Sport
Kelly Slater is 52 with a baby on the way and a dead man holding his hip together
The greatest surfer of all time concedes he is likely competing in Australia for the final time as a new chapter looms in his personal and professional life.
- by Dan Walsh
Minns rejects Tigers’ plea for Leichhardt Oval funding
- by Jasper Bruce, Sophia McCaughan and Christian Nicolussi
Opinion
NRL 2024
Is it too early in the season to be bagging the Bunker? Even when it’s right?
- by Andrew Webster
NRL
Opinion
Vale
Ian Heads, the ‘gentleman journalist’ of rugby league, dies aged 81
Described by ARLC chair Peter V’landys as ‘quite simply a doyen of rugby league journalism’, the former Sun-Herald columnist and author had been battling a long illness.
- by Andrew Webster
‘No self-preservation’: Murray sends scare through Souths camp
South Sydney captain Cameron Murray cut training short on Monday to deal with inflammation in his knee.
- by Christian Nicolussi
Eels lose Mitchell Moses for two months as Panthers suffer Cleary injury blow
- by Michael Chammas and Adam Pengilly
Insight & Analysis
Kiwi sides are unusually weak. The Waratahs are blowing their chance
Perhaps the Waratahs haven’t had the results their Super Rugby performances deserved. But with New Zealand teams in a post-World Cup transition, Darren Coleman’s men are missing a great opportunity.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
Context is everything: Revisiting Chris Lilley’s Jonah after Leniu-Mam saga
The racism case that has polarised the NRL has raised difficult questions about what’s offensive and who gets to judge it.
Emma Kemp
Sports reporter
Rating Sydney’s NRL stadiums from worst to best
From lifeless and loveless, to lush and luxurious, the Herald ranks your club’s Sydney stadium and gives you a chance to have your say.
Billie Eder
Reporter
Rugby Union
Analysis
Super Rugby
Kiwi sides are unusually weak. The Waratahs are blowing their chance
- by Paul Cully
Cricket
Exclusive
Australian cricket
Revealed: Winners and losers in Cricket Australia’s six-year Test schedule
- by Malcolm Conn
Soccer
‘I’m a confident kid’: Socceroos newcomer backs himself as the next Tim Cahill
Ever since Tim Cahill’s retirement in 2018, Australia have been searching for a dependable replacement up front.
- by Vince Rugari
How Messi’s ‘crazy’ mate is lending a hand to Socceroos’ goalkeeping heir
Joe Gauci is not even two months into life at Aston Villa, one of the Premier League’s rising powers, and says he can already feel the growth in his game – thanks, in large part, to Emiliano Martinez.
- by Vince Rugari
Australia 2 Lebanon 0
Australian soccer
McGree, Bos injured as Socceroos scrap to stressful win over Lebanon
- by Vince Rugari
Updated
Olympics
Matildas face tough road to maiden Olympic medal in Paris
- by James Polson and Vince Rugari
AFL
Two Sydney Swans women players caught with cocaine
- by Marnie Vinall, Sally Rawsthorne and Clare Sibthorpe
Analysis
AFL 2024
Sydney’s AFL teams are both 3-0. Now they’re disappearing for a month
- by Vince Rugari
Basketball
The half-court wonder shot that put JackJumpers within a win of NBL title
Tasmania forward Jack McVeigh took a step over the half-court, dribbled between his legs and launched himself into the history books as his miracle shot put his JackJumpers within one win of a maiden NBL championship.
- by Roy Ward
From Moe to the big stage: The Aussie staring down basketball’s record-breaking phenom Caitlin Clark
Moe’s Jaz Shelley is one of the Australians riding the exploding popularity of US women’s college basketball, playing in front of millions and hoping to lead Nebraska to a fairytale run in “March Madness”.
- by Roy Ward
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The greatest surfer of all time concedes he is likely competing in Australia for the final time as a new chapter looms in his personal and professional life.
- by Dan Walsh
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