AS ZION WILLIAMSON began to dribble up the court late in the first half of the New Orleans Pelicans’ match-up with Melbourne United at Rod Laver Arena on Friday night, there was a collective pulse-quickening around the stadium. Williamson, who when healthy, is the...
BAILEY SMITH nearly had his promising AFL career derailed by an ACL injury sustained during a training session in December of 2023. Now, the star midfielder has revealed his recovery was even tougher than originally thought.At the 2025 AFL Awards night, where Smith...
AN UNFORGIVING, UNFORGETTABLE 10-match, six-week tour of duty awaits the British & Irish Lions. Without a series win in 12 years, the heat is on. Can 38 elite athletes from four rival nations band together for one of sport's most demanding challenges? At the heart...
IT'S A GROSS cliché, but you never forget your first match. I remember stepping into the simmering hum of a football stadium, seven years old, wearing my older brother’s oversized replica shirt and clutching a match-day program so tight the ink was almost staining my...
WHEN STRONG MAN MITCHELL HOOPER set up to complete a Flintstone Barbell – a behind-the-neck overhead press using two giant rocks – in the qualifying rounds of the 2022 World’s Strongest Man, he was slightly apprehensive. He’d never attempted the move before,...
The slimmed-down former no.1 draft pick hit Aussie shores this past weekend for the NBA X NBL Melbourne series, in what turned out to be a showcase for both leagues, and perhaps, a harbinger for what Williamson might unleash this coming season
At AFL Awards night, the Geelong Cats superstar lifted the lid on his time spent in a mental facility while recovering from a torn ACL
It's billed as the pinnacle of a player's career. Here's how Lions' coach Aled Walters is preparing his team to take on the Wallabies
Fandom can bring us purpose and belonging. But it has a dark side, too...
Elite athletes use visualisation for everything from running 5Ks to riding bulls – and the science increasingly backs it up. So what can it do for you?
