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• Guehi magic puts Palace into top four

  07-12-2025 22:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Marc Guehi slots the match-winning goal for Crystal Palace against Fulham to ensure his side moves into the top four on the Premier League table.
  
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• Leicester’s Parling backs crackdown on escort defenders as ‘pretty positive’

  10-12-2025 16:24
  Tigers head coach welcomes impact of refereeing changesMove to more kicking has ‘opened up the game’ Geoff Parling, the Leicester head coach, has defended the crackdown on escort defenders, saying the impact of refereeing changes that promote more kicking has been “pretty positive”.Parling’s comments come after Ross Byrne attacked the revised law interpretations around contestable kicks on Monday. The Gloucester fly-half argued a potential knock-on effect would be f
  
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• British Ice Skating to allow same-sex couples to compete in ice dance

  10-12-2025 15:19
  Same-sex teams cannot compete beyond national levelGB follows national federations in Canada and FinlandSame-sex couples will be permitted to compete in ice dance in British events as of next season, including the national championships, British Ice Skating announced on Wednesday.However, same-sex teams cannot compete beyond the national level, as the International Skating Union’s rules stipulate pair and dance teams must comprise one man and one woman. Continue reading...
  
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• Chaos reigns at Wests Tigers: how did things get so dire at the embattled NRL club? | Nick Tedeschi

  10-12-2025 15:00
  With no stability in sight, a return to the Wests v Balmain friction of old threatens to make the club undesirable to players, coaches and fansA return to glory for the longsuffering Wests Tigers appears increasingly distant after a high-level purge which has accounted for four independent board members and CEO Shane Richardson, and created instability that threatens to consign the Tigers to NRL irrelevance for years to come – and maybe even the existence of the club.Despite a quarter of a
  
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• Big 12 commissioner says Notre Dame comments after CFP snub ‘totally out of bounds’

  10-12-2025 14:06
  Fighting Irish AD has attacked ACC this weekMiami won selection ahead of Notre DameBig 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was “totally out of bounds” for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week.Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged Notre Dame‘s chances at making the College Football Playoff, ins
  
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• Paul Pogba invests in Saudi Arabian camel racing team and aims to ‘elevate the sport’

  10-12-2025 13:39
  Footballer hopes to own world’s most expensive camel‘I’ve watched my fair share of races on YouTube,’ he saysIt is known as the sport of the sheikhs, with thousands of fans packing desert tracks to watch robot jockeys compete for huge prizes. Now professional camel racing has a new high-profile investor: Paul Pogba.The Monaco midfielder said he had become a shareholder in the Saudi Arabia-based Al Haboob, the world’s first professional camel racing team competing ac
  
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• Liverpool players will not try to influence Salah on his future, says Szoboszlai

  10-12-2025 13:00
  ‘It’s going to be the club’s and his decision,’ midfielder saysCurtis Jones insists squad firmly behind Arne SlotDominik Szoboszlai has said the Liverpool dressing room will have no influence over Mohamed Salah’s next move because only the player and the club can decide how their standoff ends.Salah missed Liverpool’s valuable Champions League win at Inter on Tuesday having been left out of Arne Slot’s squad in response to his highly critical interview a
  
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• Liverpool win at Inter while Mo Salah lifts weights alone – Football Weekly

  10-12-2025 12:37
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Lars Sivertsen as a Salah-less Liverpool win in Inter, Chelsea lose to Atalanta and Spurs beat Slavia Prague.Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Liverpool win in Milan against Inter. They needed a result, any result – and they got it thanks to Alessandro Bastoni pulling Florian Wirtz’s shir
  
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• Could this daughter of an Olympian be the next Ash Barty?

  10-12-2025 12:06 via smh.com.au
  
  As the rising Australian tennis star plots a boilover on home soil, a maligned crowd-puller could make a shock return to Brisbane courts.
  
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• Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis

  10-12-2025 12:01
  World No 1 says ‘biological men’ have a ‘huge advantage’ ‘She hit the nail on the head’, says battle of sexes rival KyrgiosAryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, the world No 1 saying it would be unfair for women to face “biological men” in professional tennis.The WTA Tour gender participation policy permits transgender women to participate if they have declared their gender as female for
  
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• ‘A different type of game’: USMNT veterans on how to handle World Cup pressure

  10-12-2025 12:00
  In 2010 and 2022, the US faced heightened emotions from the lead-in to the tournament itself. As hosts next year, little will changeThe draw is done. The schedule is set. For the US men’s national team, all that’s left, aside from playing the games, are the emotional highs and lows. After the draw, US head coach Mauricio Pochettino referenced a “competitive stress” factor triggered by the World Cup. He said the friendlies against Belgium and Portugal in March are intended
  
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• The Spin | From jaffas to the corridor of uncertainty – revel in cricket’s rich language of bowling

  10-12-2025 11:28
  The act of bowling is simple, the vocabulary used to describe it reflects the difficulty in pinning down its artistry and craftEvery act in cricket’s history has begun with a bowler delivering a ball to a batter 22 yards away. Delivering. Like a postman delivers a council tax bill. Like a waiter delivers a round of drinks. Of all the verbs used to describe the bowling of a ball, this one speaks to the deep-seated cultural inequity that has plagued this sport since its inception.“If t
  
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• Bombshell backflip: Tigers try to bring back sacked chairman, extend Benji after chaos

  10-12-2025 11:21 via foxsports.com.au
  A stunning backflip will reportedly see sacked Wests Tigers chairman Barry O’Farrell return to the club, just nine days after being axed along with three others.
  
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• Why Bailey Smith’s headband is one of the hot topics among AFL clubs

  10-12-2025 10:51 via smh.com.au
  
  The AFL has sent a seven-page memo to clubs, outlining a raft of proposed changes for season 2026, including one as a result of the actions of the Cats star.
  
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• The ‘Bailey Smith rule’ and more MRO flexibility: The AFL changes in store for 2026

  10-12-2025 10:51 via smh.com.au
  
  The AFL has sent a seven-page memo to clubs, outlining a raft of proposed changes for season 2026, including one as a result of the actions of Geelong star Bailey Smith.
  
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• Stunning Wests Tigers development with O’Farrell on verge of return, Marshall to extend

  10-12-2025 10:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Just nine days after the Wests Tigers majority owners punted O’Farrell and three other independent directors, the former NSW premier has been asked to return to the role for what will be his third stint as the leader of the joint venture.
  
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• Climate crisis threatens disabled Australians' access to nature

  10-12-2025 09:41 via abc.net.au
  
  From bushfires and decreasing air quality to flooding and erosion, climate change is threatening our relationship with nature, and people with disability are being disproportionately impacted.
  
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• Why this former No.1 pick is going back into the draft

  10-12-2025 09:39 via theage.com.au
  
  The AFLW trade period finished on Wednesday with some premiership-winning stars switching clubs, and a former No.1 pick having to re-enter the draft after her move to the rampant Roos fell through.
  
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• ‘Damaged’ racing vet seeks anti-bullying order to return to work

  10-12-2025 09:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Racing Victoria’s head vet Dr Grace Forbes says she wants to return to work in a safe, bully-free environment after being on personal leave for almost six months.
  
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• Ten more AFL Origin stars named as WA makes controversial pick, Victoria adds third-gen prodigy

  10-12-2025 09:17 via foxsports.com.au
  Kysaiah Pickett and Luke Jackson headline a star-studded crop added to the Western Australian State of Origin side.
  
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• 10 more stars added to AFL Origin blockbuster as WA side takes shape

  10-12-2025 09:03 via foxsports.com.au
  Kysaiah Pickett and Luke Jackson headline a star-studded crop of Western Australians added to the 2026 State of Origin side.
  
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• ‘Hating soccer is more American than apple pie’: the World Cup nobody wanted the US to host

  10-12-2025 09:00
  Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and telev
  
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• Fabio Cannavaro: ‘Uzbeks are tough, never give up. Playing them is a pain in the arse’

  10-12-2025 09:00
  In an exclusive interview, the former World Cup winner talks about taking Uzbekistan to the 2026 World Cup and a project close to his heart in NaplesUzbekistan may have made history by qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in the country’s 34 years of independence in June after losing only once in 15 qualifiers. But they then had a problem: Timur Kapadze stepped down and they needed a head coach for next year’s tournament.They turned to Fabio Cannavaro, Italy’s 2006 W
  
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• England scout for World Cup camps amid fears of losing preferred base to Netherlands

  10-12-2025 09:00
  Initial Kansas plan for US training base thrown into doubtFA exploring alternative options on the east coast The Football Association has sent operational staff to the US this week to scout for World Cup training camps amid concerns that England may lose their preferred site to the Netherlands.Thomas Tuchel had cleared an FA plan for England to be based in Kansas after a pre-tournament training camp in Fort Lauderdale, but after last week’s draw there are concerns that the Netherlands will
  
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• ‘He’ll do whatever he needs’: Khawaja ups the ante in bid to save career

  10-12-2025 08:38 via theage.com.au
  
  Usman Khawaja had a solo training session in Brisbane on Wednesday, as he seeks to garner a recall for the third Ashes Test in Adelaide. Watch the footage here.
  
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• Tigers’ huge call on Benji’s future after player threats; Latrell set for switch — Off-season Central

  10-12-2025 08:04 via foxsports.com.au
  Wests Tigers will try to counter the chaos engulfing the club by offering coach Benji Marshall a long-term contract extension.
  
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• Wests Tigers to extend Benji Marshall’s contract until 2029

  10-12-2025 07:33 via smh.com.au
  
  After a spate of wholesale changes at board and management level, Wests Tigers fans have been handed some timely news in the form of Benji Marshall’s tenure.
  
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• ‘Hope they respect that’: No.1 pick draft bound AGAIN; 13-trade Deadline Day chaos — Wrap

  10-12-2025 07:13 via foxsports.com.au
  Thirteen deals were struck during a frantic final day of the AFLW trade period.
  
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• Race-by-race preview and tips at Kembla Grange on Thursday

  10-12-2025 07:00 via theage.com.au
  
  All the information required to make your selections for the NSW feature meeting.
  
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• Debut winner out to end Randwick rival’s purple patch

  10-12-2025 07:00 via theage.com.au
  
  Talented mare Outta Line faces a tough test to beat Randwick rival Purple Rose, who is shooting for a third straight win.
  
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