California-Berkeley rugby player Robert Paylor's life changed in an instant on Saturday when a freak accident during the Bears' 43-13 national championship victory over Arkansas State left him paralysed from the chest down.

It sounds like basketball's Mission Impossible for Australia's Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and their Utah Jazz teammates when they meet the Golden State Warriors in their NBA western conference semi-final series.

​Australians Joe Ingles and Dante Exum will face title favourites Golden State in the NBA western conference semi-finals after their Utah Jazz claimed a 4-3 playoffs series win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

Australia's Joe Ingles, Dante Exum and their Utah Jazz have blown an opportunity to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers from the NBA play-offs.

Solomon Thomas, a 191cm-tall and 125kg defensive lineman who grew up on Sydney's beaches, has been selected by the San Francisco 49ers with the third overall pick in the NFL Draft.

A silver 2006 Toyota 4Runner. Mint condition. Only 19,300 km on the odometer. This is what the car dealer in East Providence, Rhode Island, had to offer Aaron Hernandez, an up-and-coming star with the New England Patriots when he arrived at the lot in 2010.

Thon Maker, Matthew Dellavedova and their young, promising Milwaukee Bucks are just one loss away from being eliminated from the NBA play-offs.

Robert Whittaker believes his next date is a bout for the UFC Middleweight title.

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At issue is whether Hernandez's violent behaviour and mood swings could have been partly explained by chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative nerve disease found in the brains of those who have had repeated or severe hits to the head.

MMA star Ronda Rousey has revealed she got engaged after her partner Travis Browne popped the question during a recent holiday to New Zealand.

Just four years ago, Aaron Hernandez lived in a four-storey mansion. On Wednesday, he died in a jail cell.

In place of an obituary for Aaron Hernandez there is only an unexplained, incomplete blank followed by a question mark.

Like many sports teams before them, the New England Patriots visited the White House where they met with President Donald Trump on Thursday to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. But two dozen or more members of the team, including quarterback Tom Brady, were not on hand, and some of them explicitly cited politics as their reason.

Former New England Patriots tight end who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murder was found dead in his prison cell, Massachusetts Department of Corrections officials say.

Since gaining weight and moving up to the middleweight division, Australia's Robert Whittaker has remained undefeated, and he knows that whatever happens on the weekend, his future will at some stage involve a UFC title fight.

Young Australian Dante Exum is expecting an impending maiden NBA playoffs series to be among the toughest challenges of his career.

Donald Trump will not participate in the longstanding Major League Baseball tradition of US presidents throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Washington Opening Day games

The Los Angeles Lakers have honoured Shaquille O'Neal with a bronze statue of the Hall of Fame centre who helped them to three consecutive NBA titles.

Australian guard Dante Exum has scored a career-high 22 points in his Utah Jazz team's 104-112 NBA loss against Oklahoma City Thunder.