Daisy Pearce has been named to replace Michael Prior as the West Coast Eagles’ AFLW coach – a move heralded as a “momentous milestone” by the club. Pearce will leave her role as development and then assistant coach with Geelong in the AFL. In a… Read More »Daisy Pearce takes up ‘momentous’ head coach role
The title defence of Wallaby Bernard Foley’s Kubota Spears Tokyo Bay in Japan’s club rugby has got off to the worst possible start in a 52-26 thrashing from Tokyo Sungoliath. Despite beating Sungoliath three times last season en route to a maiden League One title, the Spears… Read More »Eddie gets another win over coaching rival days after beating him for Japan job, Rennie’s super start
Without the injured Erling Haaland and trailing 1-0 to Luton at halftime, Manchester City had looked in danger of plunging into a full-blown crisis approaching the halfway point of their Premier League title defence. But the defending champions managed to turn it round on Sunday… Read More »City rise from the dead to prevent Pep’s career-worst winless run, Ange’s Spurs nullify Newcastle to snap streak
Australia’s rugby world champs have triumphed in the Cape Town Sevens after holding on bravely when down to just six players to edge a drama-filled final against France. But it was again a very different story on Sunday (Monday AEDT) for the Aussie men who, having excelled… Read More »‘Gutsy’, ‘brave’: Aussie women survive first-half red card to claim back-to-back tournaments, men go down in final
Much as we like to think of the NRL as a 17-team competition in which anyone can win, we all know that it’s not really like that. Sure, it’s a lot more even than most soccer leagues – Bayern Munich’s eleven championships in a row… Read More »Pressure Points: Wighton could be the last piece in Souths’ jigsaw – or the albatross that will hang around their necks