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🏉 NRL has issued Brisbane Broncos players Payne Haas and AlbertKelly with Breach Notices alleging they brought the game into disrepute. The notice proposes Haas be suspended for 1 match and fined $10,000 and Kelly be suspended for 1 match and fined $5000.

🏏 Ricky Ponting, "Prithvi Shaw has got every bit of talent I had. I want to be able to turn him into a player that India". (On DC Podcast)

🏉 Nathan Cleary has reportedly been extended on a deal worth $1.1 million per season. Meanwhile, Ivan’s new contract will see him become of the NRL’s highest-paid coaches, with his deal being worth ‘well in excess' of $1 million a season.

🤕 Blues breathe huge sigh of relief as in-form captain gets positive news on hammy: Casualty Ward (Fox)

⚽️ Sam Kerr scored twice as the Matildas cruised to a 3-1 win over New Zealand in Canberra on Tuesday night.

Captain Kerr’s brace lifted her Matildas goal tally to 59 and propelled her team to a series clean sweep of the Football Ferns after a 2-1 victory in Townsville last week.

🏟 The 2026 Commonwealth Games will be held in regional Victoria. Four hubs will be established in Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat and Gippsland with the opening ceremony will be held at the MCG.

🏉 Wests Tigers chief executive Justin Pascoe has come under fire for going on a holiday while coach Michael Maguire is under pressure with the club unable to record a win in 2022. (Fox)

⛳️ After his fine showing at the Masters, Cameron Smith has jumped into the top five of the golf world rankings!

🏎 The Australian Grand Prix brought in nearly 420,000 fans to Albert Park during the weekend, a record for the circuit.

🏏 Marnus Labuschagne is happy to be in back in Glamorgan for the start of the County Championship season. This. Man. Loves. Cricket.

🌍 World Sport

🎾 Kim Clijsters has announced her retirement from tennis for the third time.

Clijsters won 41 WTA titles and spent 20 weeks as world number one in her two previous spells.

⚽️ Paris St-Germain have made Manchester United and France midfielder Paul Pogba, 29, a priority signing. (Footmercato - in French)

🏏 The USA have been granted automatic qualification for the Men's T20 World Cup in 2024 as the co-host nation, along with West Indies.

🤿 Egyptian swimmer Omar Hegazy, who lost his leg in 2015, broke the Guinness World Record for "longest distance swam underwater with one breath swimming over 185 feet.

⚽️ Fernandinho surprised Pep Guardiola by revealing he will leave Manchester City this summer and go back to his native Brazil to finish his career, in a press conference.

🏈 The Eagles have signed Olympic hurdler Devon Allen to a three-year deal. Allen, who last played football at Oregon in 2016, ran a blazing 4.35 40-yard dash in front of scouts last week

🚨 Heavy Weight Champion Tyson Fury's previous advisor Daniel Kinahan is wanted by the US Government as they offer a US$5MILLION reward for his arrest over international drug smuggling and money laundering.

🏎 FIA is launching a investigation into the incident where Russian driver Artem Severiukhin (competing under the Italian flag) appeared to show a nazi salute at the World Karting Championship. - He has since been sacked but denies allegations.

🤼‍♂️ Is WrestleMania bigger than the Super Bowl? WrestleMania 38 tallied 2.2 billion social media impressions and 1.1 billion video views, according to WWE and digital analytics firm Conviva. By comparison, Super Bowl LVI had 1.8 billion impressions and 618 million video views. WrestleMania did take place over two nights.

📺 Netflix is launching a documentary series similar to F1’s Drive to Survive that follows the 2022 Tour de France.

It is being produced by the same team that does Drive to Survive, and the series will follow 8 teams as they prepare & complete the iconic race.

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⚽️ 05:00 - UEFA Champions Lge Quarter-Final - Liverpool v Benfica (Stan Sport)

🏀 09:00 - NBA Play-In Game (9v10) - Atlanta Hawks v Charlotte Hornets (ESPN)

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🏀 19:30 - NBL - Illawarra Hawks v Sydney Kings (ESPN)

🇦🇺 19:35 - AFL - Brisbane Lions v Collingwood Magpies (Fox Footy or 7mate)

🏉 19:50 - NRL - Canberra Raiders v North Queensland Cowboys (Fox League or Channel 9)

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