The winners of the Sports Performer of the Year Awards have been announced. Voted for by the passionate Australian public, see if your favourite picked up the coveted prize.
If excellence brings its own reward, then the A-League has reason to be grateful to Brisbane Roar. The coronation of the champions as the best team of the modern era has given the competition priceless credibility, and unprecedented exposure.
The newly crowned World Athlete of the Year, Sally Pearson, in Sydney yesterday. Photo: Edwina
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Australia's first World Athlete of the Year flew in from Europe at 1am on Tuesday, clocked a full training session on the Gold Coast, then flew to Sydney yesterday.
A debutant and a champion, who for all anyone knows is playing his last Test kept improbable victory on Australia's distant horizon, on yet another day of twists and turns at the Wanderers.
Cape Town: Pat Cummins has already excelled in Twenty20 and one-day cricket, but the teenage paceman is confident he can showcase his skills most effectively in Tests.
Cummins could make his Test debut for Australia in the second Test against South Africa in Johannesburg from Thursday in the wake of the capitulation in Newlands.
DES HASLER graduated from the school of thought that says the coach should be the dominant personality at a football club. It is a belief that has served him well, with three grand final appearances and two premierships in the past five years at Manly. The same belief hasn't hurt coaches such as Wayne Bennett and Craig Bellamy, either.
