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Starc to contest high jump at world champs
18 Apr 2013Rising star Brandon Starc will give Australia a presence in the men’s high jump at a major athletics championships for the first time in 13 years after breaking into the team for the world titles in Moscow in August. The younger brother of Test cricketer Mitchell Starc won his first national title on Saturday, adding [...]
Powell set to make a mark at Stawell Gift
28 Mar 2013Fully recovered from the groin injury which cruelled his London Olympic campaign, Jamaican sprint great Asafa Powell is ready to make history at the Stawell Gift. The former 100m world record holder is arguably the biggest name to grace the famous handicap race in its 131-year history. He will start from the scratch mark, one [...]
Australian sport in disarray
12 Mar 2013Never mind boys behaving badly. Right now, at the pointy end of Australian sport, it seems we’ve gone well beyond that. Seen in isolation, the dumping of vice-captain Shane Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja from the third Test team for failing to submit their homework in time seems more worthy of detention [...]
O'Connor to five-eighth for Rebels
6 Mar 2013Wallaby star James O’Connor will shoulder a double dose of responsibility for the Melbourne Rebels in Friday night’s Super Rugby clash with Queensland. With regular skipper Gareth Delve missing a second straight match due to a shoulder problem, the 22-year-old O’Connor will again captain the side. And this time he will be doing it from [...]
Bombers commission independent review
28 Feb 2013Essendon have commissioned an independent review into “irregular practices” at the AFL club, with chairman David Evans planning to go public with its findings. The full external review of the club’s governance, processes and supervision will be headed by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski. It will run concurrently with an Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) [...]
Hooker relishing change of scene
19 Feb 2013The disappointment of the London Olympics made a couple of things crystal clear for Australia’s greatest pole vaulter Steve Hooker. To give himself a chance of pushing on to the 2016 Games in Rio, he had to find a way to stay fit. And he had to sort out his run-up. In short, he needed [...]
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