Gold Coaster Tom Toparis eyes third win at Warwick
Gold Coast motorcycling's rising star Tom Toparis has his feet on the ground, but hopes this month's Supersports championship round at Warwick will push him to the next level.
Tony Moore is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times
Gold Coast motorcycling's rising star Tom Toparis has his feet on the ground, but hopes this month's Supersports championship round at Warwick will push him to the next level.
An Ipswich City Council bid to take over the Willowbank motorsports precinct appears destined for court, after long-term lease holders rejected the $1.5 million council offer.
Some of Australia's most famous Bathurst race cars will go up for auction on Saturday as private collector John Harris sells his personal motor collection in Brisbane.
When she crossed the finishing line on to win the gold medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Cathy Freeman felt joy, then disappointment, then relief.
Meetings with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Sports Minister Curtis Pitt on Tuesday week will decide if a Brisbane boy bullied at school to take up boxing can fight the world's ruling welterweight champion in front of 50,000 people at Suncorp Stadium and become the world's new welterweight champion.
Brisbane is about to compete for Australian boxing's bout of the century when Brisbane's "fighting schoolteacher" Jeff Horn is confirmed on Wednesday as the contender against "legendary" world welterweight champ Manny Pacquiao in April 2017.
Former Parramatta and Rabbitohs halfback Chris Sandow has been arrested and charged with public nuisance after brawling with another man in the street at Cherbourg.
The emerging popularity of T20 cricket and the Brisbane Heat has seen the first-ever sell-out crowd at The Gabba in 10 years since Ricky Ponting's team began their Ashes rout at The Gabba in 2006.
Cricket Australia is offering $20 "twilight session" tickets as day-night Test match cricket comes to the 'Gabba for the first time.
Ex-premier will head Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Corporation.
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