Star NBL import could play for Australia
If Perth star Bryce Cotton has his Australian citizenship approved, you can bet that Boomers coach Brian Goorjian will take him to the Olympics.
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Jackson joins the best of the best
There’s not much Lauren Jackson didn’t achieve in her legendary basketball career, but Hall of Fame recongition is a huge honour
Bogut’s massive call on playing future
A stellar career in Australia and the NBA, which included a championship, is over, along with a shot at a fourth Olympics.
Arnold stayed loyal for ‘the kids’
A long-awaited Olyroos camp has reaffirmed coach Graham Arnold’s decision to turn down an offer from FC Seoul.
Goorjian: We need Ben Simmons to win a medal
Aussie NBA star Ben Simmons is yet to play for the Boomers at a World Cup or Olympics, but new coach Brian Goorjian would like to change that.
Goorjian to get Boomers gig
Brian Goorjian is set to take over from Brett Brown and become Boomers coach again and take them to the Tokyo Olympics
Look who the Boomers are zoning in on
Officially, the race to replace Brett Brown as Boomers coach is wide open. But Basketball Australia reportedly has a preferred candidate that already has plenty of international experience.
Aussie ace with ‘lucky arm’ targets MLB dream
At 78KG wringing wet, Queensland pitcher Kai-Noa Wynyard, 18, cuts a less-than-imposing figure on the mound but with a fastball nudging 150km/h it is no wonder the Texas Rangers plucked the Redcliffe Padres junior.
Dealing Aces: Aussie Red Sox prospect eyes ABL redemption
MELBOURNE pitcher and Boston Red Sox prospect Daniel McGrath knows the only way to make up for missing a championship is to help the Aces defend their Australian Baseball League crown.
Barber among five Aussies given ticket to Tokyo
Reigning javelin World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber says the Olympics feel “real again” after having her selection, with four other athletes, locked in for Tokyo 2021.
Hockeyroos seal Olympic dream
After disappointment against New Zealand in the Oceania Cup, the Hockeyroos had to win their two-game Olympic qualifier series against Russia to qualify. They backed up a 4-2 win with a 5-0 demolition to book their Tokyo ticket.
Hockeyroo back for SA in new-look AHL series in Adelaide
BOTH the Suns and Hotshots SA State hockey teams start their AHL campaigns in Adelaide on Sunday with big clashes against Western Australia.
Aussie softballer makes world take notice
HIGH-QUALITY shortstops are worth their place in any team if their defence is good enough. If they can hit, that’s a bonus. And if they can do both, they are like gold. Meet Clare Warwick.
Sally Fitz over the moon for Margies Pro defence
DEFENDING Margaret River Pro champion Sally Fitzgibbons has pain but is no longer seriously impeded by a foot injury which has confined her to a moon boot out of the water for three weeks.
Jessica Fox on top of the world
DUAL Olympian Jessica Fox is back on top of the world with an international award acknowledging her status as one of her sports leading paddlers
Practice makes perfect for rising surf star
LAST year’s world tour rookie of the year Connor O’Leary subscribes to the theory that practice makes perfect.
The handshake that made history
IT was over in a matter of seconds, but the impact of the historic moment at the Olympic opening ceremony is being called “unprecedented”.
Pearson eyeing off extra event at Games
SALLY Pearson will throw her hat into the ring for the chance to race a second event at the Commonwealth Games if Australia opts to field a relay team on the Gold Coast.
Wilson’s special motivation after injury
FOR surfer Julian Wilson pink is the colour of victory, the hue reminding him how hard his mum Nola fought in her battle to overcome beast cancer — twice.
‘Sleeping with the enemy’: Inside Olympic village
NORTH Korean athletes have arrived in the South where they’ll be bunking with their “enemy” for the next month at an athletes’ village that has already set a condom record.
US invasion threatens local hopes at Sydney Pro
AUSTRALIA is in danger of losing one of the first surfing titles of 2018 at Manly next month with the US sending a world-class team down under for the Sydney Surf Pro.
Aussie sailing cousins foil Olympic champs
Australian duo Jason Waterhouse and Lisa Darmanin have taken a small measure of revenge against the team that beat them for gold at the Rio Olympics with victory in Miami.
Surf’s up for teen Kobie Enright
Kobie Enright continues to prove she has the credentials to be one of the brightest new talents in the women’s surf ranks with the teenager winning one of the first major events of the year on Sunday.
Wright, Pearson up for Laureus awards
SURFER Tyler Wright’s return from a potentially season-ending knee injury to win a second world crown and Sally Pearson’s comeback to win another world title has seen the pair nominated for prestigious Laureus world sports awards.
Macy ready for world surf title defence
A YEAR ago Macy Callaghan was on top of the world and the owner of a small piece of Australian sporting history as out first world champion of 2017. Now she’s on the hunt for a second.
How does the AOC vote work?
THE Australian Olympic Committee will elect a president, vice president and board on Saturday morning using an exhaustive voting system. HERE’S HOW
Paralympic Games: That’s a wrap
IT was the second biggest sporting event in 2016 behind the Olympics. But this time Australia cracked the top five. Our wrap of the Paralympic Games.
Team USA’s arrogant Boomers sledge
AUSTRALIA was just one country that gave Team USA a run for its money at Rio 2016 but after a blowout in the gold medal game, an American heavyweight let loose.
Mills will not give up on dream
PATTY Mills is not content with putting Australian basketball back on the map because his “dream big” mindset extends to a fourth Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.
Olympic tweet China deleted
CHINA could not help but have a dig at its own national team, before realising it took a step too far. It was too late.
Amazing Rio Olympic medal tally fact
SOMETHING is wrong with this Rio Olympic medal tally, and it’s got nothing to do with Australia being nowhere near the top.
Tears flow as Edmondson meets sponsor child
IT’S the first time Annette Edmondson was happy to let the tears flow – and it had nothing to do with competition as she finally met her Brazilian sponsor child of 10 years.
Champions who stole our hearts in Rio
WHO was the champion who stole your heart in Rio – Michael Phelps for winning five golds or the boy who beat him for winning one? Robert Craddock looks at the stars of Rio.
Australian team proves nice guys finish last
Thank goodness for Chloe Esposito. Just what the dickens is going on with our team? The BMX fiasco summed up an underwhelming Olympics for Australia, writes Mike Colman.
40-year-old father’s dream Olympic debut
SOME people jump out of planes when they turn 40. Some splash out on a Porsche, or a couple of tickets to Bali. Scott Westcott got himself to an Olympic Games.
Gaze: Bronze can ease Boomers’ mental anguish
FIVE-TIME Olympian Andrew Gaze says only a bronze medal for Australia’s Boomers will ease the mental anguish suffered from the semi-final capitulation to Serbia.
Aussie stars primed for Tokyo 2020 glory
RIO is so last Olympics. Everyone is talking Tokyo these days. They are only 1433 days away, after all.If you’re Australian, the 2020 Games can’t come quick enough.
No Rio spot but a Boomers rock
YOU could forgive Brad Newley for feeling bitter watching the Boomers’ historic surge to the semi-finals at the Rio Olympics.
Jordan, Johnson and the making of a dream
THE US Dream Team assembled the greatest talent in sporting history. It had the egos of a heavyweight title fight, the bickering of a daytime soap opera and the partying of the Rio Carnival.
‘Dream Team like Playstation gone crazy’
A BOOMERS legend who played four Olympics has ranked and rated every USA line-up from the Dream Team onwards, sharing some epic memories of facing the superstars.
Delly’s perfect smackdown for NBA haters
IN the NBA, he’s known as the Aussie scrapper who has to play dirty to make a living. But fresh off a $39 million contract, Matthew Dellavedova has delivered a perfect serve.
What we’re missing about the Boomers
THE hallmark of the 2016 Boomers has nothing to do with old-fashioned Aussie values. There’s something else we should be beating our chests about.
Boomers’ semi-final opponent decided
THE Boomers’ Olympic semi-final opponent has just been decided, with Australia to face a rival they beat in the group stage for a shot at the gold medal game.
Tokyo training began four months before Rio
THE Australian sailing team’s successful Rio campaign isn’t even over and they’ve already begun training in Tokyo for the 2020 games. In fact, it began four months ago.
Rio Boomers’ remarkable slice of history
THE Boomers are one win away from a historic Olympics gold medal game and they’ve already achieved an unprecedented feat for Aussie basketball.
Kings of the court and BMX bandits
A roundup of what went down on day 12 in Rio: The Boomers ease in to the semi-finals, our BMX men and women fire and Usain Bolt laughs all the way to the 200m final …
Awesome Boomers cruise into semis
THE Boomers have guaranteed themselves a shot at a medal in Rio, defeating Lithuania in one of their greatest performances to storm into the semi-finals.
Why our Boomers are the best ‘team’ in Rio
TEAM USA has the megastars but Australia’s Boomers have their own NBA talent and in at least one major area, they’re outdoing every Olympic rival – including the Americans.
Patty Mills’ game-changing Boomers moment
BEFORE the Olympics, the Boomers were talking goals. Just when they thought they’d settled on what was realistic, Patty Mills stood up and changed everything.
Australia’s worst medal haul in 28 years
THE Australian Olympic team are desperate to avoid a national disaster – aware that they are perilously close to the worst medal haul in 28-years dating back to Seoul.
Rio’s worrying ‘passport swap’ trend
A CONCERNING trend has seen nations shell out millions for Olympic success — and it threatens to destroy what the Games are about.
Billion dollar battleground in Rio
A BILLION dollar battle is being waged behind the scenes in Rio that could change the way the Games are run.
Brennan flagged for fairytale finish
IF a gold medal wasn’t a fairytale finish for Kim Brennan, carrying the Australian flag at the closing ceremony of the Rio Games would surely be the ultimate last hurrah.
Boomers must save Australia from 32-year low
THE Boomers aren’t just trying to win Australia’s first Olympic men’s basketball medal at Rio 2016 – they’re trying to save us from a disaster not seen since 1984.
Rio road ends for shellshocked Opals
AUSTRALIA’S Opals have wasted an Olympic campaign full of potential, rocked by bizarre refereeing and a Serbian team hellbent on creating their own history.
Old foe: Boomers Olympic finals draw decided
AUSTRALIA’S opponent for the Rio Olympics basketball quarter-finals and their path to a potential gold medal game v Team USA has been revealed.
Heartbreak for Stingers in penalty shootout
THE Stingers rushed to absolve Bronwen Knox of blame after the skipper’s missed penalty saw Australia bundled out of Olympic medal contention for the first time ever in women’s water polo.
Hockey Australia warns against funding cuts
HOCKEY Australia bosses have warned a savage cut to their $5 million funding under the Winning Edge program would severely impact their ability to rebound from a disastrous Olympic campaign.
Meares bows out, Samuel goes long
A roundup of what went down on day 10 in Rio: Anna Meares bids farewell to the Olympics, Dani Samuel goes long in the discus and the Hockyroos and Stingers crash out …
Hockeyroo announces shock retirement
THE Hockeyroos’ meek departure from the Olympic Games just 16 hours after the Kookaburras was heightened by the shock retirement of their skipper.
Bairstow injured, Boomers down Venezuela
IT was harder work than necessary but the Boomers will enter the men’s basketball finals with confidence after securing a 81-56 victory over feisty Venezuela.
Rio failure set to scar Kookaburras
DID the Kookaburras spend so much time looking back they forgot to look properly forward? Robert Craddock looks at our men’s hockey team and why they couldn’t put it together in Rio.
Aussie swimmers in Rio ‘better than London’
KIEREN Perkins looks at where it went right for Australia in the pool, where it went wrong, and why Rio’s performance was ‘way better than London’.
‘The greatest choke in Olympic history’
CATE Campbell has been scathing in her own assessment of her performance in Rio but bounced back to help the medley relay team win silver with her final swim. WATCH THE VIDEO
Lapierre fails to fire as hand costs US star gold
HE finished 10th but long-jumper Fabrice Lapierre is convinced he threw the gold medal away, as Henry Frayne performed better but still missed the medals.
Sevens squad warned over night on the drink
THE Australian men’s sevens team have been given a warning about behaving responsibly after members of the squad had a boozy night in Rio.
Super Bowl champion lifts rugby profile in USA
THE USA have long been regarded as the sleeping giant of world rugby and coach Mike Friday thinks he may have found an alarm clock in a man by the name of Nate Ebner.
‘Classless’ US star slammed
IT’S not often America turns on one of its own athletes in the middle of an Olympic Gamesbut this “coward” is copping it.
Matildas coach reacts to Brazilian penalty ploy
AFTER 120 minutes of a gripping Olympic quarter-final, it was a dodgy tactic and a passive referee that helped decide Australia’s bitter exit against Brazil.
Cate’s redemption, Matildas’ heartbreak
A roundup of what went down on day 7 in Rio: Cate Campbell returns to form, agony for the Matildas, Dane Bird-Smith takes race walking bronze — then sees his dad hauled off by the cops …
NBA clubs eyeing Boomers big man
NBA clubs are circling veteran Boomer David Anderson as his brilliant cameos for Australia jeopardise his imminent move to NBL club Melbourne United.
Sun Yang catches cold, a billion people sneeze
China’s Olympic hero Sun Yang dived into the water for the heat of the 1500m freestyle as world record holder and defending champion, he left the pool as a failed qualifier.
What really cost the Matildas
THE Matildas’ quarter-final loss to Brazil at Rio 2016 was heartbreaking but our national women’s side shouldn’t have been there in the first place, writes David Davutovic.
‘Insane’ opening to Rio athletics
THIS Ethiopian runner was immediately called out by a rival after destroying one of the “dirtiest records in track history”.
Serbian ambush questions Dream Team status
AMERICA’S NBA stars couldn’t be further from the Dream Team status of past Olympic campaigns after dodging a bullet against Serbia in Rio to claim a 94-91 victory.
‘Hard as hell’: Boomers warning to rivals
AFTER disposing of China, the Australian Boomers had a message for rivals who want join Team USA in whingeing about their physicality at the Rio Olympics.
Why Hayne could never live this dream
YOU can’t tell Fiji’s story without touching on the player who became its biggest star for a few short weeks before the Games.
Boomers’ insane stats v USA
AUSTRALIA was not meant to get close. Instead, the Boomers pushed USA to the brink. Here are some of the amazing stats from the game.
Boomers desperate for another crack at USA
THE most glorious night Australian basketball can remember is not a “what-if?’ moment, but a delicious entree to historic Olympic achievement.
‘Hopefully it will put basketball on the map’
VETERAN David Anderson believes the Boomers’ fighting loss to the US can put basketball on the map in Australia.
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