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In today's edition of Sport Journal:

🇦🇺 Injury updates

🎾 Must see: Kid with left-hand and right-hand power forehands 🤯

🥊 Wild head injury

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🇦🇺 AFL

Thursday Preview: Collingwood v Brisbane Lions: The Pies can rest a little easy knowing they’ve held the wood over Brisbane in recent years.

Collingwood made it six wins in a row over Brisbane with a famous 62-point win at the Gabba two years ago, although the Lions did get their revenge in a low-scoring contest last time these sides met.

• Six of Brisbane's last seven matches have gone OVER the total match points line. (172.5)

🦵🏽 Exciting Hawthorn defender Will Day will meet with a surgeon in coming days to determine the severity of his nasty ankle injury sustained on Sunday. (AFL)

❌ Richmond's Bigoa Nyuon has been banned for two matches for head butting Box Hill's Michael Hartley during a VFL practice match. (Fox)

🤕 The bad news has continued at Carlton, with star forwards Jack Martin and Zac Fisher both set for extended periods on the sidelines with injuries sustained in last week's defeat to Collingwood. (AFL)

🦵🏽 Gold Coast youngster Connor Budarick will miss the rest of the season following confirmation he has ruptured his ACL.

In further bad news for the Suns, tall forward Sam Day will also miss an extended period with a knee injury. (AFL)

🏉 NRL

Get set: Five-day NRL festival arrives for Easter weekend: It starts the Sea Eagles and Panthers at Lottoland on Thursday night, and goes all the way through until Easter Monday when the Wests Tigers host the Eels.

Thursday Preview: Sea Eagles (7.75) v Panthers (1.10): Hasler sticks solid; Crichton to fullback: The Panthers head into this match undefeated and on a high after beating premiers Storm, while the Sea Eagles appear in all sorts, being down on confidence after three straight losses. (match preview).

• Penrith has won each of its last four away matches by a margin of 13+ points.

• Each of Manly's last 7 matches have gone OVER total points line (40.5pts)

🤠 The Cowboys could be on the verge of a stunning coup, as they prepare to launch a bid to lure Adam Reynolds north. (nine)

🤕 The ARL Commission has ticked off on a significant change to the NRL, introducing a concussion sub. An 18th player will be added to NRL game day squads from Round 5. (nine)

🔁 Following the injury carnage of last week, it's all-change this time around: the most notable name is the debut of Roosters teen prodigy Sam Walker who will step into the halves.

Joseph Suaalii has also been named in Trent Robinson's extended squad. (NRL)

⚽️ Football

A-League Match Stats:

Western United (4.80) v Melbourne City (1.60):

• Melbourne City has won each of its last six A-League matches.

• The 'Over 2.5 Goals' market has hit in five of Melbourne City's last six A-League matches at AAMI Park.

Central Coast Mariners (2.02) v Adelaide United (3.25):

• The underdog has won each of Adelaide's last six A-League matches.

• The 'Over 3.5 Goals' market has hit in each of Adelaide's last six A-League away matches.

🦘The A-League finals series will be heavily depleted of Australia's best players with the Socceroos to select an extended full-strength squad for their June World Cup Qualifiers, while at the same time the Olyroos will likely form camp in Europe. (SMH)

👋🏼 Record goalscorer Sergio Aguero will leave Manchester City at the end of the season, the club has announced.

The 32-year-old striker's contract expires at the end of the season and he has been told it will not be renewed.

The Argentine, who signed from Atletico Madrid in 2011, has scored 257 goals in 384 appearances for the club.

Barcelona and PSG, are seen as favourites to land four-time Premier League winner Aguero, who has also been linked with Real Madrid and Juventus. (Manchester News)

🐴 Racing

🌾 Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside will head to the spelling paddock rather than run in Saturday week’s Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick.

On Monday, connections were giving consideration to running the valuable colt in the 1400m feature on the first day of The Championships but within 24 hours the plans were changed. (racenet)

📺 The rides on Think It Over and Avilius, were nothing short of outstanding in the George Ryder Stakes. (Twitter)

🏏 Cricket

🙋🏼‍♀️ New Zealand produced a thrilling last-ball victory to beat Australia by four wickets and level the three-match Twenty20 series at 1-1.

Needing three from the final ball of the match in their chase of 130, Maddy Green under edged Nicola Carey for four to secure a fine win.

🤔 New Zealand soar to T20 series win after DLS drama: Play was paused two overs into Bangladesh's run chase to recalibrate the DLS target. NZ won by 28 runs.

🐟 England fast bowler Jofra Archer has had surgery on his right hand after Ashley Giles revealed he suffered the injury cleaning a fish tank at his home.

Giles, England's director of cricket, said: "He's got a fish tank, dropped the fish tank and cut his hand."

🏉 Rugby

🤞🏼 Rugby Australia remains “optimistic” that the Super Rugby trans-Tasman sprint competition will go ahead as planned despite eight newly acquired COVID cases in Queensland. (Fox)

👯 New Zealand are looking to co-host this year's Rugby Championship with a southern hemisphere partner, but South Africa have ruled themselves out and Australia want to go it alone. (Rugby)

🤣 Wallabies legend Tim Horan tells a great story of getting busted by master coach Eddie Jones, whilst he was a selector for the Wallabies.

"He was really particular – you had to watch every game, every video, you'd watch four or five games a week and you really had to be particular about watching the games and who was playing and why. I actually remember one time the Waratahs played and I couldn't make the game.

"I was at a 40th birthday party and every Sunday morning we always had a meeting. I came back to Eddie in the meeting and I hadn't seen the game.

"I knew the Waratahs had won and I said to Eddie 'gee I thought Nathan Grey was wonderful in the centres, what a player he is and gee he had a great match last night.'

"He just looked at me and said 'maaate – he didn't play maaate, he got injured in the warmup.' So I think that was my last game as selector."

Horan was replaced by Michael O'Connor as a Wallabies selector. (nine)

🌏 ROW

🎾 Footage of Teodor Davidov competing in the under-12s division of a junior tournament in America on the weekend has gone viral after he showed off the incredibly rare skill of possessing a right-handed and left-handed forehand.

Davidov had no need for a backhand, alternating between holding the racquet in his left and right hands to strike traditional forehands off either wing.

A clip of the unusual approach has been viewed more than 320,000 times on Twitter, and former pro and tennis administrator Paul McNamee believes it’s only a matter of time until we see it on the ATP or WTA tours.

“I’ve always felt that is the next development in tennis, having two ‘King’ forehands,” McNamee tweeted. “Just imagine facing Rafa’s forehand on both sides...too good.

🏀 Former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook smashed records with a first-ever 35-point, 20-rebound triple double (for his franchise), as he demolished the Washington Wizards.

🏑 Katrina Powell has been tasked with turning the Hockeyroos from a “dysfunctional” program into gold medallists inside four months, with Hockey Australia announcing her as Paul Gaudoin’s successor. (Fox)

🥊 Tim Tszyu v Dennis Hogan: Hogan wants to have his sponsor, PointsBet, represented on his fight shorts but Tszyu's camp, isn't having a bar as it directly clashes with their partner Sportsbet.

Hogan has threaten to not turn up. "I don't care," he told reporters. "I'm not coming out unless I've got my sponsors on there.

The winner will have a right to a shot at the WBO super welterweight title.

Venue: Newcastle's Entertainment Centre, the fight is expected to start tonight at 7 pm Sydney and Melbourne time.

🥊 A German boxer was left with a nasty injury that forced her bout to be abandoned: Cheyenne “Pepper” Hanson, 23, clashed heads with opponent Alina Zaitseva from Ukraine and her face dramatically swelled up into a massive haematoma, forcing the fight to be called off. Luckily she seemed to have no lasting damage.

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📺 Live sport 👇🏼

🎾 10:00 - WTA Miami Open, Quarter-Final (BeIN Sports 2)

🏀 10:15 - NCAA Men's Elite Eight - Gonzaga Bulldogs v USC Trojans (ESPN 1)

🏀 12:00 - NBA - Denver Nuggets v Philadelphia 76ers (Sky Sports 2)

🏀 12:00 - NCAA Women's Elite Eight - Stanford Cardinal v Louisville Cardinals (ESPN 2)

⚾️ 12:10 - MLB Pre-Season - Los Angeles Dodgers v Los Angeles Angels (Sky Sports 3)

🏀 12:57 - NCAA Men's Elite Eight - Michigan Wolverines v UCLA Bruins (ESPN 1)

🏏 14:00 - Marsh One-Day Cup - New South Wales Blues v Queensland Bulls (Fox Cricket)

🥊 19:00 - Tim Tszyu v Dennis Hogan (Main Event, available on Foxtel and Kayo)

⚽️ 19:35 - W-League - Sydney FC Women v Melbourne Victory Women (Fox Sports)

THURSDAY

⚽️ 05:45 - UEFA World Cup Qualifiers:

• Spain v Kosovo (Optus Sport 3)

• Lithuania v Italy (Optus Sport 2)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina v France (Optus Sport 5)

• Scotland v Faroe Islands (Optus Sport 6)

• England v Poland (Optus Sport 1)

• Germany v North Macedonia (Optus Sport 4)

🎾 06:00 - ATP Miami Masters, Quarter-Finals (BeIN Sports 1)

🏄🏻‍♀️ 07:00 - Women's Newcastle Pro, Day 1 (Fox Sports or Kayo Sports)

🏄🏻‍♂️ 07:00 - Men's Newcastle Pro, Day 1 (Fox Sports or Kayo Sports)

🎾 10:00- WTA Miami Open, Quarter-Final (BeIN Sports 1)

🏀 10:30 - NBA - Boston Celtics v Dallas Mavericks (ESPN 1)

🎾 12:00 - ATP Miami Masters, Quarter-Finals (BeIN Sports 1)

🏒 13:00 - NHL - Vegas Golden Knights v Los Angeles Kings (ESPN 2)

🏏 13:00 - Women's Twenty20 Series - New Zealand v Australia (Fox Cricket)

🏀 13:00 - NBA - Los Angeles Lakers v Milwaukee Bucks (ESPN 1)

🏏 17:00 - Twenty20 Series - New Zealand v Bangladesh (Fox Cricket)

⚽️ 17:35 - A-League - Western United FC v Melbourne City (Fox Sports)

🏀 19:30 - NBL - Illawarra Hawks v Sydney Kings (ESPN 1 or SBS on Demand)

🇦🇺 19:40 - AFL - Collingwood Magpies v Brisbane Lions (Fox Footy or 7mate)

⚽️ 19:40 - A-League - Central Coast Mariners v Adelaide United (Fox Sports)

🏉 20:05 - NRL - Manly Sea Eagles v Penrith Panthers (Fox League or Nine)

🏀 21:30 - NBL - Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers (ESPN 1 or SBS on Demand)