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Straddie preview: jockey out to make most of second chances

Horses Tegan Harrison, a chance on Bam’s On Fire in a race she knows well, has unfinished business in the feature after her horror fall last year

5th Jun 2020 7:45 PM

NBA star Patty Mills calls out Australia’s leaders

Basketball NBA star calls for Australia’s leaders to do better on black lives

5th Jun 2020 7:00 PM

Revealed! Fans set for return to footy

News NRL 2020: Fans allowed to attend games in corporate boxes

AFL legend doubles down on friendly fire at club

AFL Andrew McLeod doubles down on Adelaide Crows criticism

The day I fell overboard landing a feisty flathead

Fishing IT was a valuable fishing lesson on three fronts.

AFL’s ‘hypocritical’ drug testing call under fire

AFL Gerard Healy lashes ‘downright negligent’ ASADA.

Fake teeth and loose laces: Meet the NRL’s newest star

Rugby League Inside the world of new Canberra No.7 George Williams.

Horse Racing

Special technology will check race punters

Horses Everyone entering Royal Randwick on Saturday will be checked by thermal cameras, the first deployment of such measures at an Australian sporting venue.

Sydney’s spring racing riches to remain

Horses Sydney’s showpiece spring racing carnival will go ahead.

Busy colt primed to defy 27 years of Straddie history

Horses Stradbroke Handicap: Dawn Passage primed to defy 27 years of history

Victorian trainers torn over spring racing reshuffle

Spring Carnival Racing Victoria wait before unveiling 2020 spring racing calendar.

Spring Carnival shake-up gets huge tick of approval

Horses The best horses are at their best in late November.

Spring racing facing major shake-up to avoid AFL finals...

Horses AFL final series on collision course with Spring Racing Carnival.

Iconic Birdsville races cancelled

News But a 2021 date has been announced

NRL

Molan denies mocking Pacific Islander names

Rugby League Channel 9 rugby league personality Erin Molan has denied mocking the names of Pacific Islander players on 2GB after a live-radio slip-up

‘Embarrassing’ situation compounds Broncos disaster

Rugby League Broncos player ratings v Roosters: Twos and threes abound.

Seibold: Record loss is all my fault

Rugby League Broncos coach takes full responsibility for record 59-0 defeat.

Order a full-scale inquiry into helpless Broncos

Rugby League Why Brisbane were helpless to stop the Roosters.

Historic slump to settle true super coach debate

Rugby League It’s Wayne Bennett v Craig Bellamy.

How Roosters’ Queenslander added to Broncos woes

Rugby League Former Broncos player Lindsay Collins stars for Roosters.

Roosters run riot as Broncos suffer record humiliation

Rugby League Not enough words left to describe the hole Brisbane now in

Cricket

Loose Gannon to head out west

Cricket Cameron Gannon, the Sheffield Shield’s leading wicket-taker last season, will take his late career form from Queensland to Western Australia.

Pay dispute pushes Australian cricket to brink of civil war

Cricket Cricket Australia and players at war again over pay.

Windies holdouts give Aussies plenty of food for thought

Cricket Three West Indies players pull out of England tour.

New details: Warne biopic gets movie backing

Movies A documentary following the rise of Shane Warne has been backed by Screen...

Gabba to kick off Indian summer

Cricket Gabba wins battle to host first Test of mouth-watering summer series

Drastic threat amid cricket’s cost-cutting

Cricket Grave concerns hover over future of community cricket in Australia

Selection chief axed as cash crisis cuts deep

Cricket Queensland Cricket staff have been left dismayed.

Soccer

Penniless foreigners left scrambling to put food on table

Soccer Players reliant in some cases on cash handouts from their union or on money sent from family in their homelands.

All systems go: Government clears PL’s June restart

Soccer English Premier League gets government green light for restart

COVID-19 bodyguards to keep A-League stars safe

Soccer The A-League will finalise a detailed virus checklist this week

Boy, 6, shows off crazy six-pack

Health He first took the internet by storm in 2017

Rugby Union

Burgess says ‘snake’ ruined his career

Rugby Union Rabbitohs great Sam Burgess has ripped into the man he says used him as a “pawn” during England’s Rugby World Cup disaster.

Contract rebels prove final straw for fed-up Reds

Rugby Union Queensland Reds to seek compensation for loss of trio.

77 gone as Rugby Australia slashes jobs

Rugby Union A third of Rugby Australia’s full-time staff have been sacked

Rugby union's ugly blueprint to survival

Rugby Union Rugby Australia is step closer to being able to continue operating.

Mutiny twist: Rodda to defect to Super Rugby rival

Rugby Union Wallabies lock has fallen out with Queensland coach Brad Thorn.

Rugby’s drastic five-team comp revealed

Rugby Union Western Force return in Rugby Australia five-team national comp

Merciless NRL to pick at carcass of rugby

Rugby League NRL clubs are set to launch cross-code raids

Netball

Super start: Rising star has fire in the belly

Netball With training restrictions easing, Firebirds defender Kim Jenner aims to hit the ground running as Super Netball players gear up for the start of the season

Super Netball, trans-Tasman clash given green light

Netball Super Netball teams can begin group training again.

High spirits: Firebird's journey of discovery in isolation

Netball Mi Mi keen to make her mark on and off the netball court

Super Netball won’t be starting any time soon

Netball CEO Chris Symington admitted they have work to do.

Star Lightning defender recharged during enforced break

Netball With the competition postponed due to COVID-19, the 30-year-old has benefited from...

Folaus ‘annoy the heck out of each other’ in lockdown

Sport Israel and Maria Folau have reconnected and having some fun.

Big pay sacrifice ‘what was best for the game’

Netball Townsville netball star returns home to ride out the coronavirus wave

AFL

Hall of Fame legend’s best one-liners

AFL Dennis Cometti became the voice of the AFL thanks to his quick-wit and brilliant one-liners. Here are the best he ever produced

Six bold predictions for restarted season ahead

Supercoach KFC AFL SuperCoach: Six bold predictions for restarted season.

Your club’s boom and bust AFL SuperCoach picks

Supercoach Who should be on the trade radar for Round 2?

AFL misses the board as NRL wins TV rights reboot for 2020

AFL Player wages hang in the balance for the AFL

Tennis

Kyrgios got smashed then smashed Rafa

Tennis One of Nick Kyrgios’s friends has told the “freakish” story of the day the Aussie ace “dusted” tennis legend Rafael Nadal after going on a huge bender

Barty’s COVID-19 reflections reveals the “surreal’’

News World tennis No. 1 Ash Barty reflects on her 2019

Tennis goes the big squeeze to make up for lost time

Tennis The Cincinnati Masters could be moved to Flushing Meadows this year

Federer’s parting message to Alan Jones

Tennis Roger Federer issues congratulatory message to Alan Jones

Tennis world mourns loss of Aussie legend

Tennis Australian tennis great Ashley Cooper dies aged 83

This is the highest paid sports woman in history

Tennis Naomi Osaka is highest paid female athlete in history

Kyrgios claims he sleeps with female fans ‘weekly’

Dating "If I’m not seeing someone it’s a weekly thing"

Golf

Star’s excruciating wardrobe malfunction

Golf NFL superstar Tom Brady has become a human plaything for the internet after a wardrobe malfunction overshadowed his Tiger Woods showdown.

Tiger ready to tear apart Tom Brady

Golf Tiger Woods expects to dominate with partner Peyton Manning.

Greg Norman braces for $23 million hit

Celebrity Greg Norman is hoping it’s third time lucky

Chest helps Insta sensation’s golf game

Golf Former pro golfer fields her most frequently asked questions

Adam Scott takes tiny course to the world

Golf Golf pro shares his round of golf at Maleny course on Instagram

How’s this for a golf course water hazard?

Offbeat Saltwater croc snapped lounging next to warning sign

British Open cancelled, Masters makes way

Golf British Open cancelled, Masters makes way.

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AFL legend doubles down on friendly fire at club

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Busy colt primed to defy 27 years of Straddie history

Victorian trainers torn over spring racing reshuffle

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Molan denies mocking Pacific Islander names

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premium_icon Pay dispute pushes Australian cricket to brink of civil war

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Drastic threat amid cricket’s cost-cutting

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All systems go: Government clears PL’s June restart

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Boy, 6, shows off crazy six-pack

Burgess says ‘snake’ ruined his career

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