30 Oct 09 | CENTRAL COAST Mariners coach Lawrie McKinna admits he's made an official approach to Wellington Phoenix about in-form Englishman Paul Ifill, but remains pessimistic about the chances of signing ...
30 Oct 09 | MELBOURNE might have been where Simon Colosimo grew up but Sydney FC is where the star defender wants to be.
30 Oct 09 | South Australia have landed KP - that's Kieron Pollard, Trinidad and Tobago's star of the Twenty20 Champions League. The Trinidad and Tobago all-rounder joins Pakistani Shahid Afridi on the Redbacks' roster for the domestic T20 tournament, starting in late December.
30 Oct 09 | SPORTS funding will be cut by 15 per cent under recommendations from the still-to-be-released Crawford review.
30 Oct 09 | DELHI: IT WOULD sure pay to be a travel agent for Cricket Australia at the moment. Three days after having to send Moises Henriques to India as injury cover, wicketkeeper Graham Manou is the ...
30 Oct 09 | THE downside of upping the number of Australian representatives is that NSW are rarely at full-strength.The Blues begin their domestic season on Sunday with a Ford Ranger Cup match against Western ...
30 Oct 09 | NAGPUR: Eighty-seven runs leaked in game one, 108 runs in game two. When it comes to trying to curb India's scoring in the last 10 overs of its innings, Ricky Ponting admits Australia has a big ...
30 Oct 09 | If the selectors want a team guaranteed to perform internationally, they need look no further than Katich and co, writes Will Swanton.
30 Oct 09 | Clearly, it's going to get ugly before Australia's World Cup bid gets over its first significant hurdle. Commitments about infrastructure spending have to be made within the next couple of months, and the scaremongering is as premeditated as it is predictable, writes Michael Cockerill.
30 Oct 09 | PERFORMER OF THE YEAR Gary Ablett jnrCraig AlexanderVictor DarchinyanCadel EvansStephanie GilmoreJarryd HayneSteve HookerMitchell JohnsonEmma MoffattDani SamuelsJessicah SchipperMark Webber ...
30 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA'S biggest sports stars hope you believe they have what it takes to reign supreme after nominations were announced yesterday for The Sydney Morning Herald Sports Performer of the ...
30 Oct 09 | OLYMPIC and world championship pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker says claiming a world record is his greatest ambition - and he reckons he is ripe to do it in Australia this summer. Speaking at the announcement yesterday of nominations for The Sydney Morning Herald Sports Performer of the Year awards, presented by Colonial First State, Hooker said he felt he was ''close'' to setting a new mark.
30 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIA may have salvaged an opening match draw against New Zealand in the Four Nations rugby league tournament but that wasn't enough to save one TAB Sportsbet punter a hefty loss after taking the short odds on offer about the Kangaroos to win as red-hot favourites.
30 Oct 09 | ''I'D BE mad if I didn't,'' replied John Thompson when asked if his training style was modelled on the master Bart Cummings's. ''Very much so. Feed them the best you can and work them hard. Long, ...
30 Oct 09 | HONG KONG-based jockey Zac Purton will make a trip to Australia after picking up the ride on international raider Munsef in Tuesday's $5.65 million Melbourne Cup.Purton, who finished third in the ...
30 Oct 09 | A little over a year ago, Blake Shinn was basking in racing's limelight. He had reached the apex of his profession, seemingly overnight.It appeared every camera lens and microphone was trained on ...
30 Oct 09 | Bob Skelton was hardly the classic Melbourne Cup jockey, but style isn't a necessary quality over 3200 metres at Flemington, particularly in the mud.Back in 1976 when Skelton teamed with another ...
30 Oct 09 | A friendship formed with the view of plundering the spring riches of the Melbourne carnival is set to pay the ultimate reward for owner Geoff Evans and trainer Danny O'Brien at Flemington ...
30 Oct 09 | Six weeks into a solo training career and John Thompson has two runners in Saturday's Victoria Derby.It has been one heck of a transition for the 35-year-old, whose father, Vic Thompson, once ...
30 Oct 09 | MELBOURNE Cup winner Efficient is under an injury cloud, with three Racing Victoria veterinarians putting the favourite for next Tuesday's race through a thorough examination yesterday.