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"I sort of knew we were gonna win as soon as that happened. I've been waiting for those chooks to lay for six months, and they lay last night. So I ate those eggs this mornin'." - Jeremy Cameron, on his pet chooks finally laying eggs.  

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🇦🇺 THE PREMIERSHIP celebrations continued for Geelong on Sunday, with thousands of fans flocking to Kardinia Park for the Cats' family day to celebrate the team's 81-point Grand Final triumph over Sydney.

Geelong's premiership heroes were presented to the adoring club faithful on stage as the club's faithful went wild. (AFL)

Geelong's popular water boy Sam Moorfoot was part of Sunday's celebrations and said Joel Selwood plucking him out of the crowd after the Grand Final was the "moment" of his life.

🏍 Australian Jack Miller delivered the ride of his life to claim the Japanese MotoGP in dominant fashion – and celebrated in style.

🏉 The Australian Prime Minister’s XIII flexed their muscles in a 64-14 win over a valiant Papua New Guinea side at Suncorp Stadium.

DCE looked classy to add to Meninga’s halfback headache 

Broncos young gun Selwyn Cobbo dazzled playing at left centre instead of his usual position on the right wing, Cobbo bagged two tries, tallied 166 run metres and made three linebreaks less than a month out from the World Cup.

⚽️ The Socceroos' bench sparkled in 2-0 win over New Zealand in final pre-World Cup friendly in Auckland

With several senior starters unavailable, Socceroos head coach Graham Arnold has had some depth questions answered in their final friendly before the World Cup.

🏉 Dolphins recruit Isaiya Katoa with a Golden Point field goal to seal the win for the Panthers over the Knights in the Jersey Flegg Grand Final, 19-18.

⛹🏻‍♀️ The Opals have defeated Serbia 69-54 on Sunday to boost their hopes of progressing to the knockout rounds of the women’s basketball World Cup. The victory was soured by an injury scare to Opals star Bec Allen, who had 16 points but pulled up gingerly after two separate incidents.

🏉 The 2023 NRL season will be the earliest kick-off in 22-years, (2-5 March), lasting 31 weeks, and in a bit of a shock for fans, every club will have three byes. The regular season will be run over 27 rounds with four weeks of finals.

🇦🇺 Dynamic midfield duo Ebony Marinoff and Anne Hatchard starred for the Crows, as Adelaide booted their highest-ever score in the 15.7 to 0.1 victory over the hapless Giants.

❤️ Former pro-surfer Chris Davidson is believed to have been killed in an alleged one-punch attack on the NSW mid-north coast on Saturday night.

Davidson was allegedly punched by another man, causing him to hit his head on the pavement and die.

🚴🏻 Aussie Michael Matthews landed a podium finish in the men's elite road race at the world road cycling championships in Wollongong, with Belgian Remco Evenepoel winning gold.

While Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel was arrested and charged with assaulting two teenagers in Sydney the night before the race.

🏉 NRLW: The Eels scored an upset 24-10 win over the previously undefeated Roosters, while the Knights — wooden-spooners last year — advance to the premiership decider after beating the Dragons 30-6.

🌍 World Sport

Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge has beaten his own world marathon record by 30 seconds, running 2hr 01min 10sec in Berlin on Sunday.

At the halfway point the back-to-back Olympic champion in Rio and Tokyo looked set to become the first to officially run under the elusive two-hour mark.

But despite slowing slightly, the 37-year-old held on to beat his own record from Berlin in 2018.

🏉 St Helens won a record-breaking fourth consecutive Super League Grand Final as they ended Kristian Woolf's tenure by comfortably beating Leeds Rhinos 24-12.

Woolf's now departs for newly-formed NRL side the Dolphins next season, as assistant to Wayne Bennett.

🏏 India completed a 3-0 series whitewash over England in the third and final one-day international after a controversial 'mankad' dismissal by Deepti Sharma. 

🥊 Britain's Joe Joyce walked through the best New Zealander Joseph Parker had to offer to knock out his rival in the 11th round of a thrilling fight in Manchester.

The heavyweights went toe-to-toe in a back-and-forth contest before a stunning left hook landed flush on the chin of Parker.

🏐 Mark O’Connor could line out for Dingle (Co. Kerry, Ireland) in next month’s Kerry SFC quarter-finals after claiming an AFL Premiership title with Geelong Cats.

The 25-year-old was a late replacement for hamstring victim Max Holmes.

The two-time All-Ireland winning minor, signed a new two-year contract with the Cats.

⚽️ Manchester United will trigger a 12-month option to extend to England forward Marcus Rashford's deal, which runs out next summer, if they cannot agree a new contract with the 24-year-old. (Daily Star on Sunday)

🥋 Hollywood actor Tom Hardy turned up to compete in a martial arts championship and proved he was a real-life action hero when he took part in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open 2022. He walked away with a gold medal after winning both his fights.

🎾 Novak Djokovic looked sharp as he thrashed US Open semi-finalist Frances Tiafoe at the Laver Cup in his first appearance since winning Wimbledon.

Serbia's Djokovic won the first set in 23 minutes before completing a 6-1 6-3 victory to put Europe ahead in London.

The former world number one also won in the doubles to put Europe into a 8-4 lead going into Sunday's final day.

Roger Federer, whose career came to an end in the early hours of Saturday, was on the bench to support Djokovic.

"It was a long and emotional day yesterday, it was hard to restart the engine," Djokovic said about Federer's farewell.

🥊 Floyd Mayweather Jr. took care of business against Manny Pacquiao-trained Japanese fighter Mikuru Asakura in an exhibition in Tokyo.

The 50-0 legend copped a few solid shots from the street fighter but as soon as Mayweather wanted to turn up the heat, he did.

In the end the American knocked out Asakura right at the end of the second round.

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