National News
17 Nov 09 | LONDON: Page 13 of a French newspaper holds the key to the identity of Australia's Four Nations-winning Kangaroos. ''Toujours Aussies implacables'' read the headline; and after researching the words, Australian coach Tim Sheens wants this side to be known as the Implacables.
17 Nov 09 | MARCOUSSIS: French rugby union officials are hopeful that a problematic fixture against South Africa that comes one day after the start of the football World Cup in the country will soon be ...
17 Nov 09 | JOHANNESBURG: South African rugby fans' anger has mounted over an off-key reggae singer who "butchered" their national anthem before the Springboks' Test match defeat by France at the ...
17 Nov 09 | LONDON: Former Wallabies lock Dan Vickerman will travel to Oxford University to officially challenge them to face his Cambridge team in next month's Varsity rugby clash.Vickerman will make the ...
17 Nov 09 | PARIS: South Africa winger Bryan Habana has been cited for kicking France's Vincent Clerc in the face during Friday's international in Toulouse.The case will be heard by the International Rugby ...
17 Nov 09 | EDINBURGH: With no time to mope, the Wallabies have arrived in Edinburgh vowing to become only the second Australian side to complete an undefeated tour of the UK and Ireland.Fullback Adam ...
17 Nov 09 | Australian five-eighth Matt Giteau is one of seven nominations for the IRB's world player of the year.
17 Nov 09 | DUBLIN: David Pocock came of age as an international Test open-side breakaway against Ireland. Now the Wallabies selectors must decide whether to continue rotating him with George Smith, or make the Western Force back-rower the permanent No.7.
17 Nov 09 | Swamped by a sea of green, the luckless Wallabies were left ruing the fact they couldn't get the ''rub of the green''.
17 Nov 09 | The grand slam quest for the Wallabies is over, stopped cruelly in its tracks with a last-minute try by Brian O'Driscoll playing in his 100th Test. The try was under the posts so the Wallabies were denied even the fleeting hope of a missed conversion which would have provided them with a miraculous escape.
16 Nov 09 | BERLIN: Beijing Olympics star Michael Phelps insisted he would use his poor form at Berlin's world record-laden shortcourse World Cup event as future motivation with an eye to the London 2012 ...
16 Nov 09 | IT IS 20 years since David Hayes has been involved in a Railway Stakes win, but Better Loosen Up's victory in 1989 has him cautiously optimistic about All American's chances in Perth's premier ...
16 Nov 09 | AN AUDACIOUS plan hatched by the Central Coast Mariners to lure Newcastle Jets captain Matt Thompson and former Sydney FC skipper Mark Rudan looks to have fallen through after both players fell outside the club's wage structure.
16 Nov 09 | Tiger Woods chose Melbourne. Greg Norman's arm is in a sling after shoulder surgery. So welcome to Sydney … Freddie Couples.Perhaps it is the first symptom of a Tiger-sized hangover. But there was ...
16 Nov 09 | FREDDIE COUPLES hasn't quite got the stature of that guy who played in Melbourne last week, nor has he the loyal Australian fan base of the ageing Greg Norman, who still has a touch of magic about ...
16 Nov 09 | GUADALAJARA: Michelle Wie's long wait for her first LPGA Tour title ended with a two-shot triumph in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
16 Nov 09 | Researchers are trying to uncover the why behind Wagga Wagga - the NSW country town that has produced a swag of sporting champions. Queensland's Griffith University is leading research into identifying potential elite athletes, which could be the key to improving Australia's international sporting success.
16 Nov 09 | ALISTER McDERMOTT doesn't know much about his famous father's Test debut against the West Indies 25 years ago, but he's more than happy to talk about his first wicket.Dubbed ''Billy the Kid'', ...
16 Nov 09 | JOSH HAZLEWOOD doesn't take little steps - not at 196 centimetres tall - and the next giant stride in the teenage paceman's career is expected to come today when he makes his Sheffield Shield ...
16 Nov 09 | And so the baton passes. It does not seem long ago that Brett Lee was a teenager playing for Campbelltown in the under-21 comp, and scaring the wits out of batsmen. Now his four- and five-day ...