National News
06 Oct 09 | NEW DELHI: Nathan Bracken's withdrawal from the NSW Champions League team with a knee injury has presented a golden opportunity to Simon Keen.''For the last week my head's been spinning and it's ...
06 Oct 09 | JOHANNESBURG: Dwayne Bravo is adamant he speaks on behalf of the West Indies' star players. ''We are all going to make ourselves available, that is definite,'' he told the Herald from his home ...
06 Oct 09 | England cricket star Andrew Flintoff and football legend Gary Lineker dove for cover when Taliban insurgents attacked a British military base in Afghanistan, they were quoted as saying Monday.The ...
05 Oct 09 | With a wink and a smile, Casey Stoner showed he was back in business after finishing second in Sunday's Portuguese GP.The 2007 Moto GP world champion made a superb return to the track after ...
05 Oct 09 | JOCKEY Michael Rodd has made Caulfield Guineas day his own in the past two years and he is confident history will repeat when he returns to the track on Saturday.Rodd is out to back up last year's ...
05 Oct 09 | A YEAR ago, Speed Gifted was treading water in England, competing in low-grade races, winning twice from eight starts and earning just $45,000 in prizemoney.After carving through the rain at ...
05 Oct 09 | A WINNING double at Flemington on Saturday has Hugh Bowman primed to continue the charge at Caulfield next Saturday. Bowman takes over the ride on the Cox Plate-bound Vision And Power in the ...
05 Oct 09 | Blink and it will be over before you know it. The Sydney spring carnival is done and dusted, now for Melbourne. The cups, the sprinters, the Cox Plate - racing's thoroughbred championship in the ...
05 Oct 09 | Rock Kingdom represented not only a fine training performance by Gai Waterhouse in taking out the Epsom Handicap at Randwick on Saturday but also a savage form reversal.
05 Oct 09 | STEPHANIE GILMORE left the dark and stormy waters of Dee Why and declared: ''Game on.''
05 Oct 09 | NEW ZEALAND Breakers coach Andrej Lemanis will concentrate on stoking up the stuttering offence of the NBL's competition favourites after successive losses on the road against Melbourne and Adelaide. After torching Cairns with a scintillating opening-round three-point barrage, the Breakers shot poorly in both legs of their opening road trip.
05 Oct 09 | JOHANNESBURG: Brett Lee thinks Australia's unprecedented workload could actually help him get back in the Test team, which seems just as big a challenge as his more distant ambition of becoming ...
05 Oct 09 | JOHANNESBURG: The Champions Trophy is about to make a splash in Oceania. For what has been a derided tournament over the years, a final between Australia and New Zealand in Centurion provides an unexpected new chapter between the trans-Tasman rivals.
05 Oct 09 | VERONA, New York: Australia's Rod Pampling was equal third just one shot off the pace after Saturday's third round of the PGA Turning Stone Resort Championship.
05 Oct 09 | SUZUKA: Sebastian Vettel has kept alive his bid for this year's formula one championship by winning the Japanese Grand Prix with an impeccable drive from pole position.
05 Oct 09 | AUSTRALIAN heavyweight champion John Hopoate's career is at the crossroads after his shock knockout loss to veteran southpaw Colin Wilson in Hamilton.
05 Oct 09 | LONDON: Roy Keane launched a furious rant at reporters after Ipswich's 2-1 defeat at Barnsley as the pressure of his side's struggle in the Championship began to take its toll.Keane's team have ...
05 Oct 09 | MANCHESTER: Alex Ferguson launched an extraordinary attack on referee Alan Wiley after Manchester United's 2-2 draw with Sunderland, claiming he wasn't fit enough to officiate at the highest level.
05 Oct 09 | SYDNEY ROVERS chairman Ian Rowden believes the sky's the limit for the A-League's newest franchise, promising would-be fans they'll have a ''world-class'' club to support by the time the team ...
05 Oct 09 | CENTRAL Coast Mariners boss Lawrie McKinna believes the best way to unsettle Sydney FC is to frustrate them at every turn - and that's exactly what he'll instruct his players to do this ...