India captain Rohit Sharma led from the front with an impressive half-century before retiring hurt to guide his team to an eight-wicket victory over Ireland in their opening T20 World Cup group match in New York. After 14 wickets had fallen for 157 runs in the first match on the temporary drop-in pitch when South […]
Queensland assistant coach Nate Myles is likely to receive an official warning about his behaviour after he sledged Joseph Suaalii repeatedly as the Blues debutant made his way to the sheds after being sent off in the Origin opener. Myles repeatedly taunted the young Rooster with “enjoy your fucking debut”, according to a NewsCorp report, […]
The Paris dream is over for Alex de Minaur, his hopes of reaching the French Open semi-final ground into the Roland Garros clay-court dust by the relentless Olympic champion Alexander Zverev. The first Australian man into the quarter-finals since Lleyton Hewitt two decades ago, de Minaur’s improbable adventure came to a halt in his first […]
As the book closes on the regular season of Super Rugby Pacific 2024, it’s an apt time to reflect on how it went for the five Australian sides. Three of them have made it to the quarter finals, with just one sneaking into the top four. However, across the board, apart from the NSW Waratahs, […]
There were two big winners out of a weird and wonderful Round 12 of AFL action: Fremantle, and The Roar’s own Dem Panopoulos. While the rest of us expert tippers were scrambling about trying – and failing – to so much as get half our tips right on a weekend full of upsets, Dem’s bold […]
