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Bonnie Deas is shining in US college basketball, and she puts a lot of her success down to a WNBL semifinal trial by fire against Australian basketball great Sami Whitcomb. Source link

Eight years ago, Swetha Subbiah was asked to run a single football session for a friend. She ended up starting a sporting movement, which now has 15,000 women and girls as members across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi.   Source link

After a career-best year, Queenslander Priscilla Hon was among four Australian Open wildcards named on Monday, but Nick Kyrgios was not among them. Source link

Victorian trainer Gerry Orr has received a six-year ban for procuring performance-enhancing drugs after he inadvertently alerted stewards by giving authorities his mobile phone.  Source link

Stuart Broad has attracted plenty of criticism for his low opinion of the current Australian team but the England great stands by his harsh assessment. Source link

Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf is expected to face scrutiny after he attempted to strike a fan in the second quarter of Pittsburgh’s win over Detroit. Source link

Mitchell Starc will be 37 by the time the 2027 Ashes kicks off in 18 months’ time, but the in-form quick is open to spearheading Australia’s attack in their next clash with England.  Source link

Nathan Lyon’s injury leaves selectors with another headache, made trickier by Pat Cummins’s admission that he will almost certainly miss the Boxing Day Test now that the Ashes are won. Source link

In the pre-series furore, with England crowing and injury concerns mounting, Australia stayed quiet. Its response has been an emphatic and quite brilliant Ashes domination. Source link

Jamie Smith is pilloried as “a dope” after an ugly dismissal as Nathan Lyon is injured and Marnus Labuschagne creates more catching magic. Here are the quick hits from day five of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide. Source link