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The Cleveland Cavaliers let LeBron bolt to join the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cavs have started the season with a six-game duck, which has cost Tyronn Lue his job. The club has installed Larry Drew as an interim coach, but that is not the storyline Drew is putting forth. “I am not the interim…

The Wallabies have three Tests coming along following the dismal Bledisloe Cup whitewash at the hands of the Kiwis. Might it be time for the All Blacks to find new victims? At any rate, the Green and Gold is off north to play Wales, Italy and England, commencing on 10 November and concluding on 24…

Australia Sweep Pakistan with 89 – Run Win, read the headline that caught our eye. What’s this then? Most of the cricket news that comes our way involves players getting into pub brawls, applying abrasive substances to balls, chasing impossible targets in lost causes or manifesting brain fades that would be unimaginable from the greenest…

The Winx effect that brings the throngs to Randwick made an appearance in the NBL, although it is hard to attribute the NBL’s record setting first round entirely to Andrew Bogut. The previous record dated to 1995, so something is afoot. Almost 50,000 turned out to watch first round action with the prize for largest…

After all the attention he attracted during the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament as a representative for France’s national side, Kylian Mbappe has discovered that the limelight is to his liking. He was again a teenage prodigy when he netted four times for his Paris Saint-Germain side delivered a 5 – 0 sledging to Lyon…

Rumours of the All Blacks demise have run rampant for years, but have yet to come to fruition. Those rumours may indeed become the truth at some point, at which time those responsible can claim clairvoyance. The Coach of Argentina is one to place New Zealand in his crosshairs, with claims that the world’s best…

While it often seems as though the slimmest of Australian connections is all that it takes to earn Socceroo consideration, Martin Boyle’s discovery that his father was born in Australia if a bona fide qualification. Boyle plays in Scotland with Socceroos Mark Milligan and Jamie Maclaren and is now a target for scouting by Graham…

There are those who so badly crave attention that they behave badly, on the principle that even bad publicity is superior to no publicity. In the age where status is determined by the number of “likes” and the number of “followers,” the old Andy Warhol adage about everyone having 15 minutes of fame has shrunk…

Ash Barty is bringing some metal home to Australia as she paired with CoCo Vandeweghe to win the women’s doubles at the 2018 U.S. Open in New York. Barty and Vandeweghe beat the doubles champs from the Australian Open, Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic, winning a tense match that required multiple tiebreakers. It was Barty’s…

With a 3 – 1 lead in his pocket, 33 years on his clock and his third child about to arrive, England’s Alastair Cook took the 3s as an omen that it was time to call time on his international cricket career. He will still play for his county side, Essex, but after 160 Test…