22/11/2008 | ABOUT three years ago, while he was studying at the police academy, Stewart Devlin came down with pneumonia. It prompted him to do something about the golf ball-sized lump under his right arm, which f...
22/11/2008 | Sideswipe: THREE urine tests a week. Four hair samples a year. Welcome back, Ben Cousins, to the strict new world of AFL footy.
22/11/2008 | CHRIS YARRAN and Michael Walters are in Nick Naitanui's living room, sitting squeezed into a two-seater couch. They are trying to remember the first time they met, and it's hard; they can'...
22/11/2008 | RICHMOND has posted its fourth successive end-of-year profit, with membership for the 2008 season also increasing.
The club yesterday announced a net profit of about $8 million but the club's ...
22/11/2008 | The Australian Rugby Union will continue the worldwide trialling of the Experimental Law Variations at all levels next year following the International Rugby Board's decision to prolong its analys...
22/11/2008 | The new Tahs coach tells Rupert Guinness he wants to be judged on more than results. Rupert Guinness: You have 13 Wallabies coming back in mid-January. Will it be harder to integrate them an...
22/11/2008 | Le Link is loving his new life in France, writes Greg Growden in Paris. It hasn't taken long for Le Link to become an avowed Parisian again. His apartment is 100 metres from the Se...
22/11/2008 | If you want to stop the Wallabies from beating their chests, you just mention two Test locations - Auckland and Johannesburg.
22/11/2008 | THE BIG MATCH Australia v New Zealand. Tonight, Suncorp Stadium, 8pm (Sydney time). What the Aussies say They've used their Tri-Nations final loss to the Kiwis in 2005 as a reminder that...
22/11/2008 | AFTER being humbled by Australia in their opening World Cup match, disappointed Kiwis players made a pact to give themselves a shot at redemption in the final but captain Nathan Cayless admits they will have to play at their absolute best to win tonight - despite the Kangaroos yesterday losing prop Steve Price after a training mishap.
22/11/2008 | The Greg Bird saga will not go away. After indicating he was prepared to pick up the pieces of his career in England, the sidelined Sharks star has now told his management he "won't walk away&...
22/11/2008 | Greg Inglis could be weaving his Storm magic in his Kangaroos position next year, writes Glenn Jackson.
22/11/2008 | Gotta love this city. Late last Saturday afternoon - a beautifully warm late spring day, just like mother used to make - a group of 14-year-old boys gathered at a mate's place at Cronulla to celebrate his birthday were playing cricket on his quiet suburban street.
22/11/2008 | SYDNEY FC coach John Kosmina has issued a warning to his players that Adelaide United will be a vastly more focused and improved side now that their Asian Champions League commitments have come to an end.
22/11/2008 | FINALLY, after nine summer Olympic Games when he has woken to reporters' phone calls, attended early morning section-managers' meetings and stayed up late to check the sobriety of celebrating medallists, Australia's John Coates won't have to sleep in the athletes' village anymore, writes Roy Masters.
22/11/2008 | AUSTRALIA'S medal-winning Olympic athletes will continue to receive a bonus of up to $15,000, but money for winning coaches has been withdrawn under the new Australian Olympic Committee funding pr...
22/11/2008 | "IT'S Australian, so I'll give it half a star," said At The Movies' Margaret Pomeranz. "Entirely gluten-free," raved the Herald's Paul Byrnes.
22/11/2008 | COMPETENCE is always a question of time and place. Two decades ago, if you needed a ball player capable of slipping past four defenders, holding his balance as he slid the ball past an already beaten keeper in a World Cup quarter-final, you couldn't think of anyone better qualified than Diego Maradona.
22/11/2008 | THE focus isn't so much on Matthew Hayden's impending 100th Test, as whether he will get to 101. Hayden has spent considerable time mulling his options over the past year, and while he insists the fire within still burns, the fiercely proud Australian opener gave no time frame as to when it might extinguish.
22/11/2008 | BRAD HADDIN today has a chance to atone for the dropped catch that intensified the glare on Australia's fledgling gloveman, who has struggled to settle in behind the stumps since the retirement of...