: BoydTry keep your arms up and you’ll be sweet. That’s how Canberra behemoth Shannon Boyd sees it as confusion reigns about the NRL’s definition of a shoulder charge. Eyebrows were …
Continue reading Shoulder charge rule ‘all over the shop’Western Bulldogs veteran Matthew Boyd insists he won’t address his playing future until after the AFL finals. There are reports the 34-year-old last month verbally agreed to a one-year extension, …
Continue reading Bulldogs veteran Boyd’s AFL future unclearCronulla coach Shane Flanagan has backing to continue making the shock substitution calls as the Sharks continue their quest for a maiden NRL premiership. Flanagan shocked many when, for the …
Continue reading NRL’s Sharks back coach on clutch callsPeter Wallace now considers himself a No.9 for life. And it’s not because he doesn’t believe the seven on his back doesn’t suit him, it’s just that with the success …
Continue reading Wallace wouldn’t swap hooker for halvesWest Coast utility Patrick McGinnity and former Blue Kane Lucas have retired from AFL ranks after failing to earn new deals with the Eagles. Ex-Demon Jamie Bennell was also among …
Continue reading Eagles delist McGinnity, BennellFollowing Stan Wawrinka’s win at the US Open, it may finally be time to officially expand the ‘Big Four’ in men’s tennis to the ‘Big Five’. Since 2005, when Rafa …
Continue reading Wawrinka plays down ‘Big Five’ inclusionThird seed Stan Wawrinka rose to the occasion once again to beat top-seeded defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 7-5 6-3 and win the US Open men’s singles crown …
Continue reading Wawrinka edges closer to career grand slamThe Western Bulldogs are confident the manic pressure that suffocated West Coast can be replicated against Hawthorn on the wider expanses of the MCG. The Bulldogs will go into Friday’s …
Continue reading Dogs look to suffocate Hawks in AFLAdelaide defender Daniel Talia says he’ll need a little help from his friends to quell Sydney ace Lance Franklin in Saturday night’s AFL semi-final. Talia, who describes Franklin as a …
Continue reading I need help to stop Franklin: Crow TaliaAfter considering skipping the US Open because of injury concerns, Novak Djokovic made it all the way to the final for the sixth time in the past seven years. He …
Continue reading Nerves betrayed me in US Open: DjokovicWestern Bulldogs veteran Matthew Boyd says he won’t address his playing future until after the AFL finals. Boyd, 34, is out of contract at the end of the year but …
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