Does your son or daughter dream of representing Australia? Two experts reveal key parts of Smith’s success.

Since being sacked as Wallabies coach in early 2023 to make way for Eddie Jones, Dave Rennie has never opened up about his time in Australia – and his contentious exit. Until now.

Young and exciting, the Gold Coast Suns are having a breakout year under a highly credentialled coach who has rediscovered his love of football.

This time last year, the McEvoys hoped Caulfield Cup favourite Half Yours would live up to his billing. Now the stayer has nothing to prove, but he has lost none of the talent that made him the most famous racehorse in the country.

Explosive new legal action against the team’s owner is attempting to dismantle its board and hand rank-and-file members effective control of the joint venture.

They’ve improved their lineout, the scrum, their defence and their attack, but if they can’t secure the high ball, they can’t beat the All Blacks.

Sydney FC coach Patrick Kisnorbo has remained tight-lipped on Marcel Tisserand's future at the A-League Men club, with the defender managing injury concerns.

While a goalless derby draw won't account for much on the table, Western Sydney coach Ufuk Talay says it's a good step forward for the wooden spooners.

South Africa have conceded they didn't do a good enough job making Australia's bowlers toil in the first Test, a point they must address at St George's Park.

Australia's 'big four' bowlers have entered the most rarefied of air as they approach a 10th year together, with the benefit of age playing into their hands.

British comeback player Sonay Kartal has kept the shocks coming at the Wuhan Open with one of the best wins of her career over Ukrainian star Elina Svitolina.

Spanish youngster Rafael Jodar has continued his inexorable rise, defeating Casper Ruud to make the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters at the age of just 20.

The Kia Tigers and the LG Twins, the two teams that have combined to win the past three Korean baseball championships, will renew their postseason rivalry starting this weekend. The two clubs will have their first Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason showdown in 10 years when the first game in their best-of-five semi-final round opens at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Tigers' home, Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers south of Seoul. The Twins are the defending Korean Series champions and they also won the 2023 title. They are trying to become the first team since the 2015-2016 Doosan Bears to capture back-to-back Korean Series titles. The Tigers were the 2024 Korean Series champions but missed the postseason in 2025. The Tigers will host the first two games, with the second game scheduled to start at 2 p.m. Sunday. The series will shift to the Twins' home turf, Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul, for Game 3 at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and, if necessary, Game 4 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. If the series goes the distance, the deciding fifth game will be back in Gwangju at 6:30 p.

Former Olympic champion Mima Ito has been dropped from Japan’s latest national table tennis squad, replaced by 28-year-old breakthrough player Hitomi Sato, who finished runner-up at the recent WTT China Smash. Across the border, meanwhile, followers of rival powerhouses China have focused their attention on widely circulated Chinese media reports that the Japan Table Tennis Association plans to dismantle the high-profile mixed-doubles pairing of Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto. Under the...

Melbourne have bounced back into form to take down the Tigers and put themselves in a strong position as finals football approaches.

Sydney FC and Western Sydney were left lamenting missed opportunities after the A-League Men rivals settled for a goalless draw to kick off the new campaign.

After an encouraging end to their season on the field, things have turned particularly sour off the field for the Blues, who now have two players suspended for the start of next season.

Six-time NBL MVP Bryce Cotton has produced some late magic to sink Tasmania, but coach Trevor Gleeson was not there to see it due to a five-year-old promise.

Keeley Nizza races past some soft Samoan defence in Australia's RLWC opener.

The Sydney Flames have overturned a 13-point deficit to beat a spirited Southside Melbourne Flyers in their first game of the WNBL season.

Samoan speedster Sua Fa'alogo scores his fourth try in the RLWC opener against France.

Hong Kong will host a World Fencing League event next year, bringing the sport’s best and brightest to the city for one day in April, sources have told the South China Morning Post. The brainchild of 2016 US Olympic team foil bronze medallist Miles Chamley-Watson, WFL staged its inaugural event in Los Angeles earlier this year, and featured the likes of Hong Kong’s Ryan Choi Chun-yin, who captained Team Shield. Sources said the league was being pencilled in for the penultimate week of April, a...

Brian To'o smashes a French player and Stephen Crichton picks up the loose ball to score.

Eight years after a dramatic reverse-swing arms race during the controversial 2018 tour of South Africa, conditions have brought the art form back to the fore.

On the bubble in the season-long points race, Australian golfer Grace Kim has moved into equal second at the LPGA Shanghai to boost her Tour Championship hopes.

West Coast fans have taken to social media to express their surprise at the club’s decision to de-list forward-ruck Jack Williams.

Giga Kick has won and finished second in his two Everest runs. Trainer Clayton Douglas says a soft track gives his veteran a chance to feature in the finish again.

Eight years after Sandpapergate, reverse swing is again playing a role in Australia’s Test series in South Africa, with old-ball movement a key to Josh Hazlewood’s first Test heroics and to the looming recall of Kagiso Rabada.

Samoan co-captain Jarome Luai and Junior Paulo lead a powerful Siva Tau during the pre-game against France.

The club told them they would not be offered contracts for 2027.