🗞 It's an emotional time

G'day sports fans,

"I've said time and time again, Stuey's our coach, contracted for this year and next year. If he does a good job, he'll be contracted well into the future," - Suns Chief Exec Mark Evans (just 6 days ago).

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🇦🇺 If you missed it - Gold Coast have sacked coach Stuart Dew as the Suns appear destined for a 13th-straight AFL season without playing finals.

Dew has been let go with a year to go on his contract as Gold Coast almost certainly prepare to make a play for three-time Richmond premiership coach Damien Hardwick.

"It's an emotional time for him and the club," captain Touk Miller told reporters on Tuesday.

It’s further proof the Gold Coast is the ‘death zone’ for Australian sporting teams, hopes and dreams.

🇦🇺 TRIBUNAL: Richmond will be without co-captain Toby Nankervis for three weeks after the AFL Tribunal banned him for the brutal bump that left Sydney's Jake Lloyd concussed.

A remorseful Nankervis admitted he needed to "be a lot better than that", apologising to Lloyd's family and friends before he was handed the ban.

Fremantle midfielder Caleb Serong will join him on the sidelines, failing in his appeal to overturn a one-match ban for a dangerous tackle on Carlton’s Adam Cerra.

Earlier on Tuesday, Essendon ruckman Andrew Phillips accepted a one-match ban for a high bump on Adelaide's Reilly O'Brien.

🏉 Official team lists, updates and injury news for Round 20 of the 2023 Telstra Premiership season. (NRL)

• Knights: Centre Dane Gagai returns.

• Bulldogs: Josh Addo-Carr is named to back up from Origin III.

• Roosters: Brandon Smith & Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii among the returning players.

🏉 Eels player Dylan Brown has vowed to stop drinking alcohol as he works to regain the trust of those around him after being found guilty of sexually touching a woman without her consent on an alcohol-fuelled night out.

He received an 18-month community corrections order, a $40,000 fine and seven-game ban from the NRL, and a $20,000 fine from the Eels that will be donated to a charity chosen by Brown and the club. (espn)

⚽️ Australian captain Sam Kerr says her side will embrace the high excitement of its fans at the World Cup as a squad veteran calls the escalating interest in the women’s game “pretty crazy”.

The Matildas were presented their playing tops in front 4,000 raucous fans at Melbourne’s Federation Square on Tuesday.

🏎 Daniel Ricciardo has made a shock return to Formula One as Nyck de Vries' replacement at Red Bull's second team, AlphaTauri, for the rest of the season.

Ricciardo, who took a step away from racing this year as Red Bull's third driver, will return to the grid from the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 23.

The eight-time race winner told ESPN last month that the "fairytale" end to his F1 career would be a return to the Red Bull team he left in 2018.

STATE OF ORIGIN III SGM with Dabble

Six of the last 7 State of Origin II matches have gone under total points.

In seven of the last 8 dead rubbers the side trailing the series has won.

Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow has scored at least one try in each of his three previous Origin appearances.

Josh Addo-Carr has scored two tries in two of his three previous Origin appearances when trailing in the series.

Josh Addo-Carr has scored two tries in two of his three previous Origin appearances when trailing in the series.

BLUES SGM: Blues win, Under 40.5pts, Addo-Carr 1st try - 34.0

MAROONS SGM: Maroons Win, Tabuai-Fidow 1st try, Total points (odd) - $81.0

🌎 World Sport

🏏 Major League Cricket (starts 13th July) - it could well be big news for the sport.

• 63 million Americans engage with cricket annually — around 40% of those weekly.

• The first MLC season lasts three weeks with a total of six franchises, then gradually expand in terms of venues and schedule.

• MLC is backed by many prominent investors, some of which have relevant South-Asian roots, including Microsoft CEO @satyanadella and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.

• Aussie players include: Adam Zampa, Matthew wade and Moises Henriques, Marcus Stoinis and Aaron Finch.

🏈 We’ve been waiting for this one: Go inside the huddle and into the homes of Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota in this candid docuseries following their 2022-23 NFL season. ‘Quarterback’, is streaming July 12 on Netflix.

🏏 England have named an unchanged 14-player squad for the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.

It means there is no place for Surrey wicketkeeper Ben Foakes, with Jonny Bairstow set to retain the gloves.

📺 The British and Australian Prime Ministers go tit for tat with Ashes ‘bants’ (Twitter)

🥊 Francis Ngannou will fight Tyson Fury on Oct. 28 in Saudi Arabia, per @MikeCoppinger. Ngannou officially left the UFC earlier this year — and now he has his big payday lined up.

⛳️ Royal Birkdale will host the 154th Open Championship in July 2026. The Southport golf course has hosted The Open 10 times and American Jordan Spieth was the last player to lift the Claret Jug at the venue in 2017.

🏀 Victor Wembanyama's summer league has officially come to an end, with the San Antonio Spurs deciding Monday to shut down the No. 1 pick in last month's NBA draft after a stellar second game here in Sin City.

Wembanyama, bounced back from a dubious debut with a 27-point, 12-rebound performance in a loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday.

🏃🏽‍♀️ Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya was discriminated against by rules forcing her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete, the European Court of Human Rights has found.

The 32-year-old South African was born with differences of sexual development (DSD) and is not allowed to compete in any track events without taking testosterone-reducing drugs.

A three-time 800m world champion and 800m and 1500m Commonwealth champion, Semenya has been in a long-running dispute with World Athletics since regulations requiring her to have hormone treatment were introduced by the governing body in 2018.

📺 Live Sport TV Guide

🗓️ TODAY

08:00 - NBA Summer League - Milwaukee Bucks v Brooklyn Nets (ESPN 2)

10:00 - MLB All-Star Game - National League v American League (ESPN)

10:00 - NBA Summer League - New Orleans Pelicans v Phoenix Suns (ESPN 2)

12:00 - NBA Summer League - Sacramento Kings v Chicago Bulls (ESPN 2)

20:05 - State of Origin - New South Wales Origin v Queensland Origin (Channel 9)

21:20 - Tour de France, Stage 11, 180km (SBS)

22:00 - Women's ODI Series - England v Australia (9Go!)

🗓️ THURSDAY

06:00 - NBA Summer League - Atlanta Hawks v Minnesota Timberwolves (ESPN 2)

08:00 - NBA Summer League - Detroit Pistons v Toronto Raptors (ESPN 2)

10:00 - NBA Summer League - Orlando Magic v New York Knicks (ESPN 2)

12:00 - NBA Summer League - Boston Celtics v Los Angeles Lakers (ESPN 2)

19:20 - AFL - Sydney Swans v Western Bulldogs (Fox Footy or Channel 7)

21:20 - Tour de France, Stage 12, 169km (SBS)