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12 Mar 10 | SYDNEY FC might still be fretting over the quickly taken free kick that denied them a home grand final last Sunday but Stuart Musialik has an unusual message for his teammates: it might be the best thing that could have happened.
12 Mar 10 | WHEN Phil Waugh first put on a Waratahs jersey almost 11 years ago, his man-of-the-match performance set a benchmark - not only for himself but other players as well.
12 Mar 10 | THE Frank Lowy example - a successful businessman wields enormous power and political influence to develop a sport - was a major driving force behind the Australian Rugby League's decision yesterday to vote to form an independent commission to run the game.
12 Mar 10 | AUCKLAND: Australia lost vice-captain Michael Clarke for the business end of the Chappell-Hadlee series but still won the trophy. The tourists overcame the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis system to win a rain-disrupted clash at Eden Park and claim the series just 48 hours before Clarke was to return to a tour he fled because of relationship issues.
12 Mar 10 | IT WAS the best individual try Peter Sterling had seen in 16 years of commentary: a miraculous, out-of-this-world effort at Kogarah to sink the Dragons during last year's finals. But can Jarryd Hayne do it again?
11 Mar 10 | Wayne Rooney reached 30 goals for the season as Manchester United marched into the last eight of the Champions League with a clinical 4-0 demolition of AC Milan, to win 7-2 win on aggregate at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
11 Mar 10 | THE Australian cricket vice-captain, Michael Clarke, has called off his wedding and ended his relationship with Lara Bingle, a friend of the model's told The Diary last night.
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11 Mar 10 | Clarke was tiring of the off-field commitments tied to the Australian captaincy even before the drama surrounding his fiancee, Lara Bingle, became common knowledge.
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11 Mar 10 | THE domain of class thoroughbreds is usually a carnival Saturday but punters should not disregard yesterday's Canterbury meeting.
11 Mar 10 | WARATAHS coach Chris Hickey believes the last thing NSW should do is engage the Lions in a game of ''touch footy'' when the sides meet at the Sydney Football Stadium tomorrow night.
11 Mar 10 | HOLDING aloft the Premier's Plate on the last day of the regular season was a highlight of the year for Sydney FC, but it was also seen as the entree to the main course. But now they are 90 minutes from being dumped out of the finals by Wellington Phoenix.
11 Mar 10 | FEUDING former Pakistan captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan have been banned from representing their country for life because of their bickering during and after the disastrous tour of Australia, lowlighted by the loss of the unlosable Test at the SCG.
11 Mar 10 | SIX WEEKS after threatening to leave Cronulla, Paul Gallen has proved his loyalty to the club's new administration by agreeing to a two-year extension that removes clauses in his deal that had allowed him to leave before his contract expired.
10 Mar 10 | The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely and imposed a one-year ban on Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved for behaviour they say contributed to Pakistan's poor performance on its recent tour of Australia.
10 Mar 10 | Arsenal swept into the Champions League quarter-finals as Nicklas Bendtner silenced his critics with a hat-trick in a majestic 5-0 win against Porto this morning.
10 Mar 10 | Michael Clarke needs to choose between a fraught personal life and his career in cricket. All the evidence indicates that the current position is untenable. As Mark Anthony could testify, obsession can be a man's undoing. If Clarke is unwilling to make the call, then cricket will make it for him. In the nick of time, Ricky Ponting sorted himself out. Now it is Clarke's turn.
10 Mar 10 | QUEENSLAND jockey Stathi Katsidis is supremely confident of starting his stay in Sydney with victory on Shoot Out in the group 1 Royal Randwick Guineas on Saturday.
10 Mar 10 | After 14 years of top-flight rugby, he knows what lifts the players, writes Rupert Guinness.
10 Mar 10 | SIMON COLOSIMO has confirmed he won't be going anywhere until after the completion of Sydney FC's finals campaign, ending speculation that he was set to cut ties with the club before the Japanese and Chinese transfer windows slam shut at the end of the week.
10 Mar 10 | HAMILTON: Michael Clarke will return to New Zealand in time for Australia's two-match Test series, but his dash across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancee has prompted Ian Chappell to cast doubts over his suitability as a future Test captain.
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