1:00 AM AEDT | Critics have labelled them old, slow and in desperate need of new blood, but Sydney coach Paul Roos has stood by his decision to recruit only three young players in the national draft.
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY FC's emerging talent is poised to make a charge for selection as coach John Kosmina takes a closer look at his all-conquering youth team to find solutions to an inconsistent A-League campaign.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE most difficult thing for Rob Beveridge to hear was not that his basketball team was on life support and not responding, but the plea from his wife Sue Ellen that the announcement meant it was over. It was time he came home and play full-time husband and father again.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE South African and Australian teams are well matched. Indeed they have become almost mirror images, writes Peter Roebuck.
1:00 AM AEDT | PROFESSIONAL golfers talk almost reverently of entering "the zone". Some never get there, a few do and Tiger Woods often does.
1:00 AM AEDT | Untapped two-year-old Phenomenal Lass has already beaten the odds to get to the racetrack but trainer Paul Murray and owner George Holz aren't resting on their laurels just yet. Phenomenal Lass, a...
1:00 AM AEDT | GAI WATERHOUSE'S mother, Valerie Smith, passed away on Wednesday morning. The wife of the late training legend Tommy Smith was 92.
"I don't really know how to describe life without one...
1:00 AM AEDT | SPORTINGBET Australia punters have no doubt Stuart Appleby can atone for a disappointing Australian Masters by winning this weekend's Australian PGA at Coolum with one punter on him to win almost $400,000.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE decision not to strip Melbourne Cup runner-up Bauer's connections of their $835,000 prizemoney has been largely embraced by the racing community.
1:00 AM AEDT | EXPECT several new additions to the Channel Nine and ABC commentary boxes this summer. Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne will join Nine's team over the coming weeks on short-term deals. Warne will ca...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Gai Waterhouse stable is confident a change in gear can help Power Personified in the Wests Ashfield Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday. The two-year-old was beaten as a red-hot favourite on debut a...
1:00 AM AEDT | JONO BRAUER had surgery on his right knee more than three years ago. Last January, doctors opened up his left knee and cut out massive amounts of degenerated mucous tissue. The doctors sewed him back up, but shook their heads. Since the pressure on his knees was so great, the pain so extreme, Brauer reluctantly decided to give up his speciality discipline, the slalom.
1:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA'S 2012 Olympic Games medal hopes are at dire risk because of funding levels that pale in comparison with a $571 million commitment yesterday by the British Government to its top athletes.
1:00 AM AEDT | A LAST-second equaliser is invariably greeted by scenes of mass jubilation, but when Sasho Petrovski nudged home at the death to make it 2-2 against Perth Glory last week, his Mariners teammates were ...
1:00 AM AEDT | I t wasn't all bad news for Dylan Macallister in Norway. Some of it was better than good.
In Bergen, he met Maria, his future wife. Early next month they'll marry in Manly. This week, on h...
1:00 AM AEDT | Chris Munce opens up about his jail term giving him a new-found perspective on life, writes Craig Young.
1:00 AM AEDT | Malcolm Speed was burnt in effigy three times and described by The Hindustan Times as 'one of the most disliked men in India'. He survived the wrath of the Indians, only to be sacked over the Zimbabwe issue. In a world exclusive, the former ICC chief talks to Alex Brown about politics, Zimbabwe and the BCCI.
1:00 AM AEDT | AFTER two days of mayhem at Hobart's Bellerive Oval - on which 28 wickets had fallen - normal service was resumed yesterday.
Unfortunately for the NSW side, normal service this season means a t...
1:00 AM AEDT | Comment: I CAN'T wait to get to Caulfield races tomorrow. I've just got off the phone to my jockey mate and we are going to make one hell of a killing on the punt, writes Andrew Eddy.
1:00 AM AEDT | AUSTRALIA'S professional cricketers, rugby league and union players, footballers and netballers have told the Federal Government they can play a leading role in promoting the responsible use of alcohol.