One bright spot in Australia’s less-than-expected Rio 2016 Summer Olympics campaign is the good performances by members of the sailing contingent. Tom Burton has secured a medal of some kind, which he hopes to conjure into gold when his final race, which had to be rescheduled due to a lack of wind, takes place. Odd…

The finals talk is premature, according to Melbourne Demons Coach Paul Roos. Coaches are notorious for trying to set the bar low, but there is an outside possibility of the Demons making their first finals in ten years. They will meet Carlton in round 22, but things get a bit darker from there as they…

Round 21 of the 2016 AFL season is in the books, with form more or less intact. The Western Bulldogs can breathe a sigh of relief after surviving a scare from the Collingwood Magpies where the difference was three behinds and the final score 95 – 92. The Brisbane Lions and the Carlton Blues also…

Trainer Chris Waller recently revealed that his prize galloper Winx needed a minor surgical procedure to remove a small bone chip to her near fore fetlock. The procedure took place in early April after Waller decided to hold Winx out of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes out of Waller’s concern for not running her so soon…

Slayer of giants Mitchell Moses is moving on from Johnathan Thurston and has schemes to ground Jarryd Hayne when the in-form Wests Tigers five-eighth lines up across from Hayne when they play the Gold Coast Titans. The Titans need a good showing not only from Hayne, but from the rest of the squad as well,…

It could be a case of one too many Nathans when it comes to Newcastle coach Nathan Brown saying that Nathan Cleary does not stand to benefit from talk of Cleary becoming the long-term solution to the position of halfback for NSW at Origin level, but Brown was quick to praise the youngster’s recent performance…

Forty-six-year-old Jim Furyk, several years past his peak golf, shot the lowest round in PGA Tour history when he managed a 58 in the fourth round of the Travelers Championship on Sunday at the TPC River Highlands course in Connecticut. Furyk has been known to go low before, producing a 59 in 2013 that was…

It took 10 years, but the Melbourne Demons would say that the 14th time’s the charm after they took down the defending premier Hawthorn Hawks 110 – 81 on Saturday, surprising themselves along with the 39,000 spectators in the MCG. The Richmond Tigers beat the Collingwood Magpies 92 – 77 in one of the who…

V8 Supercars series leader Jamie Whincup will be driving a new car when the race at Sydney Motorsports Park gets underway. Whincup is attempting to win his seventh title in the series with a new chassis from Red Bull Racing and a total overhaul in the next couple of weeks. His teammates Shane van Gisbergen…

When Andrew Bogut recently expressed some reservations about his accommodations in the athletes’ village for the Rio Olympics, including a bed too short for his height, he may have been justifiably miffed after learning that his fellow NBA stars representing the U.S. will be housed aboard a luxury cruise ship named the Silver Cloud docked…