It’s been a tennis tournament of carnage in Auckland, with barely a name player left in the Heineken Open after three days. Illness, injury, bad luck and rusty play means …
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Rested and ready for action, Ross Taylor returns to the New Zealand team for the second game in their seven-match series against Sri Lanka in Hamilton. Taylor was rested from …
Continue reading Timely return for NZ’s Ross TaylorTo say Hobart need a bit of luck to make the Big Bash League Twenty20 semi-finals is an understatement. And so far, the portents are not so good for the …
Continue reading Hobart aim to keep BBL finals hopes aliveEngland have smashed the Prime Minister’s XI all over Manuka Oval, with Ian Bell scoring 187 in their 6/391 from 50 overs in Canberra on Wednesday. Bell’s innings is the …
Continue reading Bell drives England’s 6/391 v PM’s XICasey Dellacqua will go a second day without competitive play with rain delaying her bid for a quarter-final berth at the Hobart International. The event’s top-seed was due to play …
Continue reading Rain delays Dellacqua’s Hobart QF bidJordan Thompson says it was about four years and a foot and a half ago that he could beat Australia’s top men’s tennis player Nick Kyrgios but he’s hopeful he’s …
Continue reading Thompson hoping to catch KyrgiosFormer bad boy Brydan Klein’s first trip back to the Australian Open as a Brit has ended in a first-round qualifying loss to local hope Dane Propoggia. The Perth-born Klein …
Continue reading Klein bows out in Open qualifyingXavier Doherty admits to feeling the extra pressure and expectations generated by being the only specialist spinner in Australia’s pace-packed cricket World Cup squad. The Tasmanian left-arm tweaker is the …
Continue reading Doherty feeling World Cup pressureAustralian youngster Jordan Thompson has given defending champion Japan’s Kei Nishikori a scare in their Kooyong Classic clash. The 20-year-old Sydneysider pushed the world No.5 to three sets before the …
Continue reading Aust youngster pushes NishikoriSingles success has proved short-lived for New Zealand’s Michael Venus at the Heineken Open. Venus couldn’t follow up his enthralling first round victory over Colombia’s Alejandro Gonzalez, going down in …
Continue reading Michael Venus not rising any furtherNew Adelaide coach Phil Walsh insists gun midfielder Patrick Dangerfield remains a senior leader at the AFL club, despite being overlooked for the captaincy amid rampant speculation about his future. …
Continue reading No hurt feelings for overlooked CrowsUnfazed by her summer struggles, Samantha Stosur says it’s an honour to lead the local charge at the Australian Open for a sixth straight year. Stosur was on Wednesday seeded …
Continue reading Stosur again leads Australian Open chargeJason Day is confident he can use the momentum from his record equalling round in Maui to break through in Honolulu. Fresh off a blistering career best round of 62 …
Continue reading Day to ride Hawaii confidence waveThe big names continue to fall at the Auckland Open, with injury ruling out two world top 20 Spaniards. Fifth seed and world No.17 Tommy Robredo pulled out of his …
Continue reading Two Spanish seeds out of Auckland OpenAnother controversial NRL finals exit would cause a riot in Townsville, North Queensland backrower Gavin Cooper joked. But the Maroons hopeful was deadly serious when he claimed there would be …
Continue reading No excuses for slow NRL start: CowboysFar from distracted, Novak Djokovic says fatherhood has given him fresh incentive to land a record fifth Australian Open crown and will only make him harder to stop at Melbourne …
Continue reading Fatherhood makes Djokovic hungrierTwo-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka has missed out on a seeding for the first grand slam tournament of the year after enduring an injury-interrupted 2014 campaign. Azarenka, 25, ended …
Continue reading No Open seeding for AzarenkaKurt Busch, the NASCAR driver known as ‘The Outlaw’, testified on Tuesday he believes his ex-girlfriend is a trained assassin dispatched on covert missions around the world who once returned …
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