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4:00 AM AEDT | Richmond have warned their troubled midfielder Ben Cousins to curb his drinking. Revelations that the recovering drug addict has over-indulged in alcohol over the past year came as he was readmitted to hospital at midnight on Sunday with an unrelated stomach illness.
4:00 AM AEDT | Shattered Sydney FC striker John Aloisi has admitted he battled a persistent hamstring injury for almost two months before it gave way last weekend, ending his dreams of playing in Saturday night's A-League grand final.
4:00 AM AEDT | The Melbourne Rebels' plan to shortly unveil Adam Freier as their first high-profile Australian signing has hit a snag with the former Waratahs captain yesterday saying he was nowhere near deciding where he will play next year.
4:00 AM AEDT | Cronulla officials are frustrated that a biting allegation by rising centre Blake Ferguson was ignored by referees during the Sharks' narrow loss to Melbourne at the weekend.
4:00 AM AEDT | If a week is a long time in football, then what of the 20-minute period of mayhem that ended last night's contest, in which Manly went from coasting to a first-up victory to their season being in disarray just 80 minutes into it.
15 Mar 10 | She was left broken-hearted when denied the opportunity to represent Australia in shot put and long jump at the Beijing Summer Paralympics in 2008, but Jessica Gallagher spent her 24th birthday on Sunday claiming bronze in the women's vision-impaired slalom event at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics.
15 Mar 10 | A VICTORIAN man was forced to leave his trapped diving partner to drown in a sinkhole while scuba diving in a South Australian cave.
15 Mar 10 | Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke was left decidedly unimpressed this morning after learning a Channel Seven reporter and cameraman had booked themselves onto his Qantas flight to New Zealand.
15 Mar 10 | Fernando Alonso led home a Ferrari 1-2 at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday.
15 Mar 10 | Blazing knocks from Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds have helped the defending champion Deccan Chargers to a 31-run Indian Premier League win over the Chennai Super Kings.
15 Mar 10 | Wayne Rooney fired Manchester United back to the top of the Premier League as his double strike inspired a 3-0 win over Fulham, while Adam Johnson's first Manchester City goal rescued a 1-1 draw at Sunderland on Sunday.
15 Mar 10 | CHAMPIONSHIP leader Jamie Whincup's team launched a blistering attack on V8 Supercars rules after stewards punished him for a safety problem yesterday.
15 Mar 10 | 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.
15 Mar 10 | 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.
15 Mar 10 | 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.
15 Mar 10 | 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.
15 Mar 10 | THE more things stay the same, the more they change.
15 Mar 10 | SAKHIR, Bahrain: It was solid more than spectacular but that's just what Michael Schumacher wanted from his comeback to formula one here on Sunday.
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.