Sport
Stoinis included for T20 World Cup opener as all-rounders preferred
The all-rounder will play in Australia’s opening Twenty20 World Cup match as they look to strengthen a flaky batting line-up.
- by Malcolm Conn
AFL
Former coach Schwab backs Silk for board as Hawks ready for election battle
Triple premiership player Peter Schwab has nominated former Australian Super boss Ian Silk to the Hawthorn board as the club face a contested election featuring six candidates.
- by Jake Niall
Updated
Coronavirus pandemic
No jab, no play: ‘Handful of players’ to be affected by vaccination policy
AFL players and football staff will not participate in the AFL and AFLW competitions in 2022 unless they are vaccinated under the league’s vaccination policy.
- by Peter Ryan and Michael Gleeson
Updated
Concussion crisis
Coroner rejects call for ‘sins of the past’ to be examined in Tuck inquest
- by Peter Ryan and Jon Pierik
Insight & Analysis
How did the Ben Simmons situation in Philadelphia come to this?
“The Process” that turned Australia’s best basketball export into one of the NBA’s most maligned figures.
Sam Phillips
Reporter
Jumping the Ashes gun: let’s end the phoney war now
Do we really need two months of firing blanks at one another? The Ashes series doesn’t start until December and there is a whole World Cup in between.
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
Why the WBBL is better than the BBL
Comparisons really should be made between the WBBL and the BBL: they reveal how the women’s tournament is superior
Daniel Brettig
The Age chief cricket writer
Cricket
Soccer
‘We need to face this head-on’: Matildas’ uneasy homecoming
The women’s national team is back on Australian soil for the first time in almost two years. But against the backdrop of a wide-ranging SIA inquiry into abuse within the code, it is not the happy return they’d have envisaged.
- by Vince Rugari
White noise: Matildas boss tells players to embrace the pressure
Tony Gustavsson, a former schoolteacher, reached for a nearby whiteboard to help him answer a question on how he has managed to keep his team’s focus on the field.
- by Vince Rugari
Racing
Tennis
Opinion
Australian Open
No thanks Djokovic: Vaccine rules must apply no matter how big a star you are
It will be a shame if Novak Djokovic doesn’t play in Australia because of the government’s vaccination policy, but we’ll live - and that’s the point.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Opinion
Australian Open
Heard immunity: No-vax Novak saying nothing
Australia still treats COVID-19 as an emergency. This attracts criticism here and scorn around the world, but it’s saved thousands of lives. The world’s No.1 tennis player is likely to find that the Australian Open is shut to him.
- by Greg Baum
Updated
Australian Open
‘Doesn’t matter whether you are No.1 in the world’: No Australian Open for unvaccinated tennis players
- by Lisa Visentin, Scott Spits and Broede Carmody
NRL
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Swimming
Teams set to debate ISL boycott as tensions over unpaid wages increase
The International Swimming League was billed as a rich revolution for the sport. Now some of Australia’s leading swimmers are among those with money at risk.
- by Phil Lutton
Rich history, poor form: The shame about the name of NRL’s newest club
The Redcliffe Dolphins’ decision to callously throw away their history in the pursuit of national prominence is a tragic waste of a proud past.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Andrews declares GP will stay in Melbourne
- by Michael Lynch, Annika Smethurst and Tom Rabe
