26/07/2008 | GEELONG withstood everything Hawthorn could throw at them to win a hard-fought slog by 11 points at the MCG last night.
As a contest, it was a game worth waiting 17 rounds for. So high was the pre...
26/07/2008 | Tonight, CUA Stadium, 7.30. What the Panthers say Their tough draw over the closing rounds makes a win here vital. "Because of the run we've got coming in - we've got Manly twice, we...
26/07/2008 | THE prosperous career of Simon Woolford, a former representative hooker and club captain, may end without even a fizzle, let alone a firework, after he admitted yesterday that he desperately needed to...
26/07/2008 | RIVAL coaches yesterday backed Nathan Brown's outspoken attack on Melbourne's controversial wrestling tactics as the NRL announced the St George Illawarra mentor would not be fined for suggest...
26/07/2008 | THE last place former Hawthorn great Robert DiPierdomenico expected to be coaching an AFL team was in the Middle East - in the middle of summer. Especially not with footy legend Ron Barassi at his sid...
26/07/2008 | AS ONE of the game's leading defenders, Craig Bolton knows how to stop an opponent and he believes Barry Hall must be wary of Adelaide niggling him tonight at the SCG.
While Crows coach Neil C...
26/07/2008 | Craig Bolton and Brett Kirk have lived the dream together, writes Michael Cowley.
26/07/2008 | Regardless of the air quality in Beijing next month, Peter Baquie will not breathe easy. As head doctor of the Melbourne AFL club Hawthorn, Baquie ministers to a team widely tipped to reach this year&...
26/07/2008 | SHE remembers running barefoot in the saltwater, just ankle deep, trying to keep up with the long lopes of her dad.
Benita Johnson grew up learning how to race on the Mackay beach and it was her p...
26/07/2008 | WE ARE close now. After a good hit-out in Melbourne in the 400 metres and 800 metres short-course events last Sunday, I went home, had a good meal with the in-laws, packed my bags and headed to the airport for a midnight flight to Singapore.
26/07/2008 | Parramatta beat the hapless Cowboys in a dour, mistake-riddled match.
26/07/2008 | The Broncos keep their top four hopes alive with a strong win over the Sharks.
26/07/2008 | SINCE its infancy in the 12th century, rugby union has evolved from the "town game" for hundreds of ruffians on England's village greens to a sport for people of 120 nations, if occasional...
26/07/2008 | GRAHAM HENRY knows he is set for quite a fall should his side lose tonight's match in Sydney and has even declared victory in the Bledisloe Cup more important than winning the Tri Nations.
Fac...
26/07/2008 | WALLABIES coach Robbie Deans last night warned his forwards they would not have as comfortable a time at the breakdown in tonight's Bledisloe Cup Test as they did against the big-hitting Springbok...
26/07/2008 | IT'S already 2-0 to Robbie Deans in his coaching duel with Graham Henry. And on both occasions the pair clashed as head coaches - just as tonight - Deans's team was the underdog.
26/07/2008 | The Wallabies haven't had their hands on the Bledisloe Cup since 2002. Greg Growden believes they will take the first big step towards getting it back by winning tonight.
26/07/2008 | THE pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been fined a record $200,000 after its representatives told doctors that a rival company's anti-cholesterol product was associated with kidney problems.
26/07/2008 | A 35-YEAR-OLD US model for developing African-American and Native American businesses is being considered by the Federal Government as an answer to the economic disadvantage of indigenous Australians.
26/07/2008 | KNOWN to practitioners as "the quant" and "the qual", they are the yin and yang of the modern research that political parties use to target election campaigns and hone messages to vote...