Top three-year-olds Sizzling and Epaulette will have to contend with wide draws in the $1.3 million Stradbroke Handicap. Pre-draw favourite Sizzling has stall 18 while the Peter Snowden-trained Epaulette has …
Continue reading Favourites draw wide in Stradbroke Handicap FieldAfter delivering one of the worst opening quarters in St Kilda’s recent history, coach Scott Watters says his AFL side needs to be ferocious from the opening bounce against West …
Continue reading St Kilda need fast start against EaglesThe State of Origin series gets under way Wednesday night where New South Wales will look to new coach and former Origin great Laurie Daley, in a bid to break …
Continue reading NSW vs Queensland preview, tips and teams 2013 State of Origin Game 1Queensland assistant coach Michael Hagan has urged referees Shayne Hayne and Ashley Klein to show some leniency in the opening exchanges of Wednesday night’s first State of Origin rugby league …
Continue reading Origin referees could show leniency: HaganSouth Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn is a doubt for the opening match of the Champions Trophy, against India in Cardiff on Thursday, because of a side strain. Steyn felt …
Continue reading Steyn injury a worry for South AfricaA fed-up Tim May has quit his international players’ union post, saying cricket’s powerbrokers use threats and backroom deals to rule the sport. The former Australian Test spinner resigned as …
Continue reading Tim May quits, blasts ICC cultureThe odds of a NSW victory in State Of Origin game 1 continue to shorten at Sportingbet with the Blues set to start tonight’s series opener at ANZ stadium as …
Continue reading State Of Origin 2013: Punters back NSW Blues63 percent of all money wagered on tonight’s opening game of the 2013 State of Origin series with online bookmaker sportsbet has been on Laurie Daley’s New South Wales. $500 …
Continue reading Queensland hold favouritism for 2013 State of Origin seriesAustralian Tim May has quit as the chief of cricket’s international players’ union, slamming the sports’ powerbrokers and the direction they’re taking the game. May, the former Australian Test offspinner, …
Continue reading Tim May quits as cricket players’ chiefGreater Western Sydney’s Lachie Whitfield was named on Wednesday as the AFL Rising Star nominee for round 10. The 18-year-old, selected by GWS with pick No.1 in the 2012 Draft, …
Continue reading GWS’s Whitfield is AFL Rising Star nomineeShane Warne believes Pakistani-born legspinner Fawad Ahmed can become an unlikely Ashes hero for Australia in England. Former refugee Ahmed, 31, having fled his native Pakistan in 2010, will be …
Continue reading Warne backs spinner Ahmed for AshesAustralia expect Michael Clarke to face England in their Champions Trophy opener despite the captain travelling to London on Wednesday for specialist treatment on his longstanding back problem. The injury …
Continue reading Injured Clarke expected to face EnglandRichmond legend Royce Hart hasn’t forgotten the faces of Tiger supporters after he helped deliver the AFL club’s drought-breaking 1967 premiership. And the four-time premiership centre half-forward remembered supporters again …
Continue reading AFL legend Hart recalls Tigers’ flag joyNSW coach Laurie Daley has been waiting nine months for this day. After all the talking, discussions over selections, and how to break Queensland’s seven-year State of Origin stranglehold Daley …
Continue reading Laurie Daley’s day of destiny arrivesWorld No.1 Serena Williams revealed a sweet-toothed recipe is aiding her quest for a first French Open crown in 11 years after reaching the semi-finals on Tuesday with a 6-1 …
Continue reading Sweet-toothed Serena back in semisOnly a late call from pregnant partner Samantha can stop Johnathan Thurston breaking State of Origin’s consecutive games record at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday night. The North Queensland star will …
Continue reading Boyd and Thurston dispel fitness fearsIt has been a devastating fall from grace for Bangladesh’s Mohammad Ashraful, known as international cricket’s boy wonder and a national sporting hero. Ashraful, suspended on Tuesday by Bangladesh authorities …
Continue reading Ashraful, no longer Bangladesh boy wonderJo-Wilfried Tsonga sent Roger Federer crashing out of the French Open quarter-finals on Tuesday to take a step closer to ending France’s 30-year wait for a men’s champion at Roland …
Continue reading Tsonga stuns Federer to reach French semi

