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• ‘They can say what they want’: Smith excited with Test captaincy return

  10-01-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Steve Smith is ready to again take on the second most important job in Australia.
  
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• Everton latest, transfer updates and FA Cup third round news: football – live

  10-01-2025 11:11
  
  All the latest before a busy weekend of FA Cup actionEmail David your thoughts | Sign up for Football DailySo what now for Everton? It looks like David Moyes is coming back. José Mourinho is not under consideration despite rumours. More here from the busy Andy Hunter.Although it’s hard to keep track of when ‘the FA Cup’s not what it was’ mutterings began, there’s still something about third-round weekend that fires the imagination. And as round three draws go
  
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• MLS apologises for announcing wrong Japanese player had joined Atlanta

  10-01-2025 11:06
  Website said Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi had joinedSigning was Cayman Togashi on free transferMajor League Soccer has apologised after saying Celtic’s Japanese forward Kyogo Furuhashi had signed for Atlanta United when in fact it was his compatriot Cayman Togashi who had joined the club.Atlanta had previously been linked with Furuhashi and on Wednesday MLS posted an article on its website saying the 29-year-old Japan international had completed a transfer. Continue reading...
  
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• Lisa Nandy rejects calls for England to boycott Afghanistan cricket match

  10-01-2025 10:56
  UK culture secretary says it should go ahead despite pressure for it to be cancelled over Taliban’s treatment of womenUK politics live – latest updatesEngland should be allowed to play next month’s cricket game against Afghanistan, the UK culture and sport secretary has said, despite calls for a boycott over the Taliban government’s treatment of women.Lisa Nandy on Friday backed a decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to allow the game to go ahead, saying
  
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• Football transfer rumours: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia heading for Liverpool?

  10-01-2025 10:51
  Today’s fluff comes sweet and clear as moonlight through the pinesLiverpool like the look of Napoli’s Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and are trying to hijack the winger’s proposed move to Paris St-Germain, with their offer potentially helped by the Italian club’s apparent interest in Anfield benchwarmer Federico Chiesa, though the Georgian “also features on the list of potential targets for teams like Chelsea”, claim the Athletic, who also add, less promisingly, that &
  
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• Adelaide International Highlights: Tommy Paul v Felix Auger-Aliassime

  10-01-2025 10:24 via theage.com.au
  
  Watch the match highlights between Tommy Paul & Felix Auger-Aliassime on Day 5 of the 2025 Adelaide International Tennis.
  
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• Japanese trainer splashes record $3.2m on filly at Magic Millions sale

  10-01-2025 10:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Mitsu Nakauchida broke the record of $2.8m, set a day earlier, for the Home Affairs-Sunlight filly at the yearling auction on the Gold Coast.
  
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• Sinner responds to Kyrgios criticism

  10-01-2025 09:08 via smh.com.au
  
  Jannik Sinner provides a simple response to Nick Kyrgios' criticism of his doping case.
  
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• Petracca suffers another internal injury

  10-01-2025 09:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Star Demon Christian Petracca has suffered an injury setback, after scans revealed he has a cracked rib after a training mishap.
  
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• More Petracca pain: Luckless Demons superstar’s fresh injury shock

  10-01-2025 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The gun midfielder’s latest injury came after a knock at Demons training on Friday at Casey Fields.
  
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• NFL wildcard weekend predictions: how the Steelers can pull off a miracle at the Ravens

  10-01-2025 09:00
  
  The weekend promises a heap of drama in the NFC as the 14-3 Vikings meet LA, while in the AFC a pair of underdogs attempt to stage heistsWhat the Chargers need to do to win: The league’s stingiest defense cannot afford the complacency that allowed Tampa Bay to rain 40 points down on them in December. The Chargers’ stats look good – they gave up the fewest touchdowns (31) in the regular season, including 18 on 39 red-zone drives, a league-leading efficiency mark of 46% – b
  
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• Graham Potter’s task is to put human heart back in West Ham’s gormless machine | Jonathan Liew

  10-01-2025 09:00
  
  After Hollywood farce of Chelsea and two years out of game, rags-to-riches manager has seized chance to join ‘family club’Remember Angrygate? For a few surreal days in February 2023, pretty much the entire talking apparatus of English football was engaged – as is its habit – in a fevered, earnest and yet entirely fatuous debate about whether Graham Potter was angry enough to be the Chelsea manager.Under an increasingly persistent line of questioning, Potter coped pretty w
  
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• Chess: newly-married Carlsen signs up with Bundesliga, Freestyle and Saudis

  10-01-2025 09:00
  The World No 1, who wed Ella Victoria Malone last Saturday, will play for St Pauli in the Bundesliga, where he may meet the new classical champion, Gukesh DommarajuMagnus Carlsen, the 34-year-old world No 1 and candidate for the greatest of all time, married Ella Victoria Mallone last Saturday in Oslo, where the congregation included a film crew from Netflix. The new Mrs Carlsen, 26, was born in Hong Kong to a Norwegian mother and an American father, was educated in the US, the UK and Canad
  
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• Novak Djokovic won’t back away from hotel detention ‘poisoning’ claims

  10-01-2025 08:44 via smh.com.au
  
  The 10-time Australian Open champion refused to back down from claims he made in a magazine interview that he was “poisoned” by the food he ingested in Melbourne detention three years ago.
  
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• Petracca cracks rib during pre-season training as injury woes continue

  10-01-2025 08:40 via abc.net.au
  
  Melbourne superstar Christian Petracca suffers a cracked rib during AFL pre-season training session, setting back his bid to recover from last season's horror injury.
  
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• Australian Open 2025: Sabalenka, Zverev and Andreeva to feature on day one

  10-01-2025 08:39 via theage.com.au
  
  Take a look back at what the biggest names in tennis said as they approached the first round of the Australian Open.
  
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• Race-by-race preview and tips for Saturday meeting at Wyong

  10-01-2025 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Everything you need to know to make your selections for NSW’s premier Saturday meeting
  
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• Adelaide International Highlights: Arevalo & Pavic v Bolelli & Vavassori

  10-01-2025 07:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Watch the match highlights between Arevalo & Pavic & Bolelli & Vavassori on Day 5 of the 2025 Adelaide International Tennis.
  
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• Novak Djokovic’s claim he ate ‘poisoned’ food in 2022 Melbourne hotel detention ‘possible but very unlikely’, experts say

  10-01-2025 07:36
  Doubt cast on tennis former world number one’s comments in GQ interview as debate reopens about handling of visa sagaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastExperts have cast doubt on Novak Djokovic’s claim that he was “poisoned” by the food he ate in hotel immigration detention during his Australian Open visa saga, suggesting it is possible but unlikely.Interviews with the former world number one ah
  
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• Adelaide International Highlights: Madison Keys v Liudmila Samsonova

  10-01-2025 07:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Watch the match highlights between Madison Keys & Liudmila Samsonova on Day 5 of the 2025 Adelaide International Tennis.
  
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• Australian Open 2025: Djokovic won’t back down from poisoning claims, says focus is now on-court

  10-01-2025 07:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Take a look back at what the biggest names in tennis said as the first round of the Australian Open draws closer.
  
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• Australian Open 2025 LIVE: Djokovic won’t back down from poisoning claims, says focus is now on-court

  10-01-2025 07:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Hear from the biggest names in tennis today with the countdown on to the Australian Open. Get all the latest from Melbourne Park here.
  
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• Australian Open 2025 LIVE: Swiatek opens up on ‘the worst time’ in her life; Djokovic’s surprise question for Zverev

  10-01-2025 06:35 via theage.com.au
  
  Hear from the biggest names in tennis today with the countdown on to the Australian Open. Get all the latest from Melbourne Park here.
  
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• The bold move that saved spinner’s Test career in fight to succeed Lyon

  10-01-2025 06:24 via smh.com.au
  
  A three-way fight has seemingly emerged to one day replace ‘the GOAT’, and one man’s bold move has put himself firmly in that frame.
  
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• Adelaide International Highlights: Heliovaara & Patten v Krawietz & Puetz

  10-01-2025 06:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Watch the match highlights between Heliovaara & Patten & Krawietz & Puetz on Day 5 of the 2025 Adelaide International Tennis.
  
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• Adelaide International Highlights: Haddad Maia & Siegemund v Guo & Panova

  10-01-2025 06:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Watch the match highlights between Haddad Maia & Siegemund & Guo & Panova on Day 5 of the 2025 Adelaide International Tennis.
  
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• Australian Open 2025 LIVE: ‘The worst time in my life’, Swiatek opens up on doping scandal

  10-01-2025 06:08 via smh.com.au
  
  Hear from the biggest names in tennis today with the countdown on to the Australian Open. Get all the latest from Melbourne Park here.
  
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• World Sports Photography Awards 2025 winners revealed – in pictures

  10-01-2025 06:00
  The World Sports Photography Awards are the only global awards for sport photography and are designed to recognise and celebrate incredible sports images and the photographers who take them. More than 2,200 professional sports photographers from over 96 countries submitted more than 13,000 images across the 24 categories to this year’s competition, which all tell compelling stories of the emotion, passion, athleticism and focus that are at the heart of sport Continue reading...
  
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• Why Jannik Sinner won’t bite back at Nick Kyrgios’ barbs

  10-01-2025 05:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Daniil Medvedev, who lost last year’s Australian Open final to Jannik Sinner, said it would be interesting to see “the energy” if Sinner and the Australian crossed paths.
  
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• Nervous 9999s: Steve Smith rues milestone miss as he backs teenage tyro to be a hit

  10-01-2025 05:48
  
  35-year-old one run short of 10,000 Test runs ahead of Sri Lanka tourAustralia stand-in captain to guide Sam Konstas to play his own waySteve Smith has conceded he thought “too much” about reaching the 10,000 Test runs milestone against India before falling one run short in the fifth Test. The stand-in captain will head to Sri Lanka needing a single to join Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh in an exclusive Australian cricket club.Smith, famously fidgety and a poor sleeper d
  
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