1:00 AM AEDT | Adelaide United signed off from the A-League for the time being with a cavalier 6-1 hiding of Wellington Phoenix, supposedly the competition's in-form side heading into Friday night's match at...
1:00 AM AEDT | RENI MAITUA boned ... Kiwi batting resistance as flaky as their dollar ... Ponting wrist scare taken as seriously as Union versus League proposal ... John Daly puts Australia under a cloud of ciggie smoke ... Wallabies to star in Barbershop III ... Bling FC falls to the Russians.
1:00 AM AEDT | IF DEMONS of the past were clawing at Simon Katich's mind, he has decided to face them by declaring the Proteas' pace attack is as dangerous as the 2005 England swing squad that effectively st...
1:00 AM AEDT | AT FIRST glance, you would be hard-pressed to find the link between Tuncurry Sporties Club on the mid-North Coast, where locals and holidaymakers trade willing groundstrokes before retreating to the bar, and Roland Garros, where well-groomed Parisians watch the French Open from behind expensive sunglasses.
1:00 AM AEDT | V8 SUPERCARS drivers fear the race for the title at Oran Park this weekend could be turned into a lottery because penny-pinching organisers have not spent enough on the track to ensure the surface is ...
1:00 AM AEDT | ONE of the reasons rugby traditionalists opposed the switch to professionalism in the mid-1990s was they feared the game would lose its special culture - its for-love-not-money tradition - if players got paid.
1:00 AM AEDT | Ausport's new viral email is bound to bring out your patriotic side, writes Jacquelin Magnay.
1:00 AM AEDT | WE KNOW Ricky Stuart is passionate, we know he is a great coach. What we don't know is if he is man enough to truly acknowledge the invidious position in which he has placed his biggest supporters - the Australian Rugby League board - and his biggest fans, the thousands of young footballers.
1:00 AM AEDT | FIGHTING one weight division and several distinctions below Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao is Australian Navy officer Lincoln Stewart, who has brittle hands, a stern will and some unfinished busi...
1:00 AM AEDT | TRAGEDY! No, no, no, CATASTROPHE! I cite yesterday's Herald report, which noted the warnings of some of Australia's top sports officials of the consequences if the Federal Government does not find more than the $213 million currently targeted for the elite Australian athletes through the Australian Sports Commission.
1:00 AM AEDT | IT'S a week since the first of the only two doors that could lead drug-addicted star Ben Cousins back to the football field next season was slammed shut in his face at the AFL's national draft. Few expect a different result at the pre-season draft on December 16 when just six clubs have the opportunity to pick - or, almost certainly, reject - Cousins.
1:00 AM AEDT | FOR John Kosmina every game is a must-win, no matter what the circumstances. It's the mantra the Sydney FC coach has sworn by for 35 years, but it's never been more appropriate than right now.
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY FC striker Mark Bridge has fired back at claims that he's mentally soft and says the best way to silence the vocal Newcastle Jets fans tomorrow night will be to score and make sure his side...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE bookies are back. Probably they never went away, just further underground. After all, one of them blithely describes himself on his curriculum vitae as an arms trader, drug supplier and cricket-ma...
1:00 AM AEDT | THE Queensland Racing Board yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to reciprocate penalties imposed by other racing authorities.
1:00 AM AEDT | CRICKET-LOVERS' recapture of the Sheffield Shield can only be claimed a success when those ugly big black numbers are removed from the backs of the players' starch white shirts. The numbers serve no purpose, are totally out of place and greatly detract from the "cricket whites". Sport's simplest, most historic and non-discriminatory uniform should not be desecrated so.
1:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY car salesman Nedal Hussein still remembers the day he floored Manny Pacquiao.
1:00 AM AEDT | 1 With Twenty20 cricket commanding an even greater place on domestic and international schedules, do you envisage a threat to 50-over cricket in the medium to long term?
I see Twenty20 as a huge...
1:00 AM AEDT | JOHN LYLE is an old newspaperman who tells it like it is, and on Thursday night he gave his son Jarrod the rounds of the kitchen. Well, an argument over the dinner table, actually, and the result was a nine-under-par, course-record-equalling 63 at Coolum yesterday.
1:00 AM AEDT | LUCAS DUMBRELL, 19, the younger brother of Holden V8 Supercars driver Paul Dumbrell, was operated on last night at Liverpool Hospital after sustaining serious back injuries in a high-speed crash durin...