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) …

Tough-talking bridesmaid Caroline Wozniacki has suddenly changed tack for her Australian Open quarter-final with wounded titleholder Kim Clijsters on Tuesday. Defence has been Wozniacki’s best form of attack during her …