🗞 Great young hope

July 26, 2022

G'day sports fans,

Classic quote: "There is something magnetic about his aura. Paul Roos should be covered in fridge magnets" - broadcaster Dennis Cometti.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🗓 ON THIS DAY: 1990 - Aussie International Tom Moody scores 100 runs in just 26 mins in County cricket, a world record.

🦘 Australian cricket great and fierce North Melbourne supporter Ricky Ponting will meet with Alastair Clarkson this week to convince the four-time premiership mentor to be the Kangaroos’ next senior coach.

North Melbourne has sounded out Clarkson’s management about the former Hawthorn boss’ willingness to coach the side in 2023, with Clarkson a virtual certainty to return to the AFL coaching ranks next year.

The NRL action continues this week, with more testing times for those teams hoping to play finals football at the end of the year.

🏉 Sharks skipper Dale Fincuane has copped a two-game ban for his high shot on Stephen Crichton (a head clash that left Panthers centre Stephen Crichton requiring plastic surgery for a split ear). While Corey Waddell has been handed a five-match ban for eye-gouging Tino Fa’asuamaleaui. (NRL Judiciary)

🏉 With four teams locked on 20 league points and only six games to play, the fight to be part of the finals is on in earnest, and 4 Pines Park will be humming on Thursday. The Sea Eagles ($5.80) with seven first teamer's not taking part (updated story), in 9th, and Roosters ($1.44) 8th.

  • Nine of Sydney's last 10 matches have gone OVER the total match points line (+44.5).

  • James Tedesco scored at least one try in his last four appearances with Sydney as a favourite.

⚽️ Once the great young hope of Australian football, Daniel Arzani will seek to revive his career after signing with Macarthur FC for the 2022-23 A-League Men's season.

🇦🇺 The AFL released the fixtures for the final round, with the Demons scheduled to face Brisbane at the Gabba on Friday, August 19.

The match is set to have huge ramifications for the top-four hopes of both clubs. (ESPN)

FRIDAY, August 19 - Brisbane Lions vs. Melbourne at the Gabba, 7.50pm

SATURDAY, August 20

  • GWS vs. Fremantle at Manuka Oval, 1.45pm

  • North Melbourne vs. Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium, 2.10pm

  • Geelong vs. West Coast at GMHBA Stadium, 4.35pm

  • Essendon vs. Richmond at MCG, 7.25pm

  • Port Adelaide vs. Adelaide at Adelaide Oval, 7.30pm

SUNDAY, August 21

  • Hawthorn vs. Western Bulldogs at University of Tasmania Stadium, 1.10pm

  • Carlton vs. Collingwood at MCG, 3.20pm

  • St Kilda vs. Sydney at Marvel Stadium, 4.40pm

🌍 World Sport

🥇 icymi: Armand "Mondo" Duplantis cleared 6.21 meters (20 feet, 4.5 inches) to break his own pole vault world record for the fifth time on Sunday night.

🎾 Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz, 19 will become the youngest player in the top five of the ATP rankings since Rafael Nadal in 2005 after reaching the Hamburg Open final.

Nadal was under a month away from turning 19 when he became fifth in the world for the first time.

🎯 Gerwyn Price became the first player in history to hit four televised nine-dart finishes in one calendar year.

⚽️ Chelsea's move for Sevilla centre-back Jules Kounde is in danger of collapsing, with Barcelonaincreasingly optimistic they can land the 23-year-old France defender. (Guardian)

⚽️ Inter Milan and former Arsenal and Manchester United forward Alexis Sanchez, 33, is considering a move to Marseille. The Chile striker is out of contract at the end of the new season. (via Sun)

⚽️ The England women's team are on their way to the Euro finals, currently beating Sweden 3-0. What a finish... The goal of the tournament

🏀 Boston Celtics among teams to engage in talks with Brooklyn Nets on possible Kevin Durant deal, sources say (ESPN)

🤕 Sport governing bodies have been called on to acknowledge that repetitive head impacts cause a degenerative brain disease after new research found a causal link between the two.

The authors have found "conclusive evidence" that repetitive head impacts cause chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

🗞 Please share Sport Journal

📲 Share on WhatsApp HERE

🧑🏻‍💻 Share the link with a friend to sign up HERE

📺 Live sport 👇🏼

TODAY

⚾️ 09:10 - MLB Regular SeasonNew York Mets v New York Yankees (ESPN)

⚽️ 10:30 - Soccer Champions Tour - Barcelona v Juventus (Paramount+)

THURSDAY

🏏 03:30 - Twenty20 Series - England v South Africa (Fox Cricket)

⚽️ 05:00 - Women's Euro 2022 Semi-Final - Germany v France (Optus Sport 1)

⚾️ 09:10 - MLB - New York Mets v New York Yankees (ESPN)

🏉 19:50 - NRL - Manly Sea Eagles v Sydney Roosters(Fox League or Channel 9)