30/08/2008 | VISIONARY studmaster John Messara is used to taking risks.
30/08/2008 | FORMER England captain, Mike Atherton, has taken aim at the current crop of world cricketers who have boycotted touring Pakistan causing the ICC Champions Trophy to be postponed.
30/08/2008 | AT least one big bookie has a million reasons to believe star of the turf Weekend Hussler can be beaten in today's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.
Sportsbet's Matthew Tripp is prepared to stan...
30/08/2008 | The most praised coach in the world versus the most vilified. World-class players with experience versus the "fresh legs" of the game. How will they compare when it matters the most?
30/08/2008 | John McEnroe, the bad boy of tennis, has grown up; really. But that doesn't mean he isn't complicated. NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF reports.
30/08/2008 | IT IS hard to know which is less likely - the Springboks losing three in a row at home or the Wallabies winning two in a row away from home. Surely the Wallabies cannot win tonight
29/08/2008 | The Northern Pride are today sweating on a fitness test of their chief playmaker, Chris Sheppard, as they prepare to take on minor premiers Ipswich.
29/08/2008 | New Gold Coast A-League club coach promises he won't pinch Roar players.
29/08/2008 | CLYDE RATHBONE has admitted that he was "playing on one leg" from 2005-06 and should not have been picked for the Wallabies.
29/08/2008 | It's all hush-hush at the moment, but expect a strong push from within the Wallabies camp to convince the Australian Rugby Union of the merits of allowing overseas-based players to appear for the national team on long overseas tours.
29/08/2008 | THE Wallabies are hoping the second wind will be enough for them to achieve a historical feat against the Springboks at Ellis Park on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | As the Rocky Elsom judicial farce continued, the Wallabies were forced to train with two different forward combinations at their final training session late last night while awaiting a decision on whether their backrower had won his appeal and could play against the Springboks on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | "SOAP opera," an AFL chief once informed me, "is about the only thing rugby league does better than us" - a reference to the daily column inches and air time devoted to dramas in the codes.
29/08/2008 | JUST minutes after watching his side turn in their best display of an impressive 2008 NRL season last Friday night, Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart sat alongside skipper Paul Gallen and Greg Bird and talked about the positive feeling within the Sharks camp.
29/08/2008 | Bennett takes diligent approach Leading driver Greg Bennett will need all his skill if he is to win his first Chariots Of Fire at Harold Park on Friday night with Be Diligent in the group 1 featur...
29/08/2008 | John Messara told an enthusiastic crowd at Arrowfield Stud in Scone on Monday to expect "The King" to make a major comeback to the top of the Australian stallions' chart.
The King, bet...
29/08/2008 | THE regally bred dam of untapped colt Dreamscape now resides in the Philippines, but Ashikaga's mother Tropical Dancer is roaming around Mudgee.
The tale of Gooree Stud's two producers giv...
29/08/2008 | Dr Geoff Chapman maintains he was offered $100,000 by John Messara to deter Messara's son, Paul, from a career training racehorses. Perhaps the Doc was having, as we say in the trade, a quiet run, but it was one of the few commissions from which he didn't get favourable results.
29/08/2008 | A rousing first-up performance from Gallant Tess has trainer David Payne eyeing off Saturday's $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill. The former champion South African trainer will start Stripper, B...
29/08/2008 | Gai Waterhouse: Enjoyed a great day at Warwick Farm last weekend when leading in four winners and is out to repeat the effort at Rosehill on Saturday. Waterhouse saddles up the unbeaten Ashikaga in t...