🗞 Cruising to victory

June 21, 2022

G'day sports fans,

Genuine quote: "We are sick of stuff coming out of our club into the media all the time" - a Tigers source told Wide Wolrd of Sports.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🗓 ON THIS DAY 1911: Rugby League is played on the Sydney Cricket Ground for the first time. New South Wales and New Zealand meet at the SCG before 46,000 fans on King George V’s Coronation Day.

Official squads and team news for all 2022 Representative Round games including State of Origin and Test matches.

🏏 Australia were seemingly cruising to their victory target before they lost three wickets in nine balls – including David Warner stumped for 99 – as Matt Kuhnemann's late batting heroics fell just short.

Sri Lanka's spin barrage fired them to a first home one-day series victory over Australia in three decades in a thrilling fourth ODI that saw Australia come within one blow of an unlikely last-gasp victory in Colombo. (Cricket)

Sri Lanka 258 (49.0 overs) bt Australia 245 (50.0 overs) - Wanrer 99, Finch 0, Cummins (2-37 from nine), Marsh (2-29 from seven)

🇦🇺 Jordan De Goey has been slapped with a $25,000 suspended fine by Collingwood and has apologised for his "disrespectful" conduct while partying in Bali.

Footage emerged on social media last week of De Goey, who was given permission by the club to travel to Bali on his mid-season break, making rude gestures while at a nightclub.

The fine is suspended through to the end of the season and dependent on good behaviour.

The Pies also revealed they will put contract talks with the free agent on hold until the end of the year and couldn't guarantee his selection for Sunday's clash against GWS.o revealed they will put contract talks with the free agent on hold until the end of the year and couldn't guarantee his selection for Sunday's clash against GWS.

🇦🇺 Medical room: The full AFL injury list, R15: Who's struggling, who's a test, check out the players from your list who are a little sore (AFL)

🐴 Sean Buckley: How I sold $18m champ Nature Strip for $80k - an owner of a King's Stand winner in Miss Andretti and now the breeder of the latest one and world sprinting champion Nature Strip. (Racenet)

👊🏻 The UFC has acknowledged the appetite for fights down under and have given the strongest indication yet on when the premier MMA organisation will return to Australia.

Speaking at a media and fan event on Tuesday, UFC vice-president Peter Kloczko said it was only a matter of time.

"Absolutely, it's always our ambition to put on huge fights here in Australia with cards that make sense to the market," Kloczko said.

"It's a matter of timing and scheduling, but I'm hoping that window of opportunity emerges for us soon and probably, likely early next year."

🏊🏼‍♀️ Katie Ledecky dominated the 1500m free at the World Championships, winning by 14 seconds for the 17th gold and 20th medal overall in her career at Worlds.

🌍 World Sport

⚽️ Italian club Inter Milan have agreed a deal to sign striker Romelu Lukaku on a season-long loan from Chelsea.

⚽️ Arsenal have completed the signing of midfielder Fabio Vieira from Porto in a 40m euro deal.

🏉 Leinster scrum-half Nick McCarthy has said he "contemplated walking away from rugby" as he did not think he could come out as gay while playing the game.

"I came out to my teammates in January and I was obviously pretty nervous about doing so, but I'm really happy that I did it."

🥊 MEXICO CITY — 14,299 people attended a mass boxing class on Saturday at the Zócalo, Mexico City's main square, shattering the world record for the largest such class ever (previously: 3,250).

🏊🏼‍♂️ Hungary's Kristof Milak broke his own world record in the men's 200m butterfly with a time of one minute 50.34 seconds in Budapest.

⛳️ American Brooks Koepka & Abraham Ancer are set to quit the PGA Tour and join the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf series.

The four-time major champion, 32, is expected to play in the second 54-hole, 48-man tournament that runs from 30 June to 2 July in Portland, Oregon.

🏀 20 years old, 7 feet tall and weighs less than 200 pounds, meet Chet Holmgren, the most talented player from the NBA draft. (ESPN)

🏈 Rob Gronkowski has officially retired from the NFL.

  • 11 seasons

  • 92 TDs

  • 9,286 yards

  • 4x Super Bowl Champ

He will finish his career with US$70 million in earnings & notoriously didn't spend a dime of it, living solely off marketing money and business ventures.

🏀 SAN FRANCISCO — It was parade time in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Golden State Warriors closed out the Boston Celtics last week to win their fourth NBA title since 2015, while star Stephen Curry grabbed his first Finals MVP award. They took the moment away from trolling haters to celebrate with the home fans.

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