National News
19 Nov 09 | AUSTRALIAN whistle-blower Stu Dickinson has received a stunning dressing down from IRB referees' boss Paddy O'Brien following his performance in the All Blacks Test against Italy last Saturday.
19 Nov 09 | Other than its breathtaking $108.8 million cash grab, the most revealing part of the Australian Olympic Committee's 229-page, high-performance plan, submitted to the Crawford review of government ...
19 Nov 09 | NRL chief executive David Gallop, Olympic champion aerials skier Alisa Camplin, former hurdler Kyle Vander-kuyp, Olympic hockey player Sally Carbon and former Australian netball captain Liz Ellis have been told by the Crawford review panel of experts they do not have the skills to head the Australian Sports Commission.
19 Nov 09 | IN A landmark case for punters, the controversial betting exchange Betfair claims it is suffering a ''discriminatory burden of a protectionist kind'' in the form of a 1.5 per cent turnover tax imposed on it by Racing NSW. What's more, it's contrary to the section of the Australian Constitution that enshrines free trade between the states, it alleges.
19 Nov 09 | NOTHING to see here, folks. Particularly for those hoping to see signs the West Indies would offer more than meek resistance this summer.Dismissed for 271 against Queensland yesterday, the Windies ...
19 Nov 09 | STUART CLARK, Test incumbent, wily seamer going mano-a-mano battle with Doug Bollinger for a place in the Australian squad, sauntered back to his mark during a probing two-wicket spell as shadows ...
19 Nov 09 | DESPITE all the calls for change following Australia's Ashes defeat, and a groundswell of support for Jason Krejza, the squad for the summer's first Test against the West Indies is expected to ...
19 Nov 09 | A REPLACEMENT for Chris Gayle is being sought as the West Indies deal with an opening batting crisis after their captain was forced home to be with his sick mother.One week before the first Test ...
19 Nov 09 | Australia needs to spice up its pitches. Nothing is more tedious than a slow game played on a pasty-faced strip that permits batsmen to step onto the front peg without putting their teeth in ...
19 Nov 09 | INDIA isn't the only nation losing its passion for the traditional form of the game.
18 Nov 09 | A Federal Court challenge by former bookmaker and Sydney Turf Club chairman Bruce McHugh, who wants artificially inseminated thoroughbreds to be able to race in Australia, will not be heard before ...
18 Nov 09 | A CASE that will determine the future of punting on the sport of kings in NSW begins on the 18th floor of the Federal Court building in Sydney today. The outcome has ramifications for the funding of racing across Australia as online gambling continues to grow and and the behaviour of punters changes.
18 Nov 09 | THE goose step? The miracle no-look pass? It will be well worth the price of admission if Wallabies great David Campese can impart those skills on the battling Parramatta Rugby Club, whose players began pre-season training last night.
18 Nov 09 | Michael Cockerill: Theoretically, with their country a fully fledged member of the Asian confederation, Australians should have been supporting Bahrain in last weekend's World Cup play-off against the champions of Oceania, New Zealand. Truth is, they weren't.
18 Nov 09 | BY HIS report's admission, David Crawford is no big fan of archery, but yesterday the Sydney lawyer and company director took aim and let fly at one of the nation's biggest targets. Shooting for ...
18 Nov 09 | The Herald ’s Richard Hinds argues that the Crawford Report has got it right on the future of sport. It remains to be seen if the Crawford Report will be successful in its laudable intentions: ...
18 Nov 09 | The Herald ’s Jacquelin Magnay argues that the Crawford Report hasn't got it right on the future of sport. If I didn't know better, I would think after reading the Crawford Report that its panel ...
18 Nov 09 | THE long-awaited Crawford report into sport says Australia has to stop being an international over-achiever and learn to be satisfied with a ''realistic'' top 10 Olympic result.
18 Nov 09 | ON yet another day when West Indies cricket was accused of being behind the times, Australian-born Caribbean representative Brendan Nash was positively talking about catapulting the side light ...
18 Nov 09 | MICHAEL CLARKE couldn't have timed his run better if Bart Cummings was trainer. Having lobbed at the Melbourne Cup with Shane Warne, soaked up the sunshine in Bondi with his glamorous lady friend ...