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4:00 AM AEDT | TWO YEARS and two weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, former Wallaby Julian Huxley completed one of the most remarkable sporting comebacks yesterday when he played his first game of rugby for the Brumbies Runners against the Junior Waratahs.
4:00 AM AEDT | WELLINGTON: On the day Steven Smith became the second-youngest winner of the Steve Waugh Medal, Ricky Ponting revealed the reason behind the all-rounder's exclusion from Australia's one-day team for the tour of New Zealand was a desire to see him push his Test claims in the Sheffield Shield.
4:00 AM AEDT | SYDNEY FC marquee striker John Aloisi looks likely to be cruelly denied a place in the grand final after straining his hamstring in the 4-2 preliminary final win over Wellington Phoenix on Saturday night.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Waratahs are set to lose the services of their most-capped hooker, with Adam Freier this week expected to become the Melbourne Rebels' highest-profile signing to date.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE more things stay the same, the more they change.
14 Mar 10 | NEW DELHI: Australia ended Germany's domination of the men's World Cup with a 2-1 win in the grand final on Saturday.
14 Mar 10 | The first Australian to be crowned the Mr World of natural bodybuilding says sports authorities are in denial if they believe Australia's elite athletes aren't cheating by using human growth hormone.
14 Mar 10 | Kevin Sheedy has urged the AFL to install a third team in NSW, nominating the Rabbitohs' heartland of south Sydney as a potential destination.
14 Mar 10 | A LEADING betting agency has suspended betting on the NRL wooden spoon amid fears more Newcastle players could be implicated in the club's drugs scandal.
14 Mar 10 | The first half was typical of a contest in which, before kick-off, one team had been overrated and the grossly underrated. We see a lot of this in football, but it always seems to take us by surprise.
14 Mar 10 | Former New Zealand opening batsman Mark Richardson says he would be shocked if any New Zealand player dared to sledge Michael Clarke in the Test series starting on Friday.
14 Mar 10 | After the agony comes the ecstasy.
12 Mar 10 | SYDNEY FC might still be fretting over the quickly taken free kick that denied them a home grand final last Sunday but Stuart Musialik has an unusual message for his teammates: it might be the best thing that could have happened.
12 Mar 10 | WHEN Phil Waugh first put on a Waratahs jersey almost 11 years ago, his man-of-the-match performance set a benchmark - not only for himself but other players as well.
12 Mar 10 | THE Frank Lowy example - a successful businessman wields enormous power and political influence to develop a sport - was a major driving force behind the Australian Rugby League's decision yesterday to vote to form an independent commission to run the game.
12 Mar 10 | AUCKLAND: Australia lost vice-captain Michael Clarke for the business end of the Chappell-Hadlee series but still won the trophy. The tourists overcame the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis system to win a rain-disrupted clash at Eden Park and claim the series just 48 hours before Clarke was to return to a tour he fled because of relationship issues.
12 Mar 10 | IT WAS the best individual try Peter Sterling had seen in 16 years of commentary: a miraculous, out-of-this-world effort at Kogarah to sink the Dragons during last year's finals. But can Jarryd Hayne do it again?
11 Mar 10 | Wayne Rooney reached 30 goals for the season as Manchester United marched into the last eight of the Champions League with a clinical 4-0 demolition of AC Milan, to win 7-2 win on aggregate at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
11 Mar 10 | THE Australian cricket vice-captain, Michael Clarke, has called off his wedding and ended his relationship with Lara Bingle, a friend of the model's told The Diary last night.
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11 Mar 10 | Clarke was tiring of the off-field commitments tied to the Australian captaincy even before the drama surrounding his fiancee, Lara Bingle, became common knowledge.
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