Hometown hero Sam Kerr and Arsenal star Caitlin Foord have scored hat-tricks as the Matildas all but guaranteed passage to the next round of Olympic qualifying with a 8-0 rout of the Philippines in Perth. In front of a sellout crowd of 59,155 at Optus Stadium on Sunday, Kerr and Foord scored first-half braces as […]
BREAKING: Eddie Jones quits as Wallabies coach – ‘Sometimes you have to eat s–t for others to eat caviar’
Eddie Jones’ acrimonious second coming as Wallabies coach has officially come to an ugly end. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Jones, who won just two matches after taking over from Dave Rennie at the start of 2023 and steering the Wallabies to a disastrous pool stage exit at the Rugby World […]
Huni international debut success moves him within range of world title shot, Fury down but not out after split decision
Influential promoter Eddie Hearn believes Justis Huni is only “three or four fights’ away from a world-title shot after the undefeated Australian heavyweight made a triumphant international debut in Mexico. In his first bout in almost a year, Huni claimed the WBA international title with a unanimous points win over well-credentialed, big-punching American Andrew ‘The […]
‘Learned how to fight in dark place’: Why the Springboks are the most clutch team we have seen
PARIS – Three knockout matches. Three one-point wins. Are the Springboks the most clutch team in rugby history? “I don’t know how they’ve done it,” former Wallaby turned pundit Morgan Turinui said on Stan Sport. “Quarter-final, could have should have lost, the semi-final could have should have lost, and here they hold on somehow.” Indeed, […]
‘My heart breaks for him’: Boks coach’s message to Ian Foster is pure class as he bows out an unlucky loser
Right at the end the Ian Foster doubters were proven right. The noisy and nagging critics of the straight-talking All Blacks coach got to see him bow out how they’d always imagined – as a loser. But how close he came to proving them, and the New Zealand Rugby suits who decided to send him […]