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Rugby Australia has signed a five-year extension to its broadcast rights agreement with Nine Entertainment in a deal worth up to $240m. It runs from 2026-2030 and includes performance incentives linked to Wallabies wins, Nine-owned newspapers reported. “[It] represents a significant uplift on Rugby Australia’s current broadcast agreement and follows a successful organisational reset in … Read more

Jason Day turned plenty of heads with his outfit choices at last year’s Masters but said on Tuesday he will not be sporting such bold ensembles this week after Augusta National requested he sport a more reserved look. The Australian former world No 1, who left Nike in early 2024 to join Malbon Golf, had … Read more

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel was among the dozens killed when the roof of a nightclub in the Dominican Republic collapsed during the early hours of Tuesday morning. At least 58 people died and 160 were injured at the nightclub in Santo Domingo where a crowd that included athletes and politicians were attending … Read more

So that’s how you beat Real Madrid then. Here it is, the silver bullet. Improbably brilliant, aesthetically lovely, statistically semi‑impossible right-footed free‑kicks. What’s the problem here exactly? Before this fun, wild, unbound night at the Emirates Stadium Declan Rice had scored exactly zero free-kicks across his eight-year professional career. On Tuesday night he scored two in … Read more

Presumably some time between making another play for Marco Asensio and the Paris Saint-Germain forward pitching up on loan in February, Unai Emery, or at least Aston Villa’s administrative staff, sifted through the small print of Uefa’s regulations in case this very scenario presented itself. Less than three months after replacing Kvara Kvaratskhelia at Parc … Read more

Any potential deal for the NRL to take control of Super League depends on the continued presence of French clubs in the British game. Australian powerbrokers are likely to abandon plans to buy a stake if Catalans Dragons and Toulouse are ejected by clubs leading a review into the sport in the UK. There is … Read more

Michael Malone, who coached the Denver Nuggets to the NBA title in 2023 and has led the team to eight consecutive winning seasons, was fired on Tuesday in a stunning move that comes with less than a week in the regular season. Also out is general manager Calvin Booth, whose contract will not be renewed. … Read more

Hurricane Helene made landfall in the early hours of Friday 27 September, in Big Bend, Florida. Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center had been watching it building for a week, as it moved away from Nicaragua, up past Grand Cayman, Cancún, and Cuba, and the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, had declared a state of … Read more

Bayern Munich have everything to do if they are to claim the Champions League on home turf. This was a party thoroughly spoiled by Inter, who might have feared the worst when Thomas Müller scored a rapturously-received equaliser five minutes from time. Müller’s 25-year spell at Bayern will end this summer and everybody thought they … Read more

Who knew that Declan Rice would be able to bend a free-kick like ­Beckham? On the very biggest stage. And not just once, either. On a red-letter night for Arsenal, one to fire dreams of the ultimate triumph, their key midfielder brought the house down; Real Madrid to their knees, as well. It is never … Read more