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Aaron Naughton spearheaded a dominant Western Bulldogs performance, propelling them to a 60-point win over St Kilda on Thursday night.
Sport Journal
April 18, 2024
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🏉 Storm winger Xavier Coates clinched another game-changing try, securing Melbourne's 18-12 victory over the Roosters at Allianz Stadium.
Tied at 12-12 with six minutes left, Coates grabbed a loose ball and powered through three defenders to score, propelling the Storm to their ninth win in their last 10 matchups against the Roosters.
🇦🇺 Aaron Naughton spearheaded a dominant Western Bulldogs performance, propelling them to a 60-point win over St Kilda on Thursday night.
Naughton's six goals led the way in a goal-scoring clinic for the Bulldogs, who nailed their first 12 set shots of the game, sealing a comfortable 19.10 (124) to 9.10 (64) victory at Marvel Stadium.
🏊🏼♀️ Kaylee McKeown might have jumped the gun in ruling out the 400m individual medley from her Olympic plans in Paris.
The Queenslander dominated her competition for the second consecutive night at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast. She clocked in at 4:28.22, surpassing Stephanie Rice's national record in the event, a record that had stood since 2008.
This marks the second time in 24 hours that McKeown has broken an Australian record previously held by Rice.
The backstroke sensation, who claimed gold in the 100m and 200m races in Tokyo, also outpaced Rice's time on the opening night of the meet in her preferred 200m individual medley, posting a time of 2:06.99.
Coming off an important win over the Cowboys, the Parramatta Eels (1.44) will look to make it two on the trot when they ‘host’ the Dolphins (3.25) in Darwin. Wayne Bennett’s side is coming off its second loss of the season, that included an injury to Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow.
Each of the Dolphins' last seven night matches have gone UNDER the total match points line. (45.5pts)
Sean Russell has scored a try in five of his last six appearances outside of Sydney. (2.05)
Both sitting on three wins heading into Round 7, the St. George Illawarra (2.90) Dragons and New Zealand Warriors (1.53) will meet in Wollongong.
St. George Illawarra has lost eight of its last nine matches on a turnaround of five days or fewer.
In three of St. George Illawarra's last five matches at WIN Stadium, the opposition's starting left wing has been the first try-scorer. - Montoya (9.75)
Each coming off upset wins in Round 5, Adelaide (1.48) and Essendon (2.65) will meet at the Adelaide Oval on Friday night. The Crows overturned a 16-point final-quarter deficit to shock Carlton 100-98. Essendon beat the Bulldogs 96-67.
The Bombers were triumphant under the roof at Docklands in the single meeting between these teams last season, claiming a 115-97 victory to extend their winning streak against the Crows to six matches.
The underdog has covered the line in eight of Adelaide's last 10 night matches.(Essendon +13.5pts)
Rory Laird has recorded 27+ disposals in each of Adelaide's last nine matches against Essendon (exc. 2020 shortened matches).
Reds (1.44) Coach Les Kiss has rung the changes (largely forced) with several key members set to miss this game against the Highlanders (3.40) and the next few weeks as well through injury and suspension.
Despite going through a rebuild over the last few seasons, the Highlanders have a good record against the Reds, winning their last six meetings including a 35-30 epic in Dunedin last year in somewhat controversial fashion.
Each of the last 10 games in which the Queensland Reds have hosted the Highlanders have been decided by a margin of eight points or fewer on the day with the Reds winning seven of those 10 fixtures.
PICKS:
Eels v Dolphins - UNDER 44.5pts
Dragons v Warriors - Marcelo Montoya anytime try
Adelaide v Essendon - Essendon +13.5
Reds v Highlanders - Highlanders HT / REDS FT
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🐴 The final Group 1 feature race for two-year-olds in Sydney this season will see a field of eight get out to the mile at Randwick for the 2024 Champagne Stakes on Saturday.
Won by the likes of Pierro, Prized Icon, Castelvecchio and Militarize in recent editions, the Champagne Stakes boasts a lucrative $1 million purse this year and has drawn some exciting juveniles.
🐴 Stewards have opened an inquiry after a race at Tuncurry was started over a wrong distance on Thursday.
The Tuncurry Beach Bowling Club Bm58 Handicap was scheduled to run over 1205m but it was conducted from the 1305m start.
Ultimately the result stood with favourite confirmation with $1.75 favourite Cool Duke was confirmed as the winner.
🏏 Meg Lanning says that her relationship with food and exercise "spiralled" and led to her surprise international retirement.
Former captain Lanning, 32, retired in November 2023 after missing the summer's Ashes for medical reasons.
She said that she was running up to 90 kilometres a week and only eating two small meals a day.
"I was over-exercising and under-fuelling," Lanning told the Howie Games podcast.
"It sort of just spiralled and I was in denial, even though everyone kept telling me something wasn't quite right.
"I was not in a place to be able to go on tour and play cricket and give the commitment levels required for that Ashes series mentally and physically."
Lanning retired as one of the sport's most successful players and captains, leading her side to 50-over World Cup glory in 2022, four T20 titles and Commonwealth Games gold in 2022.
🏀 The Australian Boomers and Opals will each play a pair of exhibition games against China in Melbourne - in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics - headlining an event that will also feature the country's best basketball talent across other disciplines.
From July 2-5, the Boomers, Opals, 3x3 men's and women's teams, and both of Australia's wheelchair basketball teams will take part in games at Melbourne's John Cain Arena, in an initiative Basketball Australia and Visit Victoria are dubbing 'Ford BALLIN'24'.
The Boomers will face China on July 2 and July 4, while the Opals will have a pair of games against China on July 3 and July 5.
🏎️ Carlos Sainz is in talks with Red Bull over replacing Sergio Perez in 2025, the Formula 1 team’s chief Helmut Marko has confirmed.
With Sir Lewis Hamilton heading to Ferrari in 2025, Sainz is set to become a free agent at the end of the year, but after a brilliant start to the season he has options aplenty.
The Spaniard has been linked with Audi, who are set to takeover the Sauber team in 2026, and Mercedes, but following his victory in Australia, Christian Horner suggested he could sign the three-time race winner for Red Bull.
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6:49 PM • Apr 16, 2024
🏏 Former Australia batter Stuart Law has been appointed head coach of the USA men's national team.
Law will be in charge for the 2024 T20 World Cup which is being held in the USA and West Indies in June.
🏀 The Heat fear guard Jimmy Butler sustained a possible MCL injury to his right knee during Miami's 105-104 play-in tournament loss to the 76ers on, sources confirmed to ESPN. Butler will have an MRI today.
🏀 icymi: The Philadelphia 76ers came from behind to edge past the Miami Heat and reach the NBA play-offs.
A sluggish start saw the 76ers booed by the crowd as the Heat took a 51-39 half-time lead.
But Joel Embiid's 23 points and 20 from Nicolas Batum's, as well as 15 rebounds and five assists, led the 76ers comeback and secured a tense 105-104 win.
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6:52 PM • Apr 15, 2024
⚽️ Barcelona and Manchester City have held talks with the representatives of RB Leipzig's 25-year-old Spain midfielder Dani Olmo. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish)
⚽️ Liverpool could move for West Ham's Ghana forward Mohammed Kudus, 23, if 31-year-old Egypt striker Mohamed Salah leaves.
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