With kick-off to the NRL season just a few days away, nine sides are hoping to continue a trend where at least one side leaps from also-ran status into the finals on the back of a five-win improvement or more. Over the past nine seasons,… Read More »Leaping to finals conclusions: Predicting which team among the nine also-rans can make giant step forward in 2024
Round 18 was an intriguing weekend of football with four draws, 14 goals in six matches, for the second week in a row and three teams that managed to keep a clean sheet. In the two games where a team claimed three points, the winning… Read More »Goal-scoring fullbacks, Tilio magic: The A-League players who were the difference in Round 18
India have accomplished a nervy run-chase to secure a five-wicket victory against England in the fourth cricket Test in Ranchi. Chasing a modest 192 for victory on Monday, India cruised to 0-84 before the English spinners engineered a collapse that left the hosts reeling at… Read More »Bazball beaten: Indian young guns’ nerveless stand aces chase, ensures Poms’ first series loss under McCullum
Less than one hour past the game, as we trod to the bars, the Calcutta Cup safe back in the arms of glad Scots who had just made the English go home to think again and again and again and again, a young man strode… Read More »England conquered, Irish in their sights and ‘the only holes Ireland have are exactly where Scottish swords fit’
There might have only been one trans-Tasman fixture over the weekend, but Australian rugby was given an intimidating reminder of what is coming in 2024. It wasn’t just the shellacking the Force copped against the Hurricanes, but the derby that kicked off the season between… Read More »Super Rugby talking points: Aussies given early warning, Lolesio’s timely reminder