With the Finals over and the November 1 contract deadline passed, we can officially declare the NRL’s silly season open. Into the morass of gossip and conjecture, we will bring sanity, with the relaunch of Smart Signings, our dissection of where clubs are weak, what they need to improve and where they might find it. […]
The hard part is over for Australia – they’ve managed to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals despite an imbalanced squad and an 0-2 start to the tournament. Now the really hard part is on the horizon – reversing their two thunderous defeats to South Africa and India, on the assumption that the tournament favourites […]
A month of the season is now in the books – and we’ve already had our second coaching change with Steve Corica dismissed by Sydney FC. Plenty to run the rule over, so let’s not delay – here are your A-League Round 4 talking points. Corica’s time runs out Another week, another manager sacked: this […]
Former NBL MVP Jaylen Adams has flexed his muscle as the Sydney Kings wiped out a huge deficit and launched a late surge to overrun the Brisbane Bullets in a 104-95 win at home. The Kings were slow out of the blocks at Qudos Bank Arena on Sunday and trailed by 14 points late in […]
England’s ODI squad for next month’s white-ball tour of the West Indies contains only six survivors from the team’s disastrous World Cup defence in India. Less than 12 hours after exiting the World Cup, England named new-look squads for the tour and have gone back to the drawing board with an emphasis on the three […]
