Local News
3:09 PM AEDT | Fisher could
miss a month
MELBOURNE —Top St
Kilda defender Sam Fisher
will miss up to a month of
the AFL season with his
ankle injury.
2:59 PM AEDT | WELLINGTON — Michael
Clarke arrived back in New
Zealand yesterday the same
way he left a week ago, with
his head down and trying to
avoid attention.
2:56 PM AEDT | DOMINIC Monypenny said he was honoured to become Tasmania's first dual summer and winter Paralympian yesterday.
2:54 PM AEDT | THERE wasn't a comedian on the program for the Tasmanian Sports Awards on Friday.
2:51 PM AEDT | MELBOURNE - Queensland believes it's got the bowling attack to conquer the mountain of Victorian wickets required to bring home the Sheffield Shield.
The Bulls must beat the ladder- topping Bu
2:27 PM AEDT | THE excellent pre-season of Glenorchy's Brodie Moles ended on a high on Saturday night when the Western Bulldogs defeated St Kilda in the NAB Cup final at Etihad Stadium.
2:25 PM AEDT | KINGS Meadows comes up against Exeter in division 1 at Trevallyn for a straight-through women's bowls grand final appearance for either team.
Kings Meadows is stacked with experienced players.
2:24 PM AEDT | Carnival change: The self- assessment process of Tasmania's Christmas carnivals will go public next week. The Sports Carnivals Association of Tasmania is hosting an evening of strategic planning with the aim of "f
2:24 PM AEDT | NORTHERN swimmers Shani Burleigh and Nikki Heathcote were the two dominant performers at last weekend's Tasmanian age swimming championships in Hobart.
Burleigh, representing Riverside Aquatic
2:23 PM AEDT | SEVERAL of the best reinsmen in Australia will take on the top local drivers in the inaugural Tasmania v "The Rest" invitation series at Mowbray on Sunday night.
The Launceston Pacing Club came up
2:22 PM AEDT |
Rooney strikes: Wayne Rooney fired Manchester United back to the top of the Premier League as his double strike inspired a 3-0 win over Fulham, while Adam Johnson's first Manchester City goal rescued a
2:21 PM AEDT | Fairytale: Lote Tuqiri provided the dream start and his teammates, the fairytale finish as the Wests Tigers came back from the dead to beat Manly 26-22 in last night's thriller at the Sydney Football Stadium
12:27 PM AEDT | RICHMOND has warned its troubled midfielder Ben Cousins to curb his drinking. Revelations that the recovering drug addict has overindulged in alcohol over the past year came as he was readmitted to hospital at midnight on Sunday with stomach illness.
11:50 AM AEDT | THERE will be a battle of the generations next week, as the inaugural Esk Eightball Association Old versus New eightball competition gets under way at the Longford Country Club.
The competition wi
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY - Having overdosed on world records, it is now time for swimming to go cold turkey.
The sport's reputation has been battered by performance- enhancing suits that saw the record boo
1:00 AM AEDT | RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico - Australia's James Nitties eagled and added a birdie on his final hole yesterday morning to match American Chad Collins for the lead after 36 holes of the storm-hit PGA Pu
1:00 AM AEDT | MIAMI - Alistair Presnell couldn't afford a new car before the World Golf Championships event in Florida.
Now he can afford to go house-hunting, after a brilliant final round at the $9.26
1:00 AM AEDT | ALTHOUGH understandably proud to see former charges shine at the elite level, Launceston basketball devotee Julie Thomas takes just as much satisfaction from the other end of the scale.
"I just lo
1:00 AM AEDT | KINGSTOWN, St Vincent - West Indies cantered to a four-wicket victory in the fifth and final one- day international yesterday as Zimbabwe's brittle batting line-up crumbled again.
As expected,
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY - Blazing knocks from Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds have helped the defending champion Deccan Chargers to a 31-run Indian Premier League win over the Chennai Super Kings.
Gilchrist belt