Clement and Beyonce, Nitro's star power
From Beyonce to Rio, Olympic gold medallist and dancer Kerron Clement is the perfect athlete entertainer to complement Usain Bolt in Nitro on Saturday night.
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Michael Gleeson
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
The hits and misses of the tournament
Australian Open 2017 delivered all the fun and excitement of ... Australian Open 2005. Retro tennis was a pleasing departure for this year's competition.
Olympic champ pulls out of Nitro
Former Olympic hurdles champion Dawn Harper-Nelson will not run in Australia after pulling out of the Nitro series.
Jack in awe of Bolt
Jack Hale is now competing against men, but never does he sound more like a boy than when being asked about Usain Bolt.
'This has truly made my life': emotional Lucic-Baroni advances to semis
Emotional Mirijana Lucic-Baroni wept and declared everything bad that had happened in her troubled life was now made OK by winning through to just her second grand slam semi-final, 18 years after her last.
Bolt picks Australians with Olympic Stars for Nitro team
Usain Bolt is coming to town, and he's not planning on leaving as the loser.
Federer wins match, Zverev wins praise
Roger Federer is through to a semi final match up with countryman Stan Warinka after beating Mischa Zverev but praising the German's attractive game.
Rafa-Roger final would be the greatest match ever: Roddick
Now a watcher and fan not a player Andy Roddick said a dream final at this year's Australian Open of Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal would be the most important match in grand slam history.
No Plan B. From Subway in southern Texas to beating the best
Mischa Zverev didn't have a Plan B. He didn't have it two years ago and he didn't have it two nights ago against Andy Murray.
Unseeded Coco smashes past Kerber despite 'feeling crap out there'
For the first time ever neither of the men's or women's top ranked players has made the quarter finals after women's world number one Angelique Kerber followed men's top seed Andy Murray out of the Australian Open losing to American Coco Vandeweghe.
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