WHEN I SPEAK to Taylor Fritz’s coach, Michael Russell, everything is going according to plan in the world no.4's quest to make it to the pointy end of the Australian Open. Fritz is coming off a straight sets thrashing of Chilean Cristian Garin and has only dropped a...
NOT A LOT phases Australian UFC star Alex Volkanovski. While the featherweight division’s GOAT may have recently surrendered his belt to Georgian-Spaniard fighter Ilia Topuria at UFC 298, you would be surprised if Volkanovski let the defeat affect his long term plans...
ISAAC HEENEY AND I are walking through Centennial Park on a hot and sticky Sydney afternoon. It’s just over a week out from the opening night of the 2024 AFL season and as we leisurely make our way across the open parkland, Heeney is at ease, barefoot and shirtless....
SUMMER HAS COME to pass, which can only mean the AFL season is right around the corner. And it is, with anticipation reaching fever pitch and fans currently dusting off their scarves and jerseys as they eagerly await the opening fixtures. The AFL is on the cusp of a...
RED BULL RACER Max Verstappen is looking undeniable in his quest to secure his fourth-consecutive Formula 1 World Championship this year, with the Dutch star untouchable en-route to victory in Saturday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, a race in which he finished...
For many of us, it feels like yesterday when a teenaged swimmer named Ian Thorpe was toppling world records, seemingly at will. Yet that precocious soul has just turned 40 – and is ready now to peer both backwards and forwards on a remarkable life, one punctuated by great achievements and profound personal challenges. These days, something that speaks eloquently to Thorpe’s complexity and the costs imposed by a life in the spotlight is the nature of his most heartfelt yearning: to be able to see the world again through the eyes of a child.
Cristian Volpato is one of the brightest rising stars in Italy’s Serie A, but the 18-year-old who was born in Sydney could snub the Socceroos in favour of Italy.
Alex De Minaur has claimed his first win over a top-five opponent, defeating world number three Daniil Medvedev in a three-set thriller at the Paris Masters.
Born without legs, inspirational athlete Zion Clark hasn’t let that stop him from shattering a handful of world records.
YouTuber turned pro-boxer Jake Paul has continued his meteoric rise, defeating UFC legend Anderson Silva in the toughest fight of his boxing career.
The United Cup is the newest joint ATP and WTA mixed tennis tournament. With play across three Australian cities, the cup will kickstart next year’s tennis season.
In his new book, A Father’s Son, Mat Rogers revisits this traumatic episode in a raw and noble attempt to make sense of the unthinkable.
The Socceroos have become the first team competing at the 2022 FIFA World Cup to release a collective statement of protest against host nation Qatar’s human rights record.
After years of frustration, an embattled 1500m runner makes
a breathtaking surge on the back straight in a semi-final at the
Rio Olympics.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the feats of Nedd Brockmann, it’s to never bet against him. But as his Physio explains, “This is the most insane thing I have ever seen in my career.”
The shock of sandpaper gate rocked the sporting world at large, but for Australia’s former test captain Tim Paine, apparently the South African team was also resorting to ball tampering tricks.
Love a good tee time but want to shake things up a bit? Queenstown might be your guy.
