MELBOURNE Usain Bolt's mission to win a professional football contract in Australia has dominated the A-League's pre-season and could prove an intriguing sideshow throughout a championship that has lacked superstar glamour in recent years.
MELBOURNE Leading a scandal-hit team dismissed as Australia's worst in 30 years, captain Tim Paine's pledge to win back hearts and minds seemed a fanciful, if noble, aspiration in the leadup to the test series against Pakistan.
MELBOURNE A Rugby Championship that fizzled out a week early delivered a late dividend on Saturday with a pair of stunning comebacks that restored pride in New Zealand and brought a sliver of hope to Michael Cheika's Wallabies a year out from the World Cup.
MELBOURNE Kevin Roberts, the face of Cricket Australia during toxic negotiations for a new pay deal with players, will succeed long-serving James Sutherland as the board's CEO later this month.
MELBOURNE Kevin Roberts, the face of Cricket Australia during toxic negotiations for a new pay deal with players, will succeed long-serving James Sutherland as the board's CEO later this month.
* Roberts says will work hard to gain players' trust (Adds details, quotes, byline)
MELBOURNE A governance crisis that has blighted Australian soccer for two years and threatens the nation's defence of their Asian Cup title in January is set to come to a head at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday.
MELBOURNE, Sept 30 A governance crisis that has blighted Australian soccer for two years and threatens the nation's defence of their Asian Cup title in January is set to come to a head at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday.
MELBOURNE Towering American ruckman Mason Cox has played a starring role in the Collingwood Magpies' unlikely charge to the Australian Football League Grand Final, and the Texan trailblazer will loom large in Saturday's title-decider against West Coast Eagles.
MELBOURNE As Steve Smith and David Warner padded up at suburban Sydney cricket grounds over the weekend, the warm spring sunshine may have seemed fitting weather for the banned Australian cricketers to take a small but important step in their rehabilitation.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he presumes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the U.S. response to Saudi Arabia will likely be "very severe" but that he still wanted to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.