Essendon continues to duck for cover
CAROLINE WILSON Essendon continues to point the finger while making its way through a costly line of courtrooms.
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Lake suspended for four, Petrie gets reprimand
JESSE HOGAN 9:21pm AFL The AFL has conclusively laid the blame for Friday night's ugly scuffle between Brian Lake and Drew Petrie at the feet of the Hawthorn defender.
Players knew what they had been given: Dank
JON PIERIK 8:15pm AFL Stephen Dank, the man at the centre of the Essendon supplements scandal, says the players knew what they had been administered.
McLachlan backs Harcourt over comments
JON PIERIK 8:27pm AFL AFL chief executive Gill McLachlan admits the league's medical officer put some flourish on his controversial comments about the Essendon supplements scandal.
Injured Gary Ablett staying positive
10:39am AFL Injured Gold Coast skipper Gary Ablett is remaining upbeat about his immediate AFL future after meeting with leading surgeon Greg Hoy in Melbourne.
AFL to persist with current interchange cap
EMMA QUAYLE 11:44am AFL The current interchange cap will remain in place for at least one more season, with the AFL not contemplating any changes until at least 2016.
Hell awaits those unaccustomed to the cobbles
RUPERT GUINNESS 12:08pm TOUR DE FRANCE Heinrich Haussler smiles as he says stage five will be "something special".
Argentina keen to embarrass Brazil
MICHAEL LYNCH 7:18am SOCCER For Brazilian fans there might be only one thing worse than the Selecao not winning the World Cup.
Neymar denies aiming for World Cup return
7:02am WORLD CUP Neymar and the Brazilian football confederation have denied media reports that the striker could undergo special treatment on his fractured vertebra to try to play in the World Cup final.
Williams relishes City transformation
JESSE HOGAN SOCCER Three years after he emerged from the ruins of North Queensland Fury, David Williams is ecstatic at the transformation under way at Melbourne City.
AFL News
Pavlich to play on with Dockers
DAVID PRESTIPINO 1:28pm Matthew Pavlich will suit up for his 16th AFL season with Fremantle in 2015 after signing a one-year contract extension.
Troy Menzel confident he will remain with Carlton
Reality TV show exposes recruiting shortcomings: Voss
League, union back medical director Harcourt
Stakes high for Essendon, Hird and ASADA
Summit proposed on holding-the-ball rule
Luke Parker to join Swans' fab four
Carlton’s Troy Menzel is round-16 NAB AFL Rising Star nominee
John Longmire puts focus on flexibility at Sydney Swans
Jonathan Brown calls on AFL to cut interchanges back to '60 or 80'
Eagle Matt Rosa to miss rest of season with pectoral injury
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AFL Opinion
Brian Lake: He's not changing
DANIEL CHERNY 1:13pm Even during Brian Lake's finest hour, discipline eluded him.
Petrie unfairly punished in Lake scuffle
JESSE HOGAN Drew Petrie does not deserve punishment for his instinctive defensive reaction at being choked by his opponent Brian Lake at the weekend.
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World Cup
Official arrested in black market ticket probe
7:25am A senior executive with the World Cup corporate hospitality provider has been arrested as part of a Brazilian police investigation into illegal ticket sales.
Brazil's Thiago Silva loses appeal over semi-final ban
Juan Camilo Zuniga won't face FIFA action over Neymar foul
World Cup: Brazil's Neymar feared he was paralysed with back injury
German mix of flair and pragmatism a threat to Brazil's World Cup hopes
End of the beautiful game: why fans have fallen out of love with Brazil
This magnificent World Cup has last four it deserves
Dutch masterstroke: Tim Krul studied penalty takers for weeks
Argentina's Angel di Maria ruled out of World Cup semi-final
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Tennis
Groth advances, Ebden loses at US tennis
3:16pm Hard-serving Australian Sam Groth and second-seeded Ivo Karlovic won their opening-round matches on Monday at the ATP Tour's Hall of Fame tennis championships.
Djokovic's finest win in his greatest final
Was this Roger Federer's last hurrah?
Samantha Stosur wins Wimbledon mixed doubles title
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Cycling
Kittel wins third stage at Buckingham Palace
Julian Drape Mark Renshaw claimed an impressive third place when the Tour de France sped into London after his team backed him in the absence of former world champion Mark Cavendish.
Richie Porte feared it was deja vu when he crashed on stage two
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Motor Sport
Swiss firm suspected in Schumacher theft
Lyon France has tracked down the IP address of the computer used by the alleged thief of Michael Schumacher's medical records.
Daniel Ricciardo scores 'best ever' third place
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Rugby League
Meninga cops spray from Blues legend Elias
NSW great Ben Elias has baulked at calling Queensland coach Mal Meninga a sore loser but admits his pre-State of Origin media no-show is not a good look.
Laurie Daley wants Blues to go on the attack in Origin III
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Rugby Union
Waratahs won't let Reds distract them
Adrian Warren The Waratahs are determined not to allow old rivals Queensland to verbally or physically blow them off course with a maiden Super Rugby title tantalisingly within reach.
Waratahs are fitter and faster, leaving the fans happier
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Horse Racing
Warrior faces uphill battle against Vain Queen
Shanghai Warrior has pleased Pat Hyland in his comeback from injury but the trainer admits the group-winning sprinter faces a formidable opponent when he lines up at Flemington.
Hong Kong push could pave way for national totalisator
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Cricket
England out to stem losing tide against India
London England aims to avoid a third consecutive series defeat and ease the pressure on captain Alastair Cook when it hosts India in a five-Test series starting in Nottingham on Wednesday.
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Looking desperate, ugly for Sterling in Court
Bill Plaschke 3:26pm BASKETBALL It was the first day of Donald Sterling's final desperate fight for the Los Angeles Clippers, the first day of his last battle for the reputation of his sanity and the ownership of his basketball team.
NFL concussion settlement gets judge's OK
Sam Farmer 12:42pm GRIDIRON The National Football League is one step closer to closing the books on a landmark concussion lawsuit.
The Nathan Walker effect
WILL BRODIE 1:15pm ICE HOCKEY Sunday June 28 was Nathan Walker Day for the small but passionate Australian hockey community.
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Argentina beat Belgium
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Netherlands beat Costa Rica
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'Le Tour' heads to France
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