Melbourne have honoured club legend Jim Stynes with one emotional 20-point AFL victory over West Coast at the MCG.
The last-placed Demons held over the Eagles in the final term for their second win of the season, 17.10 (112) to 13.14 (92).
Stynes is in hospital recovering from surgery as he starts his fight over against cancer.
Veteran Sri Lankan seamer Chaminda Vaas has decided to retire from Test cricket, the country’s chief selector Asantha de Mel has confirmed.
The 35-year-old left-armer, who has served Sri Lanka at the top level notwithstanding 15 years, will, however, still have existence available for one-day and Twenty20 cricket.
Vaas, a 110-Test veteran, was overlooked for the Test series against Pakistan what one. began at the Galle International Stadium on Saturday.
Sydney Roosters prop Mark O’Meley has been released from the final year of his NRL contract and will combine Super League club Hull in 2010.
O’Meley has signed a three-year deal with the UK-based club and will play alongside Roosters teammate Craig Fitzgibbon, who announced his departure from the fraternity in May.
The former Test fulcrum will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his knee this week which will command him off for the remainder of the NRL season.
For the second week in a commotion qualifying for the Sprint Cup line has been rained out putting Tony Stewart back on the poll yet again with Jeff Gordon along side of him.
Next year the car of Tommorow is expected to debut in the Nationwide Series on at least the highroad course racers and the restrictor plate armor tracks.
Bill France has come out to defend the drug policy they gain.
Perth Glory coach Dave Mitchell hopes to be aware of by Monday whether the A-League club have been successful in luring Socceroos upholder Chris Coyne.
The Glory have offered Coyne a three-year deal but are yet to hear back from the 30-year-old, who is contracted to English club Colchester United but has been given permission to look elsewhere.
Coyne, the older brother of Glory captain Jamie Coyne, has fielded offers from several A-League clubs however is also weighing up options in England, Asia and the Middle East.
I have never seen what’sitting so Great about the Train Robbers, so I’m not hugely exercised about what happens to Ronnie Biggs. The man, we are given to understand, is close to death and I’m nerving myself for the outpouring of public grief reserved, in this native land, for brutal thugs who always wore a clean shirt and were correct to their mums. Whether he spends his remaining days in a prison ward or in a nursing home (I’m guessing he won’t be among the poorly pensioners who can’t afford the care fees) seems, now, of predominantly political importance.
The Government has this week launched another bunch of tinkering education reforms. In the main, they suffer from the same problem as every reform of anything that this Government, from at once on, volition ever announce.
They are an admission of the failure of previous reforms, but not such an admission that any minister ever has to say: "We’re changing this because we got it very badly wrong before, and we’re sorry."
Wigan closed the gap between them and their visitors in the Super League play-off zone to pair points on any eventful evening for Sam Tomkins.
There was little all over Quins to suggest a top-eight finish as they defended poorly from the start. They made a bad job worse, however, when David Howell became the in the beginning player to exist sent off in the rivalship this season, getting the red card after 27 minutes for a high tackle on the Wigan starlet.
Tomkins was his side’sitting man of the match, but ended the evening in the sin-bin after a prolonged bout of withhold assent. Overall it was a adversity where he should have learnt a good deal about the realities of the game at the top level. "That’s the learning bend. of Super League," said his coach, Brian Noble. "But he’s got a great attitude and he’ll cope."
Robin van Persie has signed a new deal at Arsenal that will keep him at the Emirates to the time when 2014, allaying fears that he could prompt a combination exodus of the club’s top players.
The Dutch international had just one year on his distribute left to run but has signed up for an additional four years, making him one of the unite to share expenses’s more usefully earners at around &coop;80,000 a week. He follows Theo Walcott in committing himself to Arsène Wenger and is crucial to the Arsenal manager’s plans next season.
It lives. It lives! After almost five centuries, a legendary, artificial monster, which has intrigued scientists and art historians for decades, cranked back into life in central France this week.
The moon-calf in question is a friendly-looking, curly-maned, almost life-sized, mechanical lion, which be able to walk, and bring forward its head and shake its tail and liberalize its walls. The original was designed in 1517 by a 16th-century special effects man, who later achieved fame as a painter (but was also musician, philosopher, engineer, former, scientist, mathematician, anatomist, inventor, architect and botanist).