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🗞 A month-long festival
Sport Journal
July 16, 2023
G'day sports fans,
"Leaving out Dennis Lillee against England would be as unthinkable as the Huns dropping Attila" - TV commentator
🇦🇺 Aussie Sport
⚽️ With the FIFA Women’s World Cup just around the corner, Australian football fans are in for a month-long festival of football.
Obviously, the main focus for Aussies will be around the Matildas, as Tony Gustavsson’s side look to go deep into the tournament. The Matildas have never made it further than the quarter-final and went as far as the Round of 16 at the 2019 Women’s World Cup.
Matilda’s group games:
Thursday 20 July, 8pm: Australia v Republic of Ireland, Stadium Australia (Sydney/Gadigal)
Thursday 27 July, 8pm: Australia v Nigeria, Brisbane Stadium (Brisbane/Meeanjin)
Monday 31 July, 8pm: Canada v Australia, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (Melbourne/Naarm).
🏉 The heartbreaker absorbed by the Wallabies at CommBank Stadium can’t been seen as unlucky or down to a courageous Argentinian strike on full-time.
Poor discipline is killing the Australians just as it did in 2022. The last-gasp 34-31 loss sentences the Wallabies to a 0-2 start to World Cup year. (report)
🏊🏼 Kyle Chalmers has had a change of heart and won’t swim the 100m butterfly, choosing to focus on his pet event the 100m freestyle and packed program of up to five relays, at this month’s World Champs in Japan.
🏏 Australia’s women retained the Ashes with a narrow 3-run win. The tourists now lead points-based multi-format series 8-6 with one ODI to play. Georgia Wareham hammered 26 off final over as Australia post 282-7. Australia’s spinners too all 7 wickets, leaving England on 279.
SUNDAY WRAP
🏉 A Mitch Moses field goal helped the Eels to a hard-fought 25-24 win in dramatic scenes at CommBank Stadium on Sunday. (Highlights)
🏉 The Panthers withstood a late comeback from the Dolphins to come away with a 24-14 win at Kayo Stadium (match report)
🏉 The Warriors recorded their biggest-ever win over Cronulla, piling on eight tries for a 44-12 victory. (highlights)
🇦🇺 Hawks overcame some early inaccuracies to roll lacklustre Roos as they defied an inaccurate start to defeat North Melbourne by 48 points. (match report)
🇦🇺 In a scrap that failed to reach any great heights as a spectacle, the Tigers did what they needed winning 14.14 (98) to 8.12 (60) over West Coast, and climbing to 11th on the ladder. (match report)
🏉 The Wests Tigers are set to hold a crisis meeting in a bid to mend a reported feud between Benji Marshall and the club's head of recruitment, Scott Fulton.
Tigers CEO Justin Pascoe has been asked to help the pair see eye to eye after Marshall was angered by comments made by Fulton's godfather, Peter Peters, on radio.
🇦🇺 Carlton's Jordan Boyd is facing a ban of at least three matches after being sent directly to the AFL Tribunal for his dump tackle on Port Adelaide's Darcy Byrne-Jones.
And Adelaide forward Josh Rachele has been slapped with a two-match ban for striking GWS forward Jack Buckley. (espn)
📲 Sport Social
📺 Ange Postecoglou has a way of making struggling football teams win, and he's hoping to do just that at Spurs (60mins on Twitter)
🫄🏽 Just Aaron Rodgers signing a pregnant woman’s belly (Twitter)
🎾 Djokovic leaving for Wimbledon this morning... 'According to folk belief [in Balkan Peninsula countries], spilling water behind the person who goes on a journey or to do a job will bring good luck, and is done so that the travel or the job will end happily' (Twitter)
🇦🇺 Maurice Rioli was not happy about being subbed (Twitter)
⛳️ Wanna watch former President Donald Trump hit a massive shank (Twitter)
⚽️ No spoilers, but this is a very clever Football Advert (Twitter)
🌎 World Sport
🎾 Carlos Alcaraz won the Wimbledon men's singles title for the first time by ending Novak Djokovic's recent dominance with a stunning victory.
Spain's Alcaraz, 20, fought back from a nervy start to win 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-1 3-6 6-4 against the defending champion.
Djokovic was going for a fifth straight win, an eighth men's triumph and a 24th major - all record-equalling feats.
But the 36-year-old Serb was outlasted by top seed Alcaraz, who underlined his class by winning a second major title.
"It is a dream come true for me," Alcaraz, who was playing in only his fourth grass-court tournament, said.
🚴🏻 A spectator trying to take a selfie caused a crash on stage 15 of the Tour de France with about 20 riders coming off their bikes.
Jonas Vingergaard and Tadej Pogacar crossed the line side by side at the top of Saint-Gervais! The defending champion holds his lead over the white jersey (10 seconds).
Dutchman Wout Poels won his first Tour stage.
🏏 Major League cricket got underway at the weekend with some interesting and entertaining stuff on show. What a way to get out 🤣
⚽️ Netherlands midfielder Frenkie de Jong, 26, could be offered to Manchester City as part of a swap deal that would involve Portugal's Bernardo Silva, 28, going to Barcelona.
⛳️ Rory McIlroy edged a topsy-turvy battle in the North Berwick wind to win the Scottish Open despite a stunning final round from home hope Bob MacIntyre.
The Northern Irishman clinched his first-ever title in Scotland by a stroke at The Renaissance Club with a birdie on the 18th.
Next up: The Open Championship starts Thursday, at Royal Liverpool. Preview will be in Wednesday’s Sport Journal.
⛳️ Ugh, don’t you hate the guy that is good at everything? Here’s 4-time NBA Champion Steph Curry bagging a hole in one at the ACC Championship. (Twitter)
⚽️ Lionel Messi has finally officially signed for American MLS side Inter Miami [currently sit bottom of the Eastern Conference] on a deal that runs until 2025.
🏀 LeBron James will change his uniform back from No. 6 to No. 23 next season out of respect for Bill Russell.
The NBA permanently retired Russell’s uniform number last August after his death but allowed any current players sporting the number to continue wearing it.
James began his career with the Cavs wearing No. 23, went to No. 6 with the Heat, then went back to 23 in Cleveland, and then finally changed to 6 in June 2021.
📺 Live Sport TV Guide
TODAY
06:00 - PGA TOUR - Barbasol Championship, Round 4 (Fox Sports)
06:00 - NBA Summer League Semi-Final - Cleveland Cavaliers v Brooklyn Nets (ESPN)
08:00 - NBA Summer League Semi-Final - Houston Rockets v Utah Jazz (ESPN)
09:10 - MLB - Los Angeles Angels v Houston Astros (ESPN 2)
10:00 - NBA Summer League Consolation - Portland Trail Blazers v Miami Heat (ESPN)
12:00 - NBA Summer League Consolation - Los Angeles Clippers v Los Angeles Lakers (ESPN)
TUESDAY
10:05 - MLB - Texas Rangers v Tampa Bay Rays (ESPN 2)
11:00 - NBA Summer League - NBA Summer League Final (ESPN)
20:00 - Friendly Match - Tottenham v West Ham United (10 Bold or Paramount+)
21:30 - Tour de France, Stage 16, 22.4km (SBS)
23:00 - Women's ODI Series - England v Australia (GEM)
