ACT utility Jordan Smiler has reminded pundits the Brumbies are in the business of winning, not losing.

Sydney's superstar Winx is likely to stay at home despite overtures from Melbourne, but her regular partner Hugh Bowman plans a Dubai sojourn during the autumn carnival.

Australian cricketers and support staff in the Pakistan Super League will have to make a call within days whether they are prepared to risk their safety and play in the Twenty20 final in Lahore.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) will this week begin working with A-League and W-League clubs to develop a new ownership and operating model for both leagues but have put expansion on the backburner for at least two more years.

Pace duo Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood have emerged as Australia's trump cards in the second Test with reverse swing looming as the visitors' major weapon to keep India's humbled batsmen on the canvas.

Mumble it after me: it was a crap pitch. Louder? OK, IT WAS A CRAP PITCH. Australia won on a crap pitch.

A group of four tennis fans, who claim they were directly targeted by Nick Kyrgios at the Mexico Open, say they felt threatened by the Australian tennis star and have demanded an apology.

Ellyse Perry is fit and ready to return to the Southern Stars, six weeks after a hamstring injury.

Andrew Bogut is well placed to become the first Australian to win NBA titles with two different clubs after agreeing to join superstar LeBron James at the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Bernard Tomic's commitment to tennis is expected to come under the microscope again after the Australian pulled out of his first round match in Acapulco citing "unbearable heat".

Formula One testing is not unlike the AFL's pre-season competition – it's about putting run in the legs, avoiding grand statements of intent and seemingly endless tinkering.

Dixon Hemphill was the only runner in the men's 90 to 94 age group, but it was the thrilling head-to-head race against Orville Rogers that reached beyond the insular community of masters track and field.

When God handed out the first set of netball bibs sometime in the first century AD, she decreed that the G in four of the seven positions stood for "goal".  As in Goal shooter. Goal attack. Goal defence.  Goal keeper.  In modern netball the G might as well stand for other things. Glamour shoot...

Jurgen Klopp's record promised success at last but momentum is being lost.

Conor McGregor's coach John Kavanagh says his star pupil would beat Floyd Mayweather in a boxing bout.

The Perth Wildcats are on the cusp of a second straight NBL championship after an 89-77 defeat of the Illawarra Hawks in game two of the grand final series in Wollongong.

By Tim Keeble

When the winger does  bang in a goal he likes to make it one to remember.

Your Honour, in the matter before the court of James McManus v the Newcastle Knights, I seek to approach the bench.

Former Raiders captain Terry Campese is set for a Canberra Stadium farewell in this year's rugby league World Cup.

Naomi Lee is aiming for the Commonwealth Games after claiming a bronze medal at the World Cup.

India's pitch doctors are moving to blunt Australia's dual threats of spin and reverse swing by producing a surface in keeping with the hosts' recent winning formula.

Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Nicole Arrold has been named Hockeyroos assistant coach.

It took the worst night of results for Australian teams in Asia, but A-League clubs will finally be given the flexible fixtures to compete in the continent.

Two retired Zimbabwean cricketers have engaged in a brutal social media exchange.