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Wyvern Hunt brings up his half-century at the Basin Reserve today. The 91-year-old Wellingtonian has attended every test match at the famous cricket ground and today's, against Pakistan, is number 50. Mr Hunt handed the New Zealand players their test...

The women's football in India received a boost with the arrival of American coach Mike Dickey, who will conduct training sessions for both footballers and coaches in Goa. Dickey's first training camp was held Wednesday at the artificial turf of...

Australian sporting stars behind Greg Norman and Harry Kewell, Reed will end his reign as the world's best motocross rider in what will be a major coup for V8 Supercars. "I have tested with Team Vodafone and it is certainly...

Brent Dancer's life for as long as he can remember, considering his father Barry represented Australia multiple times as he was growing up before the family moved to Perth so that his father could take up a position at the...

McNamee, who believes he lost only narrowly in the secret leadership ballot in late October, will campaign on the key issue of player development. He has also vowed to push for a split in the roles of director of tennis...

Olympic medals and ''stretched'' funding has led Cycling Australia to cut its high-performance program for mountain bikes after it was deemed too expensive for the sports body to maintain. The decision, described by CA chief executive Graham Fredericks last night...

Victoria Limited is being accused of biting the hand that feeds it, after it emerged yesterday country racing had bailed out the sport's governing body with $4 million in September. Country Racing Victoria chairman Michael Caveny said yesterday that CRV...

Australia's two highest-profile players are Geoff Ogilvy and Adam Scott. They are the poster boys for the $1.5 million Australian Open, with the splendid ocean views at NSW Golf Club in the background. A couple of years ago, the pair...

Family ties … Arnold Palmer won the Australian Open in 1966 (main). Now his grandson Sam Saunders wants a piece of the action in this year's event...Those in attendance will be none the wiser about his real identity. If the...

Falling out . . . "We are not making it up. It's there", says Lance Armstrong about his feud with Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador. Tour de France champion to sharpen his competitive edge, but the 38-year-old Texan is adamant that...