Renegades get the better of Heat

11:09 PM   BIG BASH LEAGUE Melbourne Renegades beat Brisbane Heat by seven wickets in a Twenty20 clash at the Gabba.

City squeak through in derby thriller

Michael Lynch 10:02 PM   SOCCER Melbourne City delivered their supporters the Christmas present they had all been waiting for when they clung on for a nerve wracking  win in a pulsating Victorian derby.

Motor sport's year of living dangerously

MOTOR SPORT The deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna on one deadly weekend in 1994 pushed Formula One towards tighter safety regulations that kept grands prix fatality free for 19 years. That all ended in 2015.

Yuvraj picked for Australian tour

6:16 AM   CRICKET World Cup winners Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra are set for comebacks to the Indian team to tour Australia.

Lyon warns Windies can expect no mercy

Daniel Lane 5:48 PM   CRICKET Australia's spin bowler Nathan Lyon warned it won't be hard to show the battling West Indies no mercy in the Boxing Day Test.

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Chelsea restore order, Leicester five clear

Martyn Herman 8:43 AM   SOCCER Chelsea fans booed their team, but the post-Jose Mourinho era began with a 3-1 victory over Sunderland.

Van 't Schip lauds City's character

Daniel Cherny 11:39 PM   SOCCER John van 't Schip says the character his team showed in Saturday night's 2-1 win over Melbourne Victory gives him "a lot of joy looking forward."

New Stars leggie Zampa vows to do it his way

Jesse Hogan 7:27 PM   CRICKET He is another blonde leg-spinner, but Adam Zampa won't bow to pressure to try and spin the ball sharply like Shane Warne did and instead will rely on subtlety as his biggest weapon in the BBL.

Rodionova manages heat for play-off win

Larissa Nicholson 4:14 PM   TENNIS It was 36C at 11.10am in Melbourne, and Arina Rodionova had just clawed her way back from a shocking start to advance closer to a spot in next year's Australian Open.

Carlton ruckman is right where he wants to be

Matt Murnane 7:04 PM   AFL Matthew Kreuzer might have been the only one at Carlton who didn't want 2015 to end.

West Indies show some fight in tour game

Peter Hanlon 6:28 PM   All over the state on Saturday, sporting events were abandoned with an eye to the wellbeing of participants.

No AFL control: the lessons of 2015

Jake Niall 7:17 PM   In 2015, the AFL couldn't stop fans from booing Adam Goodes, or from expressing varying forms of racial prejudice.

Maccarone celebrates with beer

12:24 PM   Empoli extended their Serie A winning streak to four matches with a 3-2 triumph at Bologna in a thriller on Saturday after Massimo Maccarone got a double and celebrated with beer.

Jones wants a nasty England team

Jim White 10:00 AM   The man sitting behind me on the train was adamant. "If it happens," he was loudly informing the person at the other end of the phone line, "it will be the most scandalous thing to happen in British sport in history. And I mean ever."

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Rabbitohs try to lure Roberts home

Michael Carayannis 8:30 PM   South Sydney have hatched a plan for James Roberts to become a focal point of their off-field community work as they stepped up in their bid to attract the Rabbitohs junior back to the club.

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Honourable path to a grand slam debut

Linda Pearce 7:57 PM   Priscilla Hon knows she could play 21-time grand slam champion Serena Williams in the first round of next month's Australian Open.

Organiser pulls Tour from 2017 calendar

8:35 PM   Tour de France organiser ASO is withdrawing its races from the International Cycling Union (UCI) calendar in 2017 because of a disagreement over the reform of the calendar and the selection of teams.

Huet to challenge improper riding suspension

Adam Pengilly 6:52 PM   French jockey Thomas Huet will appeal a contentious four-week suspension incurred over an improper riding charge from the last race at Wyong on Thursday.

Flames overcome deficit to beat Boomers

Roy Ward 10:16 PM   Melbourne Boomers suqnadered a 21-point lead to lose to Sydney University Flames.

Diack sought Russian hush money: report

John Leicester 1:32 PM   The investigation into doping in Russian athletics has taken an unexpected turn, with French media reporting money was given to support regime change in Senegal.

Pssst: 'I'm nominated for what?'

Daniel Cherny 8:10 PM   If you were nominated for arguably the most prestigious annual multi-sports awards in the world, you'd half expect the organisers would let you know about it.

US stadium naming rights: absurd names

Clinton Yates 7:00 PM   The top 11 awesomely absurd bowl names of 2015.

From the cheap seats

Leaping Larry 6:45 PM   No doubt the whole FIFA mess has wound up exactly where everybody thought it would – i.e. with Russian president, and previously unsuspected comic genius, Vladimir Putin, insisting that suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hayne says practice accelerated development

Matt Barrows 8:06 PM   AMERICAN FOOTBALL Jarryd Hayne's first NFL season is drawing to a close, but he insists his career in America's most popular sport is just beginning.

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