Sports Tennis Women

Talented young tennis players offered college scholarships

A selection of Sunshine Coast talents have been offered scholarships to play division one college tennis in the United States. Somer Dalla-Bona, Tayah Cross and Chloe Purkiss have been recognised as promising players from the high performance program at KT Academy, Mooloolaba Tennis Club. Academy director Adon Kronk said he was “extremely proud of all Read More…

Cricket Sports Women

Sophie Molineux called into Australia Women’s Ashes squad

Australia have called spinning allrounder Sophie Molineux into their squad for the Women’s Ashes Test, which starts next Thursday in Taunton. The left-armer has played three ODIs and 15 T20Is, taking 21 wickets for her country, but has yet to feature in Tests. Molineux missed the original cut for the Ashes squad in June, as Read More…

Football Sports

Cristiano Ronaldo’s six greatest games at Old Trafford

After what George Best called the most exciting debut he had seen, the flicks, tricks, stepovers and goals just kept on coming Cristiano Ronaldo dribbles past Stylianos Giannakopoulos and Nicky Hunt of Bolton Wanderers on his debut at Old Trafford in 2003. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images 1) 16 August 2003: Manchester United 4 Bolton Wanderers Read More…

Cricket

ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup digital content delivers record-breaking numbers

The growth in consumption along with these record-breaking numbers demonstrate the power of cricket to bring together an enormous global audience,” says ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney. • #CWC19 video content nets over 4.6 billion views• 3.5 billion minutes watched across Facebook and YouTube• 31 million #CWC19 tweets The International Cricket Council today released the Read More…