Sport
AFL Briefing
AFL 2022
Martin won’t return for last two rounds; Hannebery to miss Lions clash
Richmond coach Damien Hardwick won’t play Dustin Martin again this in 2022 unless they make the finals, while Dan Hannebery won’t play for the Saints on Friday night.
- by Roy Ward
AFL
AFL Briefing
AFL 2022
Grundy prefers to stay at Pies; McEvoy to retire; Roo’s emotional return; Dons want Heppell; Tasmania impasse
Brodie Grundy wants to remain at Collingwood, but his future is likely to be decided by money on offer from other teams. Meanwhile, Ben McEvoy will retire, Ben Cunnington will return at AFL level for North, while the Bombers want their skipper to stay.
- by Sam McClure, Scott Spits and Jon Pierik
Carlton to appeal tribunal call on Cripps, Walls says it would be tough to make finals without him
Carlton have decided to appeal the AFL tribunal’s decision to uphold skipper Patrick Cripps’ two-match ban over a rough conduct charge.
- by Peter Ryan
Updated
AFL 2022
Walker says he met with teammates after camp; chairman says Ricciuto ‘not on the agenda’
- by Sam McClure and Scott Spits
Insight & Analysis
Inside the F1 contract fight shaping the destiny of three Australians
Forget Drive to Survive; this is genuine F1 high drama, the type Netflix can only dream of. It’s a tale of ambition, high-stakes manoeuvrings and broken promises.
Matthew Clayton
Four Points: The game needs to face home (and away) truths as case to keep De Goey improves
The events of this week shows the game’s problem with small truths shows why it’s often ill-equipped to handle large truths.
Peter Ryan
Sports reporter
Many footballers are not ready when tap on the shoulder comes
Mathew Stokes didn’t know how to do up a tie properly or set up an office meeting when he retired, and was underwhelmed by his first post-footy pay packet. And he was one of the more prepared ones.
Mathew Stokes
Cricket
Warner on course to sign with Thunder this weekend
- by Malcolm Conn and Daniel Brettig
‘Not mercenaries’: Fifteen Australians targeted by UAE Twenty20 league
- by Daniel Brettig and Malcolm Conn
Soccer
Real Madrid 2 Eintracht Frankfurt 0
UEFA
Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 to win UEFA Super Cup
- by Karolos Grohmann
Basketball
‘Why do you have to choose?’: New mum Screen has baby along for NBA camp
Jenni Screen hates to miss an opportunity, so the former Opal turned mum has baby daughter Edith alongside her as she coaches at an NBA camp this week.
- by Roy Ward
Jackson creates moment in history
Australian head coach Sandy Brondello tells Lauren Jackson that she will play with the Opals at her 5th FIBA World Cup.
Racing
Tennis
Kyrgios downs world No.1, Serena loses first match since retirement announcement
Nick Kyrgios’ stirring win over Daniil Medvedev was his 14th from his past 15 matches and set up a clash with countryman Alex De Minaur for a place in the quarter-finals.
- by Darren Walton
Serena wipes away tears following loss to Bencic
An emotional Serena Williams has wiped away tears after losing to Belinda Bencic in Toronto.
NRL
‘It’s all a bit of fun’: Identity of Roger ‘Shoey’ Vasa-Sheck revealed
- by Christian Nicolussi
Also in Sport
‘Why can’t an athlete ply their trade?’: Kim Hughes goes in to bat for Cameron Smith
Kim Hughes, who led rebel Australia cricket tours to South Africa in the mid-1980s, believes that Cameron Smith is the latest athlete to be unfairly criticised.
- by Malcolm Conn
Violence against children in community sport is rampant, study finds
More than 80 per cent of survey respondents across 68 different sports reported experiencing some form of violence in community sport as a child.
- by Mibenge Nsenduluka
