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Steve Smith celebrates his century on Friday.

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
When Nick Kyrgios makes his injury comeback playing doubles at the Brisbane International with Serbia’s Novak Djokovic as a warmup to the Australian Open, their combined Instagram accounts will reach close to 20-million followers.

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

Sam Konstas stole the show in front of a bumper crowd, boldly taking it to the megastars of Indian cricket.

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
Master Lock Comanche

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
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This Month

The start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2023.

‘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
Charlie Woods gets a hole-in-one.

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.”

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Australians William Swann and Sagar Sritharan are part of the team trying to put cricket on the map in the United States.

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
NRL players could earn thousands of dollars in additional income under a new international deal.

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
Track and field athletes do not make as much money as other elite sportspeople such as golfers, tennis players, basketballers or baseball players.

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
Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys at inquiry into the potential sale of Rosehill racecourse on August 9.

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
NRL bosses Andrew Abdo and Peter V’Landys.

The NRL goes down a fourth CFO in four years

The rugby league keeps chewing up and spitting out finance chiefs.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh.

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
Gout Gout

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
Big-hitting Juan Soto placed his name next to some of the greatest players in baseball history early on in his career.

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
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Nathan McSweeney and Pat Cummins celebrate Ravichandran Ashwin’s wicket.

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
South Australian Cricket Association chair Will Rayner is preparing for another bumper Adelaide test.

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
Papua New Guinea is a leading contender to land the NRL’s 18th franchise licence.

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
Mitchell Marsh batting during the first Test between Australia and India.

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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks with members of the Prime Minister’s XI and the Indian cricket team on Thursday.

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
Tate McDermott of Australia is tackled by Craig Casey and Josh van der Flier.

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

Steve Smith walks off Perth Stadium after being dismissed for 17 on Monday.

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
Melbourne’s Grand Prix has cost Victorian taxpayers nearly $700 million to run since 2014.

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
Greg Norman with South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas, whose state has hosted the rebel LIV Golf tour.

‘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
John Longmire at his press conference to announce he was quitting as Swans coach, effective immediately.

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

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