Cameron Smith has slammed organisers for their Australian Open course set-up, ruing how the famed Kingston Heath and Victoria sandbelt layouts have been reduced to American-style target golf.

Retiring Australian football great Clare Polkinghorne admits her Matildas send-off match won't fully sink in until she steps onto the Lang Park pitch for the final time. 

Australian cricket is booming at junior levels but as the sport attracts a more diverse and higher player base, the pressure on some of these kids is becoming too much and burnout looms.

AFLW fans who didn't get tickets to the grand final are left disappointed after it sold out within hours for the second year in a row being held at Princes Park with a limited capacity.

NSW teammates console Sean Abbott following an emotional minute's silence for Phillip Hughes at the SCG on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Cycling great Anna Meares will resume her role as the Australian chef de Mission at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Matthew Richardson says AusCycling's lifetime ban on him is similar to an employer firing someone who has already resigned, but he says he hopes it will understand his defection to Team GB in time.

In 2014, Darren Lehmann answered the phone with news that would bear one of the most tragic moments in Australian sport. In a time when Australia is now searching for a Test opener, Phil Hughes should have been entering the twilight of his Test career. 10 years on from Hughes' death, it still hits h...

A gymnastics coach who quit the Australian Olympic team after the ABC revealed he allegedly harassed a former colleague is now being accused of making sexual comments to his former teenage athletes.

NBL chief executive David Stevenson hopes the league has sent a strong message by handing down long bans to a pair of unruly spectators. 

The complete capitulation in Perth was alarming. The numbers that precipitated this slide were even worse, and hint at a tough period to come for the Australian men's Test team.

Broncos playmaker Adam Reynolds says he is excited to see Ben Hunt return to the club, following a difficult decision by the former Dragons skipper.

David Warner and Steve Smith go unsold on the second day of IPL auctions, but 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi is picked up by Rahul Dravid and the Rajasthan Royals. 

Half of the players in the A-League Men's competition said they were dissatisfied with the running of the league, with about 11 per cent saying they did not feel safe in their club environment.

Ebony Marinoff's league best and fairest win was felt throughout the women's footy community as the Crows veteran has long been a pioneer and stalwart of the competition. 

The equal longest-serving coach in the AFL, John Longmire, is stepping down as Sydney coach in the wake of a demoralising grand final loss, bringing an era to an end at the Swans.   

Pop star and Ipswich Town shareholder Ed Sheeran gets excited after his team's big Premier League game against Manchester United, but has to apologise after blundering into a post-match interview of new Red Devils coach Ruben Amorim.

Ebony Marinoff beats Ash Riddell to the AFLW best and fairest by three votes in a thrilling count.

The drivers' championship has been wrapped up for a fourth time by Red Bull's Max Verstappen, but the fight for Formula 1's constructors' crown is poised for a thrilling conclusion.

The scale of Australia's defeat in the first Test against India has left us all searching for answers, and means careers will be put on the line in Adelaide and beyond.