Rugby league fans’ propensity to always see a glass half-empty has again been graphically illustrated in the fortnight since the Nines World Cup at Parramatta was announced.
“From the liberal Cape Town to the conservative highveld… the one common factor is that the South Africans are a hard race and their rugby players are fearsome physical specimens. A Springbok is a big, big man.
The Brisbane Bullets might be yet to settle on their final squad this NBL season but they are putting together enough performances to deserve in on championship discussion – and centre Matt Hodgson couldn’t be enjoying himself more.
Now that there’s been time for the dust to settle, The Roar’s resident draft nuts Maddy Friend and Josh Elliott have put their heads together to talk through all of the big topics from the 2018 AFL Draft.
Each and every week the football world provides us with a collection of stories, rumours and events that get tongues wagging with both praise and criticism.
Ultimately, the result went pretty much as expected, with Australia’s bowlers ensuring the Test contest was pure, but Australia’s batsmen falling short of the mark.
The semifinals for this season of the Rocket League Gfinity Elite Series were upon us this weekend and the results seemed almost entirely up to Sydney.
A litany of wasted starts by the Australian batsmen was at the heart of their loss to India in the first Test in Adelaide.
I was at a Magic: The Gathering (coming soon to a column near you) event this past weekend, which meant that, coupled with the unfortunate time zone difference, I didn’t get to watch a minute of All-Stars live.
India won the first Test in Adelaide yesterday by 31, but the only reason the baggy greens came so close was the determined tail wagging batting of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood.
The weekend’s FIA prize-giving gala marked the official end of the 2018 racing season, and with it the formal crowning of Mercedes as the Formula One constructors world champion for the fifth year in succession.
When the Gfinity Elite Series esports competition kicked off in June of this year, it was Melbourne who rose to the summit.
In one swift move, Liverpool extinguished this game from the jaws of parity.
Every new season brings with it new players, and these are the young guns you should keep an eye on in the lead-up to the 2019 tournament.
Australia once again find themselves in a situation where they are searching for a new opening batsmen following the failures of white ball specialist Aaron Finch.
As in previous years there have been numerous Australian sport biographies, autobiographies and histories published during the year.
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We went behind the scenes of the Gfinity Australia Elite Series.
Victoria’s Shield clash with Western Australia became all about these two on the final day!
The Aussie skipper has also thrown his support behind out of form quick Mitchell Starc.
The triple century is cricket’s rarefied tier, the area of the stats sheet where mortals dare not tread.
The triple century is cricket’s rarefied tier, the area of the stats sheet where mortals dare not tread.
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