Secret Admirer and Shoot Out both opened as the $3.80 favourites for Saturday’s Group 1 George Main Stakes at Randwick racecourse but both runners have eased slightly out to their …
Continue reading Danleigh drifts in 2012 Underwood Stakes oddsManly coach Geoff Toovey expects Friday night’s preliminary final with Melbourne to buck recent history and actually be a tightly contested game. Despite building up the NRL’s fiercest rivalry as …
Continue reading No blowout this time, says TooveyIt speaks volumes for what Sydney have done for Rhyce Shaw’s AFL career that the heart of his father, former Collingwood skipper Ray Shaw, will lean towards the Swans on …
Continue reading Shaw leans to Swans in AFL family face-offOnly Matthew Hayden could link Kevin Pietersen’s future, the Australian team’s plight, the state of world cricket and fishing rods in one press conference. Or, it seemed, in one answer. …
Continue reading Hayden draws curtain on cricket careerThe pain of being stripped of two NRL premierships still burns Melbourne, but Billy Slater has warned against letting it become the Storm’s sole focus ahead of Friday’s NRL preliminary …
Continue reading Stripped NRL crowns not motivating SlaterAs Michael Maguire puts it, Nathan Merritt is South Sydney. For the local junior who grew up on the Block and whose earliest childhood memories involved jumping the fence at …
Continue reading Merritt’s Souths loyalty justifiedFormer Test captain Ian Chappell has labelled Australia’s skipper George Bailey a handicap to the side in their World Twenty20 campaign, accusing Bailey of not carrying his weight as a …
Continue reading Ian Chappell blasts Bailey’s selectionThe hurdles are huge. The reward is even bigger. But Sydney and Collingwood aren’t thinking of either of those things ahead of Friday night’s AFL preliminary final. If the Swans …
Continue reading Swans, Pies set for epic AFL prelimBerrick Barnes says whether he or Kurtley Beale wears the Wallabies No.10 jersey in South Africa they’ll both be looking to write a happier chapter in Australia’s forgettable history in …
Continue reading Barnes happy to play any Wallabies roleCricket Australia’s selectors have shown plenty of faith in former national Twenty20 skipper Cameron White and some of that faith was repaid with his unbeaten 22 against Ireland, coach Mickey …
Continue reading White plays confidence-boosting knockThis was a funeral with a face far too young. As 22-year-old AFL player John McCarthy was remembered by more than a 1000 mourners in his Victorian seaside home town …
Continue reading AFL player John McCarthy mournedThe Holden Racing Team has produced an immediate response to new V8 Supercar entrants Mercedes Benz and Nissan by unveiling its Car of the Future chassis. Just a day after …
Continue reading Holden rolls out new V8 challengerQuade Cooper’s patience with conservative rugby has worn out and he wants the Wallabies to be brave, not boring, to boost their fortunes and lagging support. Cooper is the latest …
Continue reading Cooper calls for Wallabies to be braveFew weeks have featured more discussion, debate and analysis from the AFL community about the number 11 – and it has nothing to do with Jim Stynes, Glenn Archer or …
Continue reading Pies’ AFL streak is in the past: RoosPace is the ace up Australia’s sleeve at the World Twenty20 and vice-captain Shane Watson says Colombo’s Premadasa Stadium is offering plenty for the quicks. Watson was a star with …
Continue reading Quicks suited to Colombo pitch: WatsonA clinical performance from NSW paceman Trent Copeland has put the Blues on the path towards victory in their Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia at the WACA Ground. At …
Continue reading NSW’s Copeland rips through WA line-upDespite their short odds, Hawthorn have been extremely well backed during the week, including one punter who has bet $100,000 on them with online bookmaker sportsbet at odds of $1.14. …
Continue reading $20,000 placed on Adelaide Crows to beat Collingwood MagpiesNew Zealand have put the disastrous series against Bangladesh two years ago behind them ahead of their opening match at the cricket World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka. Opener Martin Guptill …
Continue reading Bangladesh a major T20 challenge, NZ say


