Daily Brisbane Sports News
- 'Sponge' bags opening with Westwood
- New coaching brigade sure to turn A-League on its head
- Banjo, Fred and Alan came at the game from different angles
- Miata, Black Caviar two of a kind
- Treuer to get marching orders
- Despite one-day snub, Ponting not prepared to pull up stumps yet
- Magic coach wary of falling prey to avenging Eagles
- Rocket takes on Missile challenge
- The kids are all right, as girl power threatens to take over
- Arnold breathes easy after passing test
- Gai's dark horse brings in Jewel while creaming More Strawberries
- Invest sworn in as top Oaks contender
- Raiders look the goods for Stradbroke
- Brazill back but mentor thinks only of fighting a familiar foe
- Davo blues over Slade hit
- Stoner has earned the right to slow things down a bit
- The flying Kangaroos
- Australians face barrage of dope tests
- Dame not up to cups
- Track comes under fire
- Track gets blame for falls drama
- Clarke unfazed by wedding critics
- Cricketer bailed on assault
- Meet Mr 55: 12 birdies, two eagles and one lawn to mow
- Henry puts his house on a return to London
- Bargain buy Tinszelda looks just fine to Northam
- Martin loves to excel in the saddle
- Moody to repel Kiwi challenge in a brilliant Doomben Cup
- Snowden set for another helping of Scone's jam
- Bak blooms at 32, wins first grand tour stage
- Doohan won't rule out star rider's return
- One-time Irish dancer keeps her feet firmly on the pound
- Rivals ready in roster race for top talent
- Vodafone mute on a move into V8s
- Why Stoner is the best of this generation despite doing it his way
- London rained kippers at Games fit for their times
- Slugfest to spark in Munich
- Lismore ace toast of golf with 55
- Britain backs down on doping
- Powers that be need to use their heads
- No great escape for Cats this time as Magpies take points in rematch
- Pomersbach on sexual assault charges
- WA cricketer Luke Pomersbach arrested in India
- Casey Stoner: the no-nonsense champion who has always done things his way
- Dad's army take scenic route to Brisbane carnival riches
- Gun Tommy wants more cream with Strawberries
- Lass and Lynette to open Freedman-Rogerson book
- Manighar to join pantheon of greats
- Thommo still burns with hunger for winners
- Eliza Park conquers all with son of Mossman
- Mundine's shot at US lands little lower than Pretty Boy
- Popovic vows to deliver 'good brand' to west
- Bichel out but favours a former international
- Punters only have eyes for Manighar
- Late starter Trengove's early chance
- Mundine's got Game - and maybe Snoop Dogg too
- Shinn cops ban after dangerous race ride
- Shinn banned for 'dangerous' ride
- Trainer's second coming
- Go west: Popovic to coach new Sydney side
- Five IPL players suspended over no-ball fixing allegations
- Gossip mags caught behind as Clarke says 'I do' in secret
- Games chief vows to fight budget cut
- Pup ties the knot
- Popovic to coach Western Sydney
- The madness of Mike
- Five IPL players suspended over corruption claims
- Athlete's expenses and funding are poles apart
- No favours for Cup, RVL tells locals
- City contrite for Tevez taunt
- Herd joins Socceroos
- Debt and regret
- Osieck plays it safe with Cup squad
- Doping ban ends Olympic dream
- Doping ban ends Elmir's dream
- Mankini bet traps Olympic shooter
- Confusion reigns over Stradbroke handicaps
- Easy Ryder: Hesjedal in the pink but faces a gruelling race ahead
- Record-setter Groth quick to raise game
- 'Noisy neighbours' have key to the city
- Carney in driver's seat to put Blues on right track
- Overseas stayers fetching a premium
- Slings and arrows: Olympic archers battle it out in court
- Rival's father targeted me for harassment: Olympic hopeful
- Australian Ice Hockey League wrap: week three
- Crook to be named new Sydney FC coach
- Black Caviar's 21st was all about teamwork on track
- English can't wait to see superstar in the flesh
- Martin heads home with a star on the rise
- Waterhouse closing on Waller - what odds a photo finish?
- Mawingo on trial for cups
- Front runner for London carries weight of the nation
- Swifts show some steel to seal close win
- Caviar whets UK tastes
- Sky Blues prepared to end lengthy search by promoting Crook to top job
- Gamble on two penalties spurs dramatic turnaround
- Maldonado gives Williams cause to cheer
- Weighing the past and the present a vital link to the future
- Winning is all that matters, declares Moody
- Hackett hurt by party-boy portrayal
Mike Waite spent nearly 30 years caddying for many masters including Rodger Davis, Ian Baker-Finch, Michael Campbell, who won the 2005 US Open while he was on the bag, Craig Parry and Stephen Leaney. During his second stint with Robert Allenby - who would never get a nomination for a player-caddie relationship - he was sacked. "It was the first time I've ever been sacked," said Waite, universally known in the golfing world as Sponge, not for his ability to absorb strong drink like many among the caddie ranks but because of his tight-knit hair.
Don't look now, but football in Australia just changed shape, right from its very DNA. You won't see it until late next season or more likely the following year, but a change in the game is coming, borne of a new generation of coaches with a different view of the game and its foundational methodology.
Big punters of the past were dwarfed by Alan Woods, who spiced his action with Filipino bar girls and ecstasy. Woods, from Murwillumbah, struck gold as a principal player in syndicates looting the Hong Kong exotics. Playing numbers, not horses, and using a computer system, Woods notched nearly $1 billion, according to The Australian Financial Review last year.
The stars have aligned for the Sandown Greyhound Racing Club. On Thursday, it will hold the richest staying race in the country and have the incomparable Miata as its drawcard. The Western Australia-trained champion sliced a remarkable 0.37 seconds or nearly six lengths from the record held by Lady Arko, running an extraordinary 41.17 seconds. The win was the daughter of Bombastic Shiraz's 15th in a row and she has remained unbeaten since her breeder-trainer Paul Stuart, 27, stepped the red-fawn bitch up to a staying distance.
The NSW Harness Racing Club is set to flex its muscle to force a move of the time-honoured Treuer Memorial at Bankstown from its traditional December date to March next year.
RICKY PONTING says he paid the ultimate price as an international one-day player because he put the national team ahead of himself, and the former Australia skipper is adamant he could still offer a lot to the team that was picked to tour Ireland and England next month.
BROADMEADOW coach Damien Smith is preparing his side for what he believes will be its toughest football game of the season, hosting Edgeworth at the Wanderers Oval today.
HIS swim times say it even if he's not prepared to yet - James ''The Rocket'' Roberts is gunning for James ''The Missile'' Magnussen in what is shaping up to be an historic Australian medal shoot-out in the 100m freestyle at the London Olympics.
Female riders are having a huge influence in the country apprentices' premiership this season. Five of the top 10 are young women, headed by Rachael Murray, who has 51 wins, second only to the runaway leader, Leeton's John Kissick (70). Kayla Nisbet (33 wins) is fourth and Samantha Munro, Alison Threadwell and Jessica Drury are also in the top 10. Kissick, meanwhile, has been on fire recently with trebles at Leeton last Saturday (Tediz, Iza Star, Mrs Menzies) and Albury on Monday (Price Of Glory, It Pays To Look, Ceccanti). Kissick has been gaining rave reviews from leading Southern Districts trainers and owners, many believing he can follow in the footsteps of the likes of Brad Clark and make his mark in Sydney. The chasm between country and city riders is evident in prizemoney returns. Kissick's mounts have earned $587,030; Sydney's leading prizemoney rider, Nash Rawiller, has $8.47 mi
Racing NSW stewards ordered apprentice Shane Arnold to front up at Scone yesterday as officials breath-tested all riders on the second day of the hugely successful cup carnival. Arnold had only one ride and rang to inform stewards he couldn't make the second race, due to a traffic jam. ''You strike traffic in Sydney, I didn't think you struck traffic at Muswellbrook,'' chief steward Ray Murrihy said. Arnold arrived and was tested and, like all riders, passed, while Murrihy said: ''We also took six urine samples from jockeys and they'll be sent for testing of banned substances.''
GAI WATERHOUSE once again left punters reeling as the stunning Saturday sequence of winners continued when the trainer took out yesterday's Dark Jewel Classic at Scone.
SYDNEY trainer Clarry Conners admitted to nearly swearing in the grandstand at jockey Peter Mertens during yesterday's $175,000 The Roses at Doomben.
SYDNEYSIDERS Mental and Tiger Tees emerged as lightweight chances in the $1 million Stradbroke after dashing wins.
FRIENDS will become foes for 60 minutes as NSW Swifts captain Kimberlee Green hosts her former pupil Ashleigh Brazill and the West Coast Fever today.
A SHAKEN and furious Will Davison has hit out at fellow driver Tim Slade, adamant the Stone Brothers driver knowingly pushed him wide at turn three, sparking a horrifying collision with Jamie Whincup that ended both drivers' races and was just centimetres from disaster.
Casey Stoner's supposedly ''shock announcement'' during the week that he will retire from MotoGP at the end of this season should not come as too much of a surprise - he has long maintained he wouldn't hang around too long. Stoner relishes life on the farm, fishing and being with his family. It's the simple, homely stuff that looms large when the passion for riding wanes. And let's not forget that motorcycle racing is a dangerous environment. Riders, even good ones, die. Or are maimed.
With 20 times their weight jarring down at every jump, Australia's sandpit stars need cotton-wool training before the Games, writes Daniel Lane.
Multi-pronged doping blitz puts Australia's top athletes under unprecedented surveillance.
Trainer Pat Carey says winter staying races rarely yield spring cup winners.
Two horses die at Flemington meeting, and two jockeys suffer falls.
Two horses killed and leading apprentice taken to hospital after a fall.
MICHAEL CLARKE is well aware of criticism coming his way for not inviting his teammates to his surprise wedding during the week to Kyly Boldy.
Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach, facing charges of molestation and assault in India, says he will fight the charges that have derailed his return to cricket.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM always dreamed of the perfect round of golf. She called it ''Vision 54'' - a birdie on each of the 18 holes - but the closest the now retired Swedish superstar went was a 13-under 59.
City (almost) choke but win it, United win but lose it, QPR lose but stay up, Bolton draw but go down ? Panthers slay the Dragons in the mountains ? Sydney FC feeling Crook ? Sharks survive the Storm ? Tahs loss is a load of Bull-(dust) ? Carney ready to save NSW.
DODGY front legs weren't a concern for Scone trainer Rodney Northam, whose confidence in Tinszelda was justified when the juvenile carted off yesterday's $100,000 Inglis Challenge on his home track.
TIM MARTIN hasn't needed to jump on today's Scone Guineas favourite Pampelonne but not so the Gerry Harvey-owned Love Excels.
THE good gamble card, particularly with Manighar, comes into play at today's outstanding Doomben meeting, where strong credentials are generally matched with short odds, prompting the question: unders or overs?
DARLEY STUD head trainer Peter Snowden has the chance today at Scone to win a couple of home-town features for the second year in a row.
SESTRI LEVANTE, Italy: Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez retained the Giro d'Italia's race leader's pink jersey after Thursday's 12th stage, won by Denmark's Lars Bak.
FIVE-TIME MotoGP champion Mick Doohan says Casey Stoner will go down as one of the greatest riders in world championship history, and believes the 26-year-old may be tempted to change his mind about retiring.
UNTIL a few years ago, Clare Geraghty was more likely to break into a reel, slip or jig than a sprint or jog.
Ian Crook wants new strikers, but Tony Popovic needs a whole team.
TEAM VODAFONE boss Roland Dane has refused to speculate on the driving future of Casey Stoner, who has been linked to a move to V8 Supercars after announcing his retirement from MotoGP yesterday.
FOR most people it came as a shock. But to those looking closely the signs were there.
THERE was the daily diet of kippered herrings. The incessant rain that made the running track a soggy mess. And the climax to the cut-price opening ceremony when the release of 10,000 pigeons sent the crowd running for cover.
There will be no snore-draw - Chelsea and Bayern Munich are desperate for victory.
Rhein Gibson is now the talk of the golfing world after a 16-under 55 in Oklahoma.
Track and field athlete Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar can now compete.
IF you didn't see the Four Corners program ''Hard Knocks'' on ABC last Monday night, you should have. It was a devastating profile of the terrible damage that can be done when concussion is ignored. A large part of it focused on Steve Devine, who played 10 Tests for the All Blacks, and would likely have played many more bar a series of devastating knocks he took which finished his career.
IT wasn't the grand final replay in any sense. Whereas the 2011 finale featured three scintillating quarters and a final quarter rout by the Cats, this match was a low-standard contest that ended with a dramatic victory by the team that was vanquished in that one day in October.
New Delhi: West Australian cricketer Luke Pomersbach has appeared in court in New Delhi after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman then beating her fiance, at a party at a five-star hotel.
WA cricketer Luke Pomersbach has reportedly been charged with assault in India following an incident at a party in Bangalore.
For most people it came as a shock. But to those looking closely the signs were there.
THIS is a great comeback story. Not one but three - horse, jockey and trainer-cum-foreman Len Morton.
GAI WATERHOUSE and Tulloch Lodge's No.2 jockey Tommy Berry are in scintillating form. Waterhouse and Berry continued their winning run at Canterbury on Wednesday and are out to plunder tomorrow's stand-alone meeting at Scone.
The partnership between Hall of Fame trainers Lee Freedman and Graeme Rogerson could land its first official winner at Scone today. Dats A Lass goes around in the class one having been scratched from Canterbury on Wednesday. ''I thought she could win on Wednesday but I thought we'd go for the better prizemoney,'' Freedman said. ''I'm pleased with the horse, she won a trial the other day in quick time.'' The Freedman-Rogerson combo return to Scone tomorrow with new acquisition Lady Lynette, which was in the Brunton stable down south, in the Dark Jewel Classic. ''It is a shocking draw [14],'' Freedman said. ''I got her from the saleyard but she hasn't been out of work. She had a soft trial last week and is pretty forward. The Lady Lynette of Melbourne would be right in it. Any mare that can win 14 races is a good type and she still loves [racing].''
Enhanced by the Peter Moody-Luke Nolen factor, Manighar, once a European plodder, promises to maintain the strength of the Doomben Cup as one of Australia's best and most charismatic races.
THOSE who doubted Robert Thompson had a future in racing wouldn't have thought the national champion would ride at Lae in Papua New Guinea.
Eliza Park's announcement this week of its bold move to establish a breeding division in Queensland received a tremendous boost with the news it had bought one of the country's best sprinters, Love Conquers All, as its foremost stallion for this season. Eliza Park takes over the proven Racetree nursery at Innisplain to give the stud breeding divisions in Kerrie, Victoria, and Gold Coast hinterland.
ANTHONY MUNDINE admits he was on the verge of giving up on his ambition to fight in the US as well as granting Danny Green a rematch when he received the offer to fight Bronco McKart in Las Vegas on July 14.
TONY POPOVIC might have never coached a professional match in his life but at noon yesterday, Football Federation Australia handed over the keys to the vehicle that could make or break the A-League.
Andy Bichel rules himself out of contention to be Australia's next bowling coach.
Former English galloper has firmed from $4 to $2.40 to win Doomben Cup.
JESS TRENGOVE thought she was a chance to go to Rio in 2016. A young and promising distance runner, her Olympic dream was focused on South America.
Anthony Mundine is set to work with Jeff Fenech ahead of his first US fight and hopes to have rap stars Game and Snoop Dogg in his corner for the July 14 bout with former WBO light middleweight champion Bronco McKart at The Palms in Las Vegas
TROUBLED jockey Blake Shinn was deemed by Racing NSW stewards to have placed rival Brenton Avdulla ''in severe danger on two occasions'' in a rough-house race at Canterbury yesterday.
Troubled jockey deemed by Racing New South Wales stewards to have placed rival Brenton Avdulla 'in severe danger on two occasions' in a rough-house race at Canterbury.
It may be fitting that a horse named Second Effort is establishing a winning streak as the football season intensifies.
THE A-League's western Sydney club will make its first official signing today with Tony Popovic finally agreeing to join the club as their inaugural manager.
DELHI: Five Indian Premier League players have been suspended from cricket as fresh fixing allegations hit the game and threatened to further tarnish a competition already dogged by controversy.
ANNOUNCED on Twitter - to groans of despair from magazine editors - Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and his girlfriend Kyly Boldy wed in secret in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday.
THE Australian Olympic Committee's chef de mission, Nick Green, has hit back at the federal government's plan to cut sports funding and is prepared to fight its decision on his return from the Olympics.
Australian Cricketer Michael Clarke married Kyly Boldy, an Australian model, yesterday.
Tony Popovic has finally made his decision - he'll be coaching the new Western Sydney A-League team next season.
Mike Tyson has gone from boxing's wild child to devoted family man. But he still has to work on his temper, he tells Celia Walden in an interview
New Delhi: Five Indian Premier League players have been suspended from cricket as fresh fixing allegations hit the game and threatened to further tarnish a competition already dogged by controversy.
Nicole Kyriakopoulou is among several of Greece's London Olympics-bound athletes hamstrung by lack of funds and decrepit facilities.
No protection system to be introduced to guarantee a specific number of locally trained or owned runners in the Melbourne Cup.
Manchester City apologises after Carlos Tevez held up a placard with the text 'R.I.P. Fergie' while aboard City's open-top bus.
Holger Osieck's stealthy transformation of the Socceroos continues apace.
As London prepares to welcome the world to its Olympics, Helena Smith visits the misplaced extravagance, desolation and despair of the 2004 Athens Games.
IF IT ain't broke, don't fix it. That's the maxim Holger Osieck applied when he selected his squad for the World Cup qualifiers next month.
A doping suspension has cost Australia's top female boxer, three-time national champion Bianca Elmir, a virtually guaranteed Olympic berth.
The Olympic dream of Canberra's national champion boxer Bianca Elmir is in tatters after she was slapped with a provisional doping ban just 14 hours before flying to China for the world championships.
Olympian Russell Mark is a straight shooter, and soon-to-be mankini model.
JOHN O'SHEA, the trainer of Stradbroke favourite Sea Siren, led a chorus left confused by the weights for next month's $1 million group 1 released yesterday.
LAGO LACENO: Allan Peiper, the Australian sports director who is guiding the US Garmin-Barracuda team through a dream start to the Giro d'Italia, has called on his Canadian race leader Ryder Hesjedal to race wisely in readiness for the gruelling third week.
It was between points that Sam Groth realised he had set an unofficial world record.
So often in sport, the details bear little relationship to the manner in which they were accumulated.
They say good things come in threes and for 2010 Dally M medallist Todd Carney, it has never rung truer. After inspiring Cronulla to the biggest upset win of the season over Melbourne and being selected to make his debut for the Blues in next week's State of Origin opener, the game's most exciting piece of moving artwork will get his driver's licence back on Friday. And, believe it or not, that spells good news for the Blues in this Origin series. Carney told The Inside Back he has been having dinner with NSW halves partner Mitchell Pearce every other week due to the fact he finds it difficult to commute from his new home in Cronulla to Pearce's beach pad in Coogee. Carney said he now intends to spend far more time with his former Roosters teammate during the Origin series.
Prices rising as Australian trainers and owners scour Europe and America for Cup runners.
THE battle for a spot on the archery team at the London Olympics has spilt over from the shooting range to the courts, with a young woman accusing her rival's father of intimidating her during qualifying events.
The battle for a spot in Australia's archery team for the London Olympics has spilled over from the shooting range to the courts, where a teenager has accused the father of her rival of intimidation.
Perth Thunder's first road trip proves the AIHL's newest team will be more than competitive.
Sydney FC will today name their assistant coach Ian Crook as their full-time head coach after he agreed to take over the position left vacant by Vitezslav Lavicka at the end of last season.
Poetry with little motion was produced by Luke Nolen on Black Caviar in Saturday's Goodwood at Morphettville. It was an armchair ride for her 21st consecutive triumph and the synchronisation between man and horse has never been more refined. At times a little twist of the wrist, seemingly lacking the pressure to dislodge a fly, but enough to get the right reaction from a responsive partner. Last week I pointed out how Athol Mulley, a master in the saddle, had to go to extremes to restrain the mighty Bernborough to a neck success at Randwick. But Cool Hand Luke was more art than throttling back, good for the horse if not the final margin of a length and quarter. Yes, Black Caviar accounted for opposition deemed bum of the month, the title given to second-rate opponents of Joe Louis, the great heavyweight. Black Caviar neither enhanced her champion status nor detracted from it in the Goodw
TRAINER Peter Moody has been told to expect overwhelming interest from the English media and public when his champion mare Black Caviar arrives at Ascot next month.
TRAINER Tim Martin is eyeing off next month's Stradbroke Handicap but first he is targeting Saturday's Scone Guineas with his untapped three-year-old Pampelonne.
Gai Waterhouse has re-energised the Tulloch Lodge machine at Randwick - and now for another Sydney trainers' premiership. A two-year lull led to Waterhouse refocusing, refining the thoroughbred operation, and making a renewed commitment to lead by example.
Australian Bloodstock's Jamie Lovett sees it as a challenge for the German galloper.
Damon Kelly has more than just strength training on his mind, writes Dominic Bossi.
NSW SWIFTS have mounted a strong claim as contenders for the trans-Tasman championship with a courageous three-point comeback win against Melbourne Vixens.
Trainer Peter Moody told to expect overwhelming interest from English media and public.
SYDNEY FC's youth coach Ian Crook is emerging as the latest candidate to fill the vacant coaching position at the club.
IF THE Queensland Reds go on to defend their Super Rugby title, or even make some noise in the finals, they will look back to a stretch of play before half-time against the Chiefs yesterday and remember the courageous calls that turned a season.
PASTOR MALDONADO has withstood great pressure from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso to take the Spanish Grand Prix, making Williams the fifth team to win this year, five races into the season.
Choosing the best of the best is a way of passing on the game's heritage to the next generation.
Trainer Peter Moody says that it did not matter if Black Caviar won by half an inch.
GRANT HACKETT has been painted as a party boy with drinking issues by some sections of the media who have been reporting about his marriage bust-up with pop star Candice Alley. Today he is speaking about the matter for the first time - and be sure Hackett is choosing his words with some care; the depth of his hurt and anger will be known to friends and confidants - but he was keen to set the record straight. Firstly, he was not booted out of the family home. "That is so wrong - I am not going to detail the final days of my marriage but I ended it because we reached a point where it was not healthy for either of us and it was not working,'' he said. The relationship had not been working for months and in the end the couple had no choice than to go their separate ways. For the past few weeks Hackett has sat back and watched his image slowly get worn down through a campaign of lies and misi
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