Sport
Facebook followers could get Super League clubs relegated. What if the NRL did the same?
The Super League is using the number of social media followers to help determine which English clubs are included. These would be the NRL clubs in trouble if the same measure was applied here.
- by Adrian Proszenko
Haaland and Mbappe star as Man City, PSG win big in Champions League
- by Lori Ewing and Fernando Kallas
NRL
Opinion
NRL 2023
Wests Tigers financial shortfall covered for now … but that may not always be the case
The NRL joint venture club will ride out a series of payouts that hit the 2023 bottom line.
- by Roy Masters
‘I had some tough talks’: Social media scandal a lesson for Holmes
Presented to the media for the first time since a controversial and costly online post, the first question posed to the Kangaroos star was: “what was in the bag?”
- by Adrian Proszenko
Updated
NRL player movements
Knights join Eels in hunt for Addo-Carr as Dragons and Tigers watch with interest
- by Michael Chammas, Adrian Proszenko and Adam Pengilly
Exclusive
NRL 2023
‘It spread to my brain, it was serious’: Young relives health ordeal
- by Adrian Proszenko
Insight & Analysis
The sad truth: Why this World Cup is a fan-free zone
It’s not just that there are so few Westerners; there are few anybodies. The ICC is displeased about half-empty stadiums, but won’t say so publicly.
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
Why mystery surrounds Papenhuyzen link to Storm’s rivals
The Melbourne star has been secretly floated to at least one other club as a potential recruit, but the Storm say he is going nowhere.
Danny Weidler
Sport columnist
Straight bat outta Compton: Why LA gang members are embracing the gentleman’s game
Cricket returns to the Olympics in Los Angeles with millions invested in the sport, more to be made, and an American history that stretches from the founding fathers to LA gangbangers.
Dan Walsh
Sports Reporter
Rugby Union
Cricket
Soccer
Opinion
Matildas
Swede nothings: Gustavsson coy on Matildas future with US job still vacant
The coach talked and talked until there was nothing left to say. Except, perhaps, what everybody really wanted to know: will he still be around for the Olympics?
- by Emma Kemp
Haaland and Mbappe star as Man City, PSG win big in Champions League
A late double for Erling Haaland ensured the holders avoided a slip-up against Swiss club Young Boys but there were no such issues for the French giants, who hosted AC Milan.
- by Lori Ewing and Fernando Kallas
THE ENGLISH VIEW
EPL
Tottenham are no longer ‘Spursy’ under Ange Postecoglou – they are the real deal
- by Jason Burt and Kieran Crichard
AFL
AFL Briefing
AFL 2023
Spurred towards victory? Hawks coach Mitchell to spend time at Tottenham
- by Peter Ryan
Analysis
Trading and drafting
Only two As: Who dominated the AFL’s swap-fest, and who were the big losers?
- by Peter Ryan and Marc McGowan
Basketball
Even NBA champions have to ask for permission. The story behind Ian Clark’s special number
Ian Clark is an NBA title winner but he still paid his respects to Lanard Copeland by asking for permission to wear the number 21 jersey for Melbourne United this NBL season.
- by Roy Ward
Australia’s $64m man: Basketballer signs bumper NBA deal
Australian basketballer Josh Green has reaped a major pay day as he aims to help the Dallas Mavericks claim an NBA championship.
- by Jon Pierik
Racing
Also in Sport
McKeown hits World Cup jackpot after record-breaking heroics
Three triumphs, two world records and the series champion crown mean it’s been a highly lucrative weekend in Budapest for the Australian swimmer.
- by Ian Chadband
Updated
MotoGP
MotoGP called off amid ‘dangerous’ conditions at Phillip Island
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez agreed with organisers’ decision to call off MotoGP racing but local Jack Miller thought racing should at least have been attempted, despite nine riders crashing out of the Moto2 race before it was halted after nine laps.
- by Matthew Clayton