Banned Essendon players will take their long-running saga to Switzerland in a last-ditch bid to be cleared of doping charges. At least half the 34 current and former Bombers found …
Continue reading AFL players to appeal doping bansPort Adelaide say the AFL’s ruling that prevents it and three other clubs signing top-up recruits to replace banned former Essendon players lacks sense. Port believe the AFL decision was …
Continue reading AFL top-up ruling lacks sense: Port chiefJohn Millman has forced his way into the quarter-finals of the Open Sud de France to continue his good form from the Australian Open. The world No.78 showed plenty of …
Continue reading Millman through to quarters in MontpellierExciting St Kilda youngster Jack Billings says his injury-enforced layoff has taught him to savour every moment of his promising AFL career. The 20-year-old’s 2015 season was wrecked by a …
Continue reading Saints’ Billings back on the trackQueensland coach Kevin Walters admits the fallout over the disastrous Emerging Maroons camp controversy will have a huge impact on his maiden State of Origin campaign this year. In a …
Continue reading Six more players banned from Qld OriginAustralian coach Andy Friend has stressed throwing Quade Cooper into the sevens’ deep end would have disrespected his regular campaigners and sacrificed Sydney 7s success. In his first tournament in …
Continue reading Coach defiant on unfriendly Quade callSpeedy outside back Kotaro Matsushima will join the Melbourne Rebels for the 2016 Super Rugby season, continuing their tradition of signing Japanese internationals. The 22-year-old, who represented Japan at last …
Continue reading Rebels continue Japanese tiesDavis Cup is coming full circle for new Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt. The freshly retired Hewitt will transition from playing stalwart to captain for the first-round tie against the United …
Continue reading Hewitt to take on familiar foesThe next NRL chief executive is not expected to be unveiled before the end of March. On the same day second-in-command Suzanne Young resigned, a NRL CEOs’ meeting in Auckland …
Continue reading New NRL CEO another month awayQueensland have stood down an additional six players for this year’s State of Origin series. Brisbane trio Anthony Milford, Ben Hunt and Jarrod Wallace, the Roosters’ Dylan Napa, Canberra’s Edrick …
Continue reading Six banned from Qld sideSouth Sydney back-rower John Sutton has rubbished rumours of unrest at Redfern and has promised to present a united front during their NRL Auckland Nines defence. The Rabbitohs were forced …
Continue reading Sutton hits back at Souths NRL rumoursSUZANNE YOUNG’S RESIGNATION AS NRL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER IS ONE OF MANY SINCE DAVID GALLOP’S REPLACEMENT BY DAVID SMITH: * Shane Mattiske (head of strategy) – The man who took …
Continue reading The NRL’s door of departure since 2013View our tips and best bets for today’s Hobart meeting in which the Bow Mistress Trophy and the Tasmanian Derby headline the meeting. Race One: 10 Static React Race …
Continue reading Bow Mistress Trophy 2016 day Horse Racing Tips – Hobart races 6/2/2016They’re not playing for the big silverware and there are no household names among them, but Australia’s classy, yet unheralded, women’s sevens rugby team will capture the imagination and plenty …
Continue reading Women’s rugby unearths Pearls for RioJarryd Hayne is expecting the Fijian rugby sevens team to make a strong push for the nation’s first Olympic medal in Rio. The San Francisco 49er, who represented Fiji in …
Continue reading Hayne backs Fiji’s Olympic medal prospectsExpect the unexpected from Brisbane boom rookie Carlin Anderson at this weekend’s NRL Auckland Nines as one of Queensland’s brightest young talents stakes his claim for a backline vacancy. The …
Continue reading Broncos to unleash Anderson at NinesMore players look set to be suspended after the Queensland Rugby League confirmed they would make a major announcement regarding their Emerging Origin camp investigation on Friday. QRL boss Peter …
Continue reading QRL set to ban more playersThey have revolutionised the 13-man-a-side game. Now national rugby league club champions Ipswich Jets want to do the same for the “boring” NRL Auckland Nines. NRL coach-in-waiting and Jets co-mentor …
Continue reading Let Qld and NSW champs play Nines: Jets

