Today
Smith returns to role of India tormentor at MCG
Steve Smith scored a record 11th century against the nation on Friday, driving Australia to an imposing 7-454 at lunch on day two of the fourth Test.
- Ian Ransom
- Opinion
- Australian Open
TV nostalgia be damned. Australian tennis has a winning game
Today there are more fans, both on-site and online, engaging with the sport than ever before.
- Tracey Holmes
Yesterday
Teenager Sam Konstas steals the show at the MCG
The exciting teenage debutant has laid the platform for Australia to take early control of the Boxing Day Test against India.
- Oliver Caffrey
Reigning overall winner Alive retires from Sydney to Hobart
The 66-footer retired off Wollongong with engine issues around 4pm on the first day of racing, with Master Lock Comanche in a comfortable lead.
- Jasper Bruce
Heatwave gives Pat Cummins pause for thought before Boxing Day Test
The temperature is forecast to reach 39 degrees on Thursday in Melbourne when Australia takes on India.
- Roger Vaughan
This Month
‘Worst forecast ever’: Sydney-Hobart set for broken boats, fast time
Reigning line honours skipper Christian Beck says “the odds of boat damage are very high” in this year’s blue water classic.
- Jasper Bruce
Watch Tiger Woods’ 15-year-old son hit his first hole-in-one
“It was a perfect seven-iron,” Charlie Woods told the Golf Channel. “It was awesome. I didn’t think it went in … until I go up there and see it.”
- Reuters
Meet the Aussies taking cricket to the home of Moneyball
Home runs and hot dogs aren’t normally associated with cricket but a small group of Australians are trying to make America fall in love with the sport.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Australia
NRL stars to make thousands under new global agreement
Players such as James Tedesco and Nathan Cleary could add to their earnings under a deal between the RLPA and athletes’ representation firm OneTeam.
- Zoe Samios
The young sprint star on track to join Aussie sport’s big earners
The highest-earning Australian sports stars usually play tennis, golf or basketball. Teenage sprint sensation Gout Gout may be able to change all that.
- Zoe Samios
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Peter V’landys bogged down in a multibillion-dollar property play
The influential CEO of Racing NSW is staring down allegations aired confidentially by purported whistleblowers to a parliamentary inquiry.
- Mark Di Stefano
The NRL goes down a fourth CFO in four years
The rugby league keeps chewing up and spitting out finance chiefs.
- Mark Di Stefano
Bledisloe win every two years: Waugh’s lofty plan for Rugby Australia
The governing body wants to win the British and Irish Lions tour, Olympic medals and the Bledisloe Cup every two years under an ambitious new four-year strategy.
- Zoe Samios
The world’s next Usain Bolt could be this Queensland teen
Gout Gout is just 16 but runs in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprints against athletes who have years on him. He’s already faster than some of the world’s best.
- Zoe Samios
Dominican slugger lands $1.2b record sports deal
Superstar Juan Soto made history after agreeing to the contract – the largest ever in professional sports – with the New York Mets, according to media reports.
- Ronald Blum
Resurgent Australia level series with thumping Test win
From Mitchell Starc’s first ball wicket to another soaring century by Travis Head, Australia dominated India in the second Test in Adelaide.
- Oliver Caffrey
Pimm’s to rival Wimbledon: Why Adelaide is the new hot cricket ticket
On the Australian cricket calendar, one Test match stands out as the destination event that interstate fans and business executives flock to.
- James Hall and Simon Evans
PNG allocates $150m for NRL team by 2028
About $A37.5 million will be provided by the national government, half of which will be allocated to grassroots and community.
- Zoe Samios
Todd Greenberg to be named Cricket Australia CEO
The former NRL chief executive is expected to be revealed as cricket’s new boss later this week.
- Zoe Samios
PM chooses journalists over cricket elite
Albo made the photoshoot and the game, but not the sold-out function, where the list of dignitaries sending their apologies was long.
- Myriam Robin
Wallabies fall just short in Dublin but set up absorbing Lions tour
Australia came very close to beating world No.2 Ireland and showed that they will at least be entertaining in the upcoming tour by the British and Irish Lions.
- Ian Chadband
November
The numbers that don’t add up for Australian cricket
Out of a humiliating Test loss comes a national focus on how to fix the sport’s biggest challenge.
- Zoe Samios
Grand prix has cost Victoria nearly $700m in the last decade
This year’s grand prix held at Melbourne’s Albert Park enjoyed a record attendance but cost a record $102.3 million to run.
- Gus McCubbing and Zoe Samios
‘Messy stuff is over’: LIV Golf dumps Greg Norman
The Great White Shark will be replaced by Scott O’Neil, who is CEO of Merlin Entertainments in the UK and former president of the NBA’s New York Knicks.
- James Corrigan
How Longmire called time on Sydney Swans
Over lunch of salmon and white beans, the coach told the club chairman and CEO he was ending his tenure early. His legacy goes far beyond four grand final defeats.
- Zoe Samios