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04 Aug 09 | DEPARTING Newcastle coach Brian Smith might be asked to step aside immediately or give greater control of the team to assistant Rick Stone at a meeting of the Knights board tomorrow night.
With Sto...
04 Aug 09 | FURIOUS Brisbane chief executive Bruno Cullen and some of his star players are threatening legal action against newspapers owned by the club’s major stakeholder, News Ltd, over drug allegations &...
04 Aug 09 | WESTERN SUBURBS used to base their case of the Fibros against the Silvertails on the haves and the have nots. But this Wests Tigers side has something that we haven?t seen for a while. Against a silvertails line-up that has a lot going for it, the Tigers have added steel.
04 Aug 09 | MICHAEL CLARKE produced an innings of admirable resilience to save the Edgbaston Test for Australia even if it took a couple of freak occurences to raise his century.
04 Aug 09 | MIKE DE KOCK, one of the world’s most-travelled horse trainers, indicated yesterday that he was keen to target, for a second time, this year’s $5.5 million Melbourne Cup after he lodged two entries for Australia’s most important race.
04 Aug 09 | A BOXING promoter’s dream – Barry Hall versus John Hopoate – is a distinct possibility now that the Australian heavyweight champion and former NRL bad boy has agreed to fight on the undercard of the David Tua-Shane Cameron bout.
04 Aug 09 | THE sense of relief among the College Street suits is almost palpable.
This time last year they were selling ice to the Eskimos. Now they’re selling Robbie Fowler, Jason Culina and two new te...
04 Aug 09 | JASON CULINA was not the star attraction at yesterday’s A-League launch. That honour, of course, belonged to North Queensland signing Robbie Fowler.
04 Aug 09 | LIKE most swimmers, Stephanie Rice couldn’t be happier that, from January 1, she will no longer have to take what seems like forever dressing up to go to work.
Rice is delighted for two reas...
04 Aug 09 | THE loophole was there and precedent had been set, but Australian head coach Alan Thompson refused to take the easy way out.
No excuses. His team was no longer second-best in the world. It is now ...
04 Aug 09 | HE COULDN’T quite get Grant Hackett’s 1500m world record, despite wearing a high-tech polyurethane swimsuit, but Tunisia’s Oussama Mellouli hopes he can get some hints from the man who steered Hackett to the record in Fukuoka, Japan eight years ago.
04 Aug 09 | IT’S often been Shane Warne producing a ripper that turns a series but Graeme Swann’s scorching off break that shattered Ricky Ponting’s stumps on day four has taken pole position...
04 Aug 09 | It is believed Edgbaston staff received a bomb threat in a coded message at the start of the lunch break and dispatched experts to investigate.
"We can confirm a short security alert at the Ed...
04 Aug 09 | AMID scenes of high tension and before a large Monday crowd, the Australians battled hard to avoid defeat on the final day of another dramatic Test match.
Over the years, they have not been all th...
04 Aug 09 | MICHAEL HUSSEY produced his highest score in eight months as Australia grimly attempted to save the Edgbaston Test.
03 Aug 09 | ELDER statesman Adam MacDougall has absolved departing coach Brian Smith of any blame for Newcastle's 30-18 surrender to the Sydney Roosters at EnergyAustralia Stadium on Saturday night, suggestin...
03 Aug 09 | Rookie halfback Josh McCrone insists he won't be taking future NRL selection for granted, despite playing a starring role in the Canberra Raiders' record 56-0 win over the Brisbane Broncos on ...
03 Aug 09 | Jon Green's first try in the NRL ensured the Dragons would smash a hoodoo that has dogged them for the best part of a decade.
The unlikely hero, a toiling prop who's spent much of the seas...
03 Aug 09 | Karmichael Hunt's new employer, the Gold Coast Football Club, remains unfazed by reports implicating their star signing in a State of Origin drinking binge, insisting they have full confidence the AFL's highest profile investment will pay dividends.
03 Aug 09 | The All Blacks have bewildered the rugby world with their shoddy play leaving international correspondents mystified by their 2009 demise although most have been only too happy to fire a few bullets i...