THE cold-shooting NZ Breakers have crashed to their heaviest loss of the NBL season in Cairns but cling to the top of the standings.

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.

Stewards have passed the Randwick surface fit for racing.

ARCHIE Thompson’s superb hat-trick has earned Melbourne Victory a point in a topsy-turvy 3-3 draw with Sydney FC.

THE ceasefire between Australian and India finally ended yesterday when David Warner and Varun Aaron clashed.

In the moments after a collision left Australian international Hayley Raso with three broken vertebrae, she feared she may never walk again. Two months later she is back working towards fitness and a place at next year's World Cup finals.

NEWCASTLE’S long wait for a first win the season is over with a late Jeronimo Neumann strike sealing a shock 2-1 win over Adelaide United.

Being drawn in the group of death at a major tournament used to mean that one of the major favourites could expect to go home, but in the case of France, Germany, Portugal and Hungary at Euro 2020, that is not really the case.

Nathan Buckley pays tribute to his players after they rise to the occasion to beat the Demons in his final appearance as Magpies coach.

THE Origin tug of war over Souths half Luke Keary is finally over with NSW naming him yesterday in an emerging squad for 2015.