AUSTRALIA have overcome emotion, a determined Indian team and doubts about Nathan Lyon’s fourth-innings bowling to win the Test at Adelaide.

STEVE Smith was the Sydney Sixers’ captain for the corresponding match last year. Time flies, huh?

Following a shocking month of controversy, the Matildas finally have an interim coach, with former Socceroo Ante Milicic to take charge of the team through to the end of the Women's World Cup in July.

VIRAT Kohli last month launched his own 3D animation on his website. It features him as a manga superhero with a magical cricket bat.

AUSTRALIA have won two Tests but looks set to make two changes for Boxing Day, with Mitchell Marsh unlikely to be fit and Ryan Harris confident.

Vanessa Bryant is suing Los Angeles county and the Sheriff's Department after graphic photos from the site of the chopper crash that killed her husband and daughter were allegedly shared by officers.

CHRIS Harold has scored a brace and rising star Danny De Silva nailed a wonder goal to lift Perth Glory to a 4-1 win.

Australian tennis star Ash Barty says she is "not hiding anything" after fronting a press conference to explain her decision to retire from the sport at just 25 years of age. Re-live the blog and watch the conference replay.

One of track and field's oldest world records finally falls — as Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis clears 6.15m, beating the great Sergey Bubka.

WADE Ormsby has spent years picking the brain of Adam Scott and days enjoying his hospitality on Queensland's Gold Coast.

PHILLIP Hughes’ older brother Jason has made an emotional return to grade cricket and scored 63 _ the score his sibling was on when his life effectively finished.

ADAM Scott got the fast start he craved.

The Scot's career is almost certainly over after hobbling out of the Australian Open, but his legacy of fighting for every point will ensure he is remembered as one of the greats.

BOO Weekley shot to the lead in the opening round of the Australian PGA Championship yesterday.

SPARE us the coincidences. Everything was adding up to 63 after the Phillip Hughes tragedy. Everything else was equalling 408.

A fight between Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul breaks out after the YouTuber steals the boxing champion's hat during a face-off with his brother Logan ahead of next month's match.

The Australian's team were in all sorts of trouble in the opening race of the season in Bahrain, off the pace and fighting at the back of the field. Will things be different in Saudi Arabia?

Manly prop Addin Fonua-Blake is fined $20,000 and told to volunteer at wheelchair rugby league games for calling referee Grant Atkins "a f***ing retard" during a game on Sunday.

ALASTAIR Cook has been stripped of the England one-day captaincy two months before the Cricket World Cup, and replaced by Eoin Morgan.

Australia's most decorated cyclist, Cadel Evans, handed the baton to his young teammate Rohan Dennis yesterday.