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Channel Nine, one of Cricket Australia's key allies, has expressed displeasure at the sport's rotation policy after Sachin Tendulkar and Mike Hussey were rested from yesterday's one-day international in Adelaide.

Sydney FC marquee-man Brett Emerton has labelled the Sky Blues victory over Perth on Saturday as the most important win of the season and one that could spark a late-season charge to the A-League finals.

There is mounting concern in AFL playing ranks that rapid advances in football gloves, particularly those from overseas, could give key players a significant advantage.

Michael Bevan’s brilliant batting displays in One Day cricket kept me spellbound for large parts of my adolescence. The colour, the thrill-a-minute spectacle, the smash-and-bash were all anyone could hope for in a sporting contest. But now the fifty over game has been condensed further, and Twenty20 has all those…

Former coach Ernie Merrick left Melbourne Victory an enduring legacy during his six years in charge.Two premiership/championship doubles and a third grand final appearance plus three Asian Champions League campaigns.

Only four seasons ago, the tennis world was convinced Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer had set a quality benchmark in the 2008 Wimbledon final that would never be threatened. As glorious as that match was, it no longer stands alone.

It is a race that may have been overlooked because of its more testing conditions, but suddenly the $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on March 10 is shaping as the race where Black Caviar could complete her world record assault this autumn.

Bernard Tomic copped a comprehensive 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 lesson in court craft from Roger Federer at the Australian Open overnight.

I have lost count of how many times this season I've heard that good players at the end of their careers deserve one series too many rather than one too few. It's been mainly Australians who have been saying it.

For more than a decade Lleyton Hewitt has been the face of the Australian Open. This year he has seemed in danger of becoming the invisible man.