Soccer

Valeri favours club over Socceroos

Lee Gaskin 2:54pm Canberra’s Carl Valeri will miss Australia’s friendly with Denmark to help his club’s promotion push to the top tier of Italian football.

Roosters star Leilua arrested

Emma Partridge and Michael Carayannis 2:42pm SYDNEY Roosters' preparations for tonight's game against Canterbury have been thrown into disarray after centre BJ Leilua was arrested on the weekend.

Union

Rebels' cause hurt by trio of injuries

Chris Dutton The Melbourne Rebels are in danger of losing three of their best backs to injury but the ACT Brumbies are refusing to take their opposition lightly ahead of their clash on Friday night.

Union

Unexpected finals berth could be a bonus

Chris Dutton The ACT Brumbies refuse to accept close enough as good enough.

League

Souths shocker enough pain for axed duo

Chris Wilson Raiders enforcer Tom Learoyd-Lahrs says the club's senior leadership group will welcome Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson back into the NRL squad today, claiming that watching Friday night's 36-18 loss to Souths was ''punishment enough''.

League

Raiders need to ruck it up

Chris Wilson While the spotlight has been on Canberra's leaky left-side defence in recent losses, Raiders assistant coach Andrew McFadden believes the team will also need to tighten its ruck defence to combat Robbie Farah's running game in Saturday night's clash with the Wests Tigers at Canberra Stadium.

League

Roos run riot, but coach not impressed

David Polkinghorne The Queanbeyan Kangaroos might be undefeated at the top of the Canberra Raiders Cup ladder and chasing a third straight premiership, but coach Aaron Gorrell wasn't impressed with his team's 60-14 victory over a winless West Belconnen Warriors yesterday.

League

Origin II spot on line for Tamou

Russell Jackson NSW and North Queensland prop James Tamou is facing the prospect of missing State of Origin game two after he was placed on report for a dangerous tackle on Wests Tigers five-eighth Benji Marshall yesterday.

Tennis

Slick Stosur cruises into second round

Darren Walton Samantha Stosur lived up to her star billing to cruise into the second round of the French Open last night with a straight-sets win over erratic Scot Elena Baltacha.

Hockey

UC sends Freeman off with a strong win

Fleta Page University of Canberra farewelled club stalwart Angela Freeman with a 5-0 win over the winless Wests-Valleys in the women's capital league at the National Hockey Centre yesterday.

Soccer

Panthers pounce to stun reigning champs

Fleta Page The previously winless Monaro Panthers have pulled off the upset of the Premier League season with a stunning 2-1 victory over champion Canberra FC at Deakin Stadium yesterday.

Greyhounds

Kibble Crisis beats the odds to take title

David Polkinghorne There was barely a yelp as Kibble Crisis crossed the line to win the National Capital Distance Championships at Canberra Greyhound Racing Club yesterday.

Racing

Move to October will boost Queanbeyan Cup

David Polkinghorne Queanbeyan Racing Club hopes moving its marquee race day to a stand-alone day in the spring will attract bigger crowds and possibly better horses to the country race track.