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G'day sports fans,
Classic quote: "I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly" - Greg Chappell
In today's edition of Sport Journal:
🏏 All you need to know for the BBL10 Finals
🏉 Tributes flow for Samoan hooker
🐴 Enthaar remains a dominant Blue Diamond favourite
...and much more!
🏏 Cricket
BBL10 Finals: All you need to know
Five teams remain, four matches to be played - here are the venues, times, dates and the rest as we launch into a massive Finals series.
Tuesday's triple-header delivered no shortage of entertainment and dramatic moments for fans, as victories to underdogs the Heat and Renegades over the Scorchers and Hurricanes respectively meant three teams were gunning for fifth spot heading into the season's final regular-round match.
Ultimately, Brisbane and Adelaide snuck through, and commencing Friday, it will be the Heat, Sixers and Thunder hosting Finals over three days.
The Sydney Sixers, Sydney Thunder and Brisbane Heat will host matches in the first week of finals action.
BBL|10 Finals schedule
Friday Jan 29: The Eliminator: Brisbane Heat v Adelaide Strikers, Gabba, 7.15pm AEDT
Saturday Jan 30: The Qualifier: Sydney Sixers v Perth Scorchers, Manuka Oval, 7.15pm AEDT
Sunday Jan 31: The Knock-Out: Sydney Thunder v Winner of The Eliminator, Manuka Oval, 7.15pm AEDT
Thurs Feb 4: The Challenger (Loser of The Qualifier v Winner of The Knock-Out)
Sat Feb 6: The Final (Winner of The Qualifier v Winner of The Challenger)
Fourteen wickets fell on an enthralling opening day of the first Test between Pakistan and South Africa in Karachi.
After opting to bat first, South Africa slipped from 133-3 to 220 all out, with opener Dean Elgar top-scoring with 58 and leg-spinner Yasir Shah taking 3-54.
Pakistan closed on 33-4, with Kagiso Rabada moving to 199 Test wickets following a spell of 2-8.
⚽️ Football
Melbourne Victory 2-1 Perth Glory: Jake Brimmer scored twice in the last four minutes against his former club as Melbourne Victory snatched their first points of the season in a dramatic 2-1 comeback win against Perth Glory.
Brimmer had not scored in 60 A-League games for Glory before signing for his hometown team in the off-season.
🇦🇺 Newcastle Jets favourite, Roy O'Donovan and his family became Australian citizens yesterday.
"We’re extremely honoured and proud to become Australian citizens and be part of Newcastle’s future."
👋🏼 Western United have parted ways with forward Apostolos Stamatelopoulos.
The 21-year-old played 12 A-League games for the Green and Black following a move from Adelaide United ahead of Western United's inaugural season. No word on his next club.
📺 Kayo to show (some) games for free.
Kayo Sports chief executive Julian Ogrin has revealed some A-League and W-League games will be available for free as Kayo tries to grow its subscriber base beyond 681,000. (SMH)
🚪 Thomas Tuchel is the new Chelsea Manager
Former Dortmund and PSG Manager Tuchel, has been appointed as Chelsea's new manager after the club sacked club legend Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge.
🐴 Racing
🐎 Trainer David Vandyke has black banned Eagle Farm telling his owners he won't run horses on the controversial surface. (racenet)
🇳🇿 Karaka Million standout Aegon will cross the Tasman to take on Australia’s best three-year-old Classic horses and potentially the Doncaster Mile this autumn. (racenet)
🙋🏼♀️ Premiership leading jockey Jamie Kah might have booked herself a Blue Diamond Stakes ride after General Beau became her 50th Melbourne winner of the season at Caulfield. A run would be subject to a $55k late entry fee. (Punters)
☝🏼Maher/Eustace-trained filly Enthaar ($3.50) remains a dominant Blue Diamond favourite following the running of the Previews at Caulfield on Tuesday.
Enthaar was at home on Tuesday as she awaits her return in Saturday's Group Three Chairman's Stakes over 1000m.
🏉 NRL
Tributes flow for Samoan hooker
The NRL and Samoan rugby league communities are in mourning following the tragic death of former Penrith and Wests Tigers hooker Masada Iosefa after a quad-bike accident near Darwin.
He suffered fatal injuries after crashing in the Northern Territory rural township of Herbert on Monday night, the day before his 33rd birthday.
The Samoan-born hooker made his NRL debut for the Panthers in 2008, aged 20, and played 43 matches for the club before switching to the Wests Tigers in 2012. He made a further 14 NRL appearances at the Tigers.
With a few roster changes across the board heading into 2021, NRL.com Stats has run the rule over the the strength and depth of each team's goal-kicking stocks.
🇦🇺 AFL
AFLW returns for its 2021 season determined to learn from its COVID-shortened 2020
In 2020, AFLW was called off with just the preliminary and grand finals remaining after the Federal Government banned all "non-essential" domestic travel in March.
AFLW fans have snapped up thousands of seats to round one of the competition on the first day that all women’s matches charged spectators an entry fee, with Richmond’s Punt Road Oval clash a sellout.
Tickets to AFLW games over the first four seasons have been free – save for a handful of matches where tickets were sold at $2 for operational purposes – but this year spectators will pay $10 entry.
The Tigers announced that Sunday’s Punt Road Oval clash with the Brisbane Lions had sold out in just over an hour, with a 1300-person capacity in place due to pandemic restrictions.
Callum Twomey on the new player movement landscape this year and beyond
🥇 Olympics
Tokyo 2020: Uncertainty persists over Olympics and Paralympics as IOC meets
When members of the International Olympic Committee's executive board dial in to their first video conference of the year today, they will do so amid mounting uncertainty over this summer's delayed Tokyo Games.
Last year's unprecedented postponement was arguably the biggest peacetime decision ever taken in sport. But that would be completely overshadowed by an actual cancellation.
If they happen, the Games will look very different to what we are used to. Athletes will be tested regularly, including before they board the plane to Japan. Their movements will be strictly regulated, their time in the village limited. There may only be Japanese fans, with those at venues asked not to shout.
🇺🇸 USA
Baby Goat vs Daddy Goat
In case you missed it; Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers to face Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 55 (8th Feb).
Quarterback Brady, 43, threw three touchdown passes to help the Buccaneers defeat the Green Bay Packers 31-26 in a thrilling NFC Championship game to reach their first Super Bowl in 18 years.
The Chiefs then beat the Buffalo Bills 38-24 to seal the AFC Championship, with touchdowns from Mecole Hardman, Darrel Williams, Clyde Edwards-Helaire and two from Travis Kelce.
Super Bowl 55 will take place at the Buccaneers' Raymond James Stadium and will be the first time a team has played in the NFL's showpiece in their home stadium.
It will be a 10th Super Bowl appearance for Brady and he will be seeking his seventh win - both of which are records.
The veteran will go up against the Chiefs' outstanding young quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
⛳️ The 2022 PGA Championship, which was withdrawn from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, will now be held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
🥊 UFC 257 generated roughly 1.6 million global buys, making it one of the best-selling UFC PPV's ever, SBJ's John Ourand reports.
📺 For the first time in 37 years, Budweiser is not airing a commercial during the Super Bowl.
The beer giant announced it will instead donate $1m to the Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative Vaccine Education Initiative.
Last year, parent company was the top marketer, spending an estimated $41 million on commercials — 10% of total ad revenue for the Super Bowl.
📺 Live sport
TODAY
⚽️ 06:45 - English League One - Ipswich Town v Sunderland (BeIN Sports 2)
⚽️ 07:15 - Premier League - West Bromwich Albion v Manchester City (Optus Sport 3)
⚽️ 07:15 - Premier League - Southampton v Arsenal (Optus Sport 2)
🏀 11:00 - NCAA - Alabama Crimson Tide v Kentucky Wildcats (ESPN 1)
🏀 12:00 - NBA - Houston Rockets v Washington Wizards (Sky Sports 2)
🏒 13:00 - NHL - Vegas Golden Knights v St. Louis Blues (ESPN 2)
🏀 13:00 - NCAA - Duke Blue Devils v Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (ESPN 1)
🏀 19:30 - NBL - Adelaide 36ers v New Zealand Breakers (ESPN 1)
THURSDAY
⚽️ 01:00 - Indian Super League - Kerala Blasters v Jamshedpur FC (Fox Sports) More
⚽️ 05:00 - Premier League - Burnley v Aston Villa (Optus Sport 2)
⚽️ 05:00 - Premier League - Chelsea v Wolverhampton Wanderers (Optus Sport 3)
⚽️ 06:30 - Premier League - Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham (Optus Sport 4)
⚽️ 06:30 - FA Women's Super League - Aston Villa Women v Chelsea (WomenOptus Sport App)
⚽️ 06:45 - Scottish Premiership - Hibernian v Rangers (BeIN Sports 2)
🏀 07:00 - EuroLeague - Real Madrid Basketball v Panathinaikos BC (Fox Sports)
⚽️ 07:15 - Premier League - Manchester United v Sheffield United (Optus Sport 3)
⚽️ 07:15 - Premier League - Everton v Leicester City (Optus Sport 2)
🏀 11:00 - NCAA Men's - South Carolina Gamecocks v Georgia Bulldogs (ESPN 2)
🏀 11:30 - NBA - Philadelphia 76ers v Los Angeles Lakers (ESPN 1)
🏀 14:00 - NBA - Golden State Warriors v Minnesota Timberwolves (ESPN 1)
⛳️ 15:00 - European Tour, Dubai Desert Classic, Round 1 (Fox Sports)
🇦🇺 19:15 - AFLW - Carlton Blues Women v Collingwood Magpies Women (Fox Footy)
🏀 19:30 - NBL - Cairns Taipans v The Hawks (ESPN 1)
⛳️ 22:30 - European Tour, Dubai Desert Classic, Round 1, Part 2 (Fox Sports)