Australians James Magnusson and Matt Targett could win the gold and silver medals in the 100m at this year’s London Games, according to two-time Olympic 1500m champion Grant Hackett. Hackett, …
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Australia’s cricket hierarchy hold no fears for Michael Clarke’s long-term future despite injury costing him a chunk of the looming West Indies tour. Coach Mickey Arthur was awaiting results from …
Continue reading No fear for Clarke future: Aust coachIsrael Folau is likely to again be offered a hefty promotional wage by the AFL as chief executive Andrew Demetriou looks to keep the rugby league convert in the game …
Continue reading AFL would have paid more for FolauBeautifully-bred filly Plucky Belle has landed her first metropolitan win at Sandown and leading trainer Peter Moody believes she will graduate to stakes class given time. The three-year-old is a …
Continue reading Plucky Belle breaks through in townWests Tigers NRL coach Tim Sheens denies the club’s surprise decision to let Mitch Brown join Canterbury has left them short of fullback options. The season-ending knee injury to rookie …
Continue reading Sheens happy with Tigers fullbacks in NRLBritish Olympic officials have washed their hands of the team’s head doctor who has advised Britain’s athletes to avoid the traditional handshake during the London Games. British Olympic Association (BOA) …
Continue reading Brits back down no Oly handshake adviceWorld champion lightweight rowers Anthony Edwards and Sam Beltz have put a down payment on Olympic selection by sensationally trumping Australia’s best heavyweights at the national titles in Perth. Edwards …
Continue reading Upset puts rowers close to Oly selectionAnxious to make up for last week’s Wangaratta debacle, St Kilda will take a full-strength squad to Perth to face West Coast on Saturday. The Saints were reduced to playing …
Continue reading Saints keen for hit-outShellshocked Australian coach Mickey Arthur has gone back to the drawing board to devise tricks to defeat Sri Lanka in Thursday’s tri-series decider. Arthur has bluntly told Australia’s players of …
Continue reading Aussie cricket coach orders plan changeMelbourne NRL coach Craig Bellamy says Canberra coach David Furner must think the Storm are a “bunch of hillbillies” if he believes the players are taught to tackle around the …
Continue reading Bellamy blasts Canberra NRL coach FurnerJamal Idris looms large, but so does Gold Coast’s fortress of Skilled Park when Canberra take on the Titans in their second round NRL clash on Saturday. Halfback Josh McCrone …
Continue reading Raiders look to make history against CoastTwo new faces feature in the Hurricanes Super Rugby team named to take on the Western Force in Perth on Friday. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen will start at tighthead prop and TJ …
Continue reading Hurricanes bench-warmers to play ForceChiefs coach Dave Rennie has kept the same starting team which dismantled the Blues 29-14 last week for Friday’s third-round Super Rugby match against the Crusaders in Napier. The only …
Continue reading Unchanged Chiefs to take on CrusadersFlemington trainer Dean Lawson is taking it one race at a time with Mr Chard who resumes following an injury-enforced layoff of a year in Saturday’s $1 million Newmarket Handicap …
Continue reading One day at a time with Mr ChardInjured Australian captain Michael Clarke will be joined on the sidelines by paceman James Pattinson for Thursday’s tri-series decider against Sri Lanka. Pattinson has strained a buttock muscle and will …
Continue reading Clarke, Pattinson out of one-day deciderThe outside barrier for Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker wasn’t in the script for trainer Greg Eurell but it hasn’t dented his confidence ahead of Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes. Pinker …
Continue reading Pinker Pinker draw not disastrous: EurellThe Ringmaster will have his final dress rehearsal for the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba later this month when he lines up at Doomben on Saturday. Almost every Toowoomba trainer …
Continue reading The Ringmaster warms up for WeetwoodNew Zealand’s hopes of exploiting helpful conditions and running through South Africa have fallen flat in the opening session of the first cricket Test in Dunedin. South Africa were 1-86 …
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