The Wallabies are trying to fit a 140kg square peg into a round hole.
Is confidence in sport like pregnancy? Can you be half confident? Some would suggest not. You’re either confident or not.
Darren Lehmann is hardly likely to go, given the debts to him owed by his superiors. That’s why his position invites scrutiny.
The former England captain looks at the different approaches to playing on the subcontinent.
Our weekly round-up of the weird and wacky in the wonderful world of sports.
Here was a smug morning just begging to be beaten up. Comfortably warm to allow players to keep their cool.
This was cricket’s Donald Trump moment. Nobody of any weight saw Trump coming, but everybody is wise in the aftermath.
The problem with Stephen Dank’s appeal against a life ban is it relies upon the most reliably unreliable witness: himself.
Two of the world’s most exciting golfers hovered around the top of the leaderboard.
If any confirmation was needed that Australian cricket is in crisis it came at James Sutherland’s press conference.
It is not in Ange Postecoglou’s DNA to panic, but he will have much food for thought in coming months.
Aaron Baddeley is back where it all began. But the journey from 1999 to now has been a long test of faith.
Golf’s secret is intoxicating. Even for duffers. Because every now and then you achieve perfection.
Few Australian batsmen are so handsome in full flight, but George Bailey still struggles with self-belief.
Not even in the darkest times of Australian cricket’s 1980s dark age was it this bad. Where do we go from here?
It is hard not to look at what the world has got and Australian cricket has not at the moment.
For the fifth time in succession, a Scotland Test came down to a converted try.
Scotland’s up tempo style of play almost proved too much for the Wallabies to cope with.
Differing approaches off the field are now reflected in onfield results for both South Africa and Australia.
Enter big stage right, America’s latest sporting hero ... a squirrel.
For some it’s the great cultural sites. For others, it’s the exotic food. For my two sons, travel means soccer jerseys.
It can be argued that the Central Coast Mariners are one of the most maligned clubs in the A-League.
Jamie Maclaren’s second time in an Australian jumper didn’t go according to plan but he’ll bounce back says Matt McKay.
The next chapter in one of the English Premier League’s most volatile managerial rivalries will be written this weekend.
Darius Boyd is hopeful the small in-goal areas on the Anfield pitch won’t present too many safety concerns.
Andreas Mikkelsen is doing all he can to ensure a fourth consecutive 1-2 in the drivers’ title for Volkswagen.
Unbeaten former champion Floyd Mayweather says he has retired from the sport for good.
Daria Gavrilova has, by any measure, had a year to remember.
South African jockey Douglas Whyte fears former mount Lite’n In My Veins in today’s Railway Stakes at Ascot.
Novak Djokovic is playing for a lot more than a sixth title at the ATP finals, he also wants to regain the No 1 ranking.
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