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Giants big step to World Series win
THE San Francisco Giants are poised to win its first World Series title since 1954 after a third defeat of the Texas Rangers for a 3-1 lead.
Kangaroos storm into Four Nations final
AUSTRALIA booked an enticing, yet predictable, Four Nations rugby league final date with New Zealand by thumping England 34-14.
Giants take 2-0 World Series lead
THE San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers 9-0 Thursday night to take a 2-0 game lead in the World Series.
Giants stomp on Lee in Game 1
RON Washington took 37 steps to the mound. The Texas manager grabbed the ball from Cliff Lee, his invincible pitcher, and the fans roared.
Green keen to fight in SA
BOXING world champion Danny Green is considering a February fight in Adelaide.
Haussler gunning for home turf in TDU
AUSSIE star Heinrich Haussler could be on the start line for next year's Tour Down Under with new team Garmin-Cervelo.
Athletes warned of diet supplements
AUSTRALIA'S elite athletes have been warned of risks in taking dietary supplements containing the banned substance methylhexaneamine.
Sally's fully focused on future
SALLY Pearson will delay a confident tilt at the Australian 100m record to solely focus on the 100m hurdles for the world championship and Olympics.
Brits killing international league
IT IS rugby league's eternal wait and the international game is slowly dying.
All-star line-up for Australian three-day
A CLASS line-up is expected to compete in next month's Australian International Three-Day Event in Adelaide.
Lauren Mitchell takes world title
LAUREN Mitchell has outshone champion Aliya Mustafina to give Australia its first ever women's title at the world gymnastics championships
Tragic swim death investigation
THE president of FINA said "overexertion" led to the death of US national team swimmer Fran Crippen at a race in the United Arab Emirates.
Giants versus Rangers in World Series
THE San Francisco Giants have defeated Philadelphia 3-2 to win the National League pennant and reach the World Series for the first time since 2002.
Yankees stave off elimination
THE New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 7-2 to fend off elimination in the American League Championship and keep their World Seriers hopes alive.
Freestyling Kyle at World Cup
AUSTRALIAN swimmer Kyle Richardson has won a second consecutive men's 100m freestyle at the World Cup in Tokyo.
Mother of a serve over Pearson relay run
THE enraged mother of a Games sprinter has slammed Athletics Australia's head coach over his decision to include Sally Pearson in the 4x400m final.
Merritt banned from 2012 Olympics
DISGRACED sprinter Lashawn Merritt has been ruled ineligible to defend his Olympic 400-metre gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012.
Star skiers share whiite lights
A BIG night in the sun has finally arrived for the girls from the snow.
Contador misses Tour unveiling
TOUR de France organisers unveiled a climb-heavy 98th edition of the world's biggest bike race in 2011.
Olympic champ cops big drug ban
AMERICAN 400m Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt received a 21-month ban for an anabolic steroid contained in a penis enlargement product.
Pocketing a world title ... Aussie Neil Robertson makes a shot during his victory over Scot Graeme Dott in the final of the World Snooker Championships Sheffield, England.
Read MoreContador's bad meat claim rejected
THE World Anti-Doping Agency's David Howman has dismissed Alberto Contador's claims his positive Tour de France test was from contaminated meat.
Slater eyes 10th world surf title
SURFING'S world No.1 Kelly Slater has moved a step closer to an unprecedented 10th world title.
Armstrong probe huge for sport
THE World Anti-Doping Agency boss says he wouldn't be surprised if some BALCO-like revelations come out of the ongoing investigation into cycling.
Plastics test valid in court
RESULTS of tests that show high levels of plastic residue in Tour de France winner Alberto Contador's urine could be used as part of the doping case.
Team Sky shooting for the stars
BRITISH-BASED ProTour squad Team Sky has confirmed Australian cycling star Michael Rogers will join it next season.
Elite women riders targeted
ADELAIDE'S festival of cycling during the Tour Down Under is about to get even bigger with two new races next year.
Back to grassroots for athletes
ATHLETICS SA is to explore the possibility of a second synthetic running track being built in Adelaide.
Aussie Hawaii history makers
CHRIS McCormack and Mirinda Carfrae have made history with their wins yesterday at the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon.
Meares back on home soil
AN EXHAUSTED Anna Meares has returned home to Adelaide after dominating the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
McCormack conquers Hawaii
AUSSIE Chris McCormack has won his second Hawaiian Ironman triathlon title, pulling away in the closing stages of a classic race.
Nervy Pegasus now on track
THE Australian company racing to field the nation's first ProTour cycling team will unveil its naming sponsor next week.
Storm back in business
MELBOURNE Storm will end an 11-month hiatus and play its first match for premiership points when it hosts Manly in the 2011 season opener at AAMI Park.
Sprint queen Fraser's drug ban
REIGNING women's world and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica has been banned for six months for failing a doping test.
Contador in new doping claims
A URINE sample from Alberto Contador showed abnormally high levels of plastic residues, indicating he may have had a transfusion of his own blood.
Inexperience factor in luge death
NODAR Kumaritashvili's ``relative lack of experience'' played a role in the Georgian athlete's death before the start of the Vancouver Olympics.
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Motorcyclist killed in collision
A MOTORCYCLIST has died after colliding with a bus at the intersection of Commercial and Fremantle roads at Seaford.
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Giants big step to World Series win
THE San Francisco Giants are poised to win its first World Series title since 1954 after a third defeat of the Texas Rangers for a 3-1 lead.
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