15 Oct 09 | Seve Ballesteros has faced four brain operations with the same fighting spirit he displayed on the golf course, writes Brendan Gallagher in Madrid.
15 Oct 09 | EVEN as it was announced yesterday that Serena Williams would again be the headline act at January's Sydney International, tournament organisers were monitoring the outcome of an ITF probe into the world No.1's US Open outburst.
15 Oct 09 | HOPES of Cadel Evans winning the Tour de France have risen measurably with the selection of a far more mountainous route for next year's race.
15 Oct 09 | SOUTH AUSTRALIA must get past Tasmanian captain George Bailey if they are to press for outright points on the final day of their match at Adelaide Oval today.Bailey's unbeaten 72 took the visitors ...
15 Oct 09 | BANGALORE: Justin Langer was watching Deccan Chargers play Trinidad and Tobago on the big screen in the team hotel bar on Wednesday even more intently than his Somerset teammates. For three hours the former Australian opener hardly moved, admitting afterwards he had not ''watched that much cricket for ages''. He had good reason to be on edge: a Chargers win would have sent him into retirement, effective immediately.
15 Oct 09 | Andrew Johns is spreading his wings, with the master halfback's flourishing coaching career now stretching to England. Johns will take on a pre-season coaching stint with Super League club Warrington, the club he played for during a short time in 2005 and who won this year's Challenge Cup.
15 Oct 09 | WEEK by week, game by game. This is the mantra of Shannon Cole, for he cannot afford to look any further ahead than his next 90 minutes.Tonight, he will run out for Sydney FC against Adelaide and ...
15 Oct 09 | AFTER claiming top spot with impressive back-to-back triumphs, Sydney FC boss Vitezslav Lavicka will look to continue his side's stellar run by naming an unchanged line-up for tonight's clash with ...
15 Oct 09 | BRISBANE ROAR will today announce Ange Postecoglou as their new coach, with the former Young Socceroos boss expected to be on the sideline for tomorrow night's home match against Central Coast Mariners.
15 Oct 09 | SAN SALVADOR: Honduras qualified for the World Cup for only the second time in their history on Wednesday after a 1-0 victory at El Salvador and a heartbreaking draw for Costa Rica.Carlos Pavon ...
15 Oct 09 | Italy 3 Cyprus 2 PARMA: Italy coach Marcello Lippi said the work begins now for the team's defence of their title after finishing their World Cup qualification campaign with an unimpressive 3-2 ...
15 Oct 09 | MONTEVIDEO: Fear not. The greatest story in football is still on after Diego Maradona's Argentina scraped into the World Cup in predictably dramatic circumstances.Mario Bolatti's goal six ...
15 Oct 09 | FOOTBALL Federation Australia has gone into damage control to play down any suggestion that the pitchside bust-up between Socceroos team manager Gary Moretti and Oman coach Claude Le Roy could ...
15 Oct 09 | IF TIM CAHILL didn't exist, Australia would have to invent him. Rarely has a player become such a key component of a team. It seems if Cahill doesn't score, Australia often don't.
15 Oct 09 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is tackling the big issues - he's posted a picture of himself eating a biscuit on Twitter.
15 Oct 09 | FORMER Fremantle and St Kilda defender Heath Black admits an alcohol habit of up to 20 beers a day to blunt the effects of depression and anxiety is behind his latest drink-driving charge, which ...
15 Oct 09 | Veteran forward yet to sign contract with Lions and still in Carlton's calculations for the pre-season draft.
15 Oct 09 | AT LEAST nine Wallabies are facing the task of playing two matches in four days at venues thousands of kilometres apart to start their northern hemisphere grand slam tour.
15 Oct 09 | THE World Anti-Doping Agency has come down on the revolutionary blood therapy that helped Parramatta five-eighth Daniel Mortimer recover from a hip injury in time for a grand-final qualifier last month - a decision that was meant to clarify its position on the controversial treatment but still raised some NRL eyebrows.
15 Oct 09 | IT speaks volumes for the power of Fuifui Moimoi that Jarryd Hayne, the man many have attempted to stop in recent weeks and months, spent yesterday discussing not the impact of himself but of his slightly stockier Parramatta teammate.