There is an opening for the position of skipper for the Gold Coast Suns as Gary Ablett has abdicated the post after meeting with Coach Rodney Eade. Ablett had requested a trade to the Geelong Cats, but the Suns nixed that idea, even though they were, or perhaps for the very reason that they wanted…

Prodigy or not, the North Queensland Cowboys have declined to allow Kaylyn Ponga an early release to the Newcastle Knights. The Knights obviously need the help Ponga could supply, along with a healthy helping of more, but they will have to wait until 2018 for Ponga to begin year one of his four-year deal, which…

Some fairly competent professional golfers came together in the week following the Australian Open to play a team event known as the World Cup of Golf at Kingston Heath in the suburban districts of southeast Melbourne. The event was won by two blokes from Denmark (Denmarkians?), Soren Kjeldsen and Thorbjorn Olesen, who went into the…

Mumm’s the word as the Wallabies brace for a lineout assault courtesy of the Irish this weekend. Mumm, not mum, as in Dean Mumm. He is replacing Lopeti Timani in the backrow on the top side, which is the only non-injury change to the lineup that fared well against Scotland a couple of weeks back….

On paper, it looks like an even proposition. On grass, the well-manicured variety that professional golfers demand for their game, it might be otherwise. The World Cup of Golf foursomes competition will pit the team of Adam Scott and Marc Leishman, who could be called the Anyplace But Rio Duet, will take on Rickie Fowler…

NFL fans in Mexico City enjoyed a fiesta atmosphere as the National Football League staged a Monday Night Football game in the country south of the border for the first time in 2005. It may be the last time, unless the NFL players are as adept at scaling walls as they are at performing impromptu-choreographed…

Andy Murray cemented his status as the number one tennis player in the world, a ranking he will carry over the holidays until the new season begins in 2017 by virtue of a rather dominant 6 – 3, 6 – 4 victory over Novak Djokovic, who could have wrested away the prestigious season-ending number one…

One inescapable conclusion of the influx of Australian punters into the major U.S. college ranks of the NCAA and from there to the NFL is that fewer punts are being returned and for a much lower yards-per-return average. Aussies who earned their kicking boots on rugby and Aussie rules grounds have changed the special teams…

When is an award not really an award, but an afterthought? Of late, the International Olympic Committee was stripping medals away from athletes found to have been using banned substances in the 2008 Beijing Games, catching the perpetrators with improved testing methods applied to samples that are stored for 10 years. Many other sporting events…

LeBron James, in what could be characterized as an expected retort to Phil Jackson’s recent less-than-complimentary characterization of James’ insatiable thirst for “respect,” did not dispute the allegation that he demanded or was entitled to special treatment, but instead took issue with Jackson’s use of the word “posse” to describe James’ desire to hang out…