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"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again." - Andrew Demetriou.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

🏏 Centuries to Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head helped Australia reach 3-330 at stumps on day one of the second Test against West Indies at Adelaide Oval.

Labuschagne continued his sparkling start to the summer with 120 not out in the pink-ball Test, his third consecutive three-figure score.

The men's world number one-ranked Test batter scored 204 and an unbeaten 104 in the first Test in Perth.

Head followed his teammate, bringing up his century 20 minutes before the close of play and going to stumps on 114 not out as the pair chalked up a 199-run fourth-wicket stand.

• Labuschagne's 428-run tally across three innings is already the third-highest by an Australian in a two-Test series.

🏏 David Warner's manager has dropped a bombshell by claiming that players were "told" to tamper with the ball by unnamed officials some 16 months prior to the 2018 sandpaper scandal that rocked Australian cricket.

Warner was vice-captain to Steve Smith when Cameron Bancroft was caught ball-tampering with sandpaper during South Africa's second innings in the famous incident in 2018.

"(Cricket Australia) were in the changing room in Hobart (in late 2016) and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa, and Warner said, 'we've got to reverse swing the ball, and the only way to reverse swing the ball is basically by tampering with it.

"So they were told to do it."

🇦🇺 Hawthorn will pay around $750,000 to cover the salaries of Tom Mitchell and Jaeger O'Meara, despite neither playing for them.

🐴 After the celebrated birth of her first foal two months ago, Winx has failed to fall pregnant again this breeding season.

This means the mighty mare will not produce her second foal until the spring of 2024 at the earliest – more than five years after she contested her final race.

🎾 Nick Kyrgios says Australia's negative attitude towards him made missing the Davis Cup an "easy decision" for the Wimbledon finalist.

"Maybe if Australia embraced me a little bit more, I would play it and bring home the trophy," he told AAP.

🏉 Former sprint star Trae Williams has returned to the Australian sevens team for the first time in two years after being recalled to the squad for the World Series tournament in Cape Town this weekend.

Williams, 25, was dubbed 'Quadzilla' in 2018 after running the 100m in 10.10s to qualify for the Commonwealth Games and become the fourth-fastest Australian of all time.

🐴 Huetor has overcome a mystery eye ailment that nearly ended his race career and will make an extraordinary, emotional comeback in the Group 2 $2m The Ingham (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

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🌍 World Sport

⚽️ PSV and Netherlands winger Cody Gakpo, 23, says he would "think" about joining Manchester United but has had no contact from the Premier League club. (NRC - in Dutch)

⚾️ Last season Aaron Judge bet on himself, turning down a $213.5 million offer from the New York Yankees.

According to multiple reports, the gamble paid off as the 30-year-old slugger agreed to a nine-year, $360 million deal with the team.

• Judge hit an American League record 62 home runs and won the AL MVP award in 2022.

• The Yankees increased their offer by about 70% in less than a year.

⚽️ The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) has denied that Cristiano Ronaldo threatened to leave the World Cup.

Portuguese publication Record claims the forward, 37, made the threat after being told he would not start their last-16 game against Switzerland.

🏈 After being released Monday in Charlotte, Baker Mayfield might play today in Los Angeles.

The quarterback is expected to be active against the Raiders for the Rams.

⚽️ Luis Enrique has left his role as Spain manager after they were knocked out of the World Cup by Morocco.

The 52-year-old took charge in 2018 and guided Spain to the Euro 2020 semi-finals, where they lost to Italy.

🏀 American officials said that Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the U.S. releasing notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

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