NorgdomHayden axed from Twenty20, ODI squads
2pointsStruggling opener Matthew Hayden has been omitted from Australia's squads for the Twenty20 and one-day international series against South Africa.
Wild Oats XI's record win 'the toughest'
1pointsWild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards says this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race was the toughest he has known.
Cousins to start official duties with the Tigers
1pointsRichmond's newest recruit Ben Cousins will train with the Tigers for the first time today. The Tigers chose Cousins with their only pick in yesterday's AFL preseason draft, backflipping on a previous pledge to go with a rookie.
World Cup bid gets $46million
1pointsIT'S now official. After all of the talk over the past 10 months, launches, behind-the-scenes manoeuvring and the kowtowing to FIFA head Sepp Blatter, the Federal Government has put its money where its mouth is.
Flamboyant golfers at The Vines in February
1pointsThe Vines will be the place to be from February 19 to 22 when the world's best and most colourful golfers hit town for the Johnnie Walker Classic.Just announced to play are the sultry Columbian Camilo Villegas and colourful Brit Ian Poulter.
The Paddy Olympics
1pointsIt's a bit too late to steal the thunder from Beijing, but this Irishman thinks he has a sports spectacular planned which everyone will want to be a part of.
Batting for Italia
1pointsUnlikely as it may seem, an influx of subcontinental immigrants has made cricket one of Italy's fastest-growing sports.
Don's awesome secret all his own
1pointsWhat was Don Bradman's secret? Physical talent? Mental strength? Or was he in some indefinable way just born special?
Spain's Olympic race row: Don't shoot messenger
1pointsIn case you missed it: Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for a photo while making "slanty-eyed" gestures. Racism furore ensues. Now the journo who broke the story explains himself.
You can't be serious: McEnroe crosses the line
1pointsFormer tennis brat John McEnroe defaulted in his opening match at a Champions Cup tennis event in the US yesterday after an extended argument with the chair umpire ended with the seven-time Grand Slam champion making an obscene gesture toward the ...
Singer was Olympic ringer
1pointsLIN Miaoke, the cute nine-year-old girl whose solo "hymn to the motherland" added a human touch to last Friday's opening ceremony, has since been outed as a fake
Superstar Norman coming to Johnnie Walker Classic
1pointsAustralia's greatest golfer Greg Norman is the first golfing superstar to be announced for the Johnnie Walker Classic golf tournament which tees off Perth at the Vines from 19 to 22 February 2009.
The Sheffield Shield is back with a new sponsor
1pointsAfter almost a decade of crass corporate marketing, the Sheffield Shield has reverted to it's original name.
AFL - SuperCoach/Dream team review of Rnd 14a
1pointsA look at the first half of the Split round 14 of AFL from a Dream Team/SuperCoach/Fantasy Football point of view.
AFL: Buddy getting no love from the umps?
1pointsMark Stevens has written an interest piece in the Herald Sun paper today about the discrepency of For and Frees Against for Buddy Franklin but he doesn’t look at the reasons. This article tries to look at that and see if it is fair or foul
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