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Re-appointed Queensland Super Rugby coach Ewen McKenzie believes Quade Cooper’s injury-delayed start to 2012 could help him through a difficult player recruitment period this season. The Reds at the weekend …

The New England Patriots and New York Giants booked a rematch of their dramatic 2008 Super Bowl showdown with tense playoff triumphs on Sunday to reach next month’s NFL championship …

Jose Mourinho shrugged off the whistles of the Real Madrid crowd on Sunday after reports emerged he was facing a player revolt. Sports daily Marca claimed the combustible Portuguese coach …

Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag says the Indian captaincy won’t change his daredevil batting style. Sehwag will captain India for the fourth time in a Test when the battered tourists meet …

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp launched a blistering attack on Mario Balotelli after he appeared to stamp on Spurs midfielder Scott Parker during Manchester City’s 3-2 victory on Sunday. Controversial Italian …

Petra Kvitova might be endorsed as the true No.1 in women’s tennis by her childhood idol but it’s still a topic she wants nothing to do with. Kvitova on Monday …

Black Caviar could face one of the biggest fields of her career in the Group Two Australia Stakes following unexpected interest in taking on the unbeaten champion. For much of …

Brisbane coach Ange Postecoglou senses his players are close to recapturing their deadly championship-winning form heading towards possibly the tightest finals series in A-League history. “I’ve got a sneaking suspicion …

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has declared current world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki unworthy of the top ranking and condemned the system that put her there. “Clearly nobody feels that Wozniacki is …

Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan revealed he called Wests Tigers’ bluff in a bid to ensure Andrew Fifita would become a Sharks player in 2012. Having lost key front-rowers Luke Douglas …

Their past meetings might be a convenient haze but Agnieszka Radwanska doesn’t need details before she heads into her Australian Open quarter-final against Victoria Azarenka. Radwanska is well aware she …

Evergreen batsman Ricky Ponting has a lot of Test cricket left in him, Australian captain Michael Clarke says. Ponting’s revival in the series against India has Clarke maintaining the Tasmanian …

It hasn’t quite taken on full-scale “bodyline” proportions, but the Australian Open quarter-final between Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych still has a whiff of one of cricket’s greatest controversies about …

Tour Down Under organisers want to make another major change to the course next year as the Adelaide race becomes less of a sprinter’s domain. The Queen stage at Willunga …

Tasmanian George Bailey is the new Australian Twenty20 captain replacing Cameron White, who has been cut from the squad to face India in two matches next month. The other major …

Britain’s Andy Murray needed only to appear on court at Rod Laver Arena to make it into his fifth successive grand slam quarter-final on Monday. Murray, the fourth seed, took …

Australia’s new rotation policy has faced its first major test and has been dismissed as quickly as India’s openers have been this summer. Under the policy announced two weeks ago, …

American Mark Wilson is off to another fast start on the PGA Tour, holding off an abundance of challengers in an extended Sunday to capture the $US5.6 million ($A5.4 million) …