🗞️ ‘Who’s your daddy now?’

AUSSIE SPORTS
Hoodoo Continues

⛹🏻‍♀️ Australia’s horror New Zealand hoodoo has rolled on, with the Diamonds suffering a record 14-goal loss to the Silver Ferns on Sunday.

It’s Australia’s worst Constellation Cup loss in more than a decade – and comes at the exact venue of that 19-goal horror show at TSB Bank Arena in Wellington in 2010.

The 64-50 result ensures Diamonds coach Stacey Marinkovich slumps to an eighth loss in just nine games at the helm in New Zealand - and is the highest regular time score ever set by the Silver Ferns against Australia.

The result also goes down as the second-worst loss for Australia in Constellation Cup history.

🐴 Caulfield Cup winner Duke De Sessa's most likely next start will be at Flemington – but it won't be in the Melbourne Cup.

Duke De Sessa, now with a taste for success, will be set for the $3 million Group 1 Champion's Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on November 9.

In the Everest, Giga Kick ($15.92 BSP) traded at $1.03 before being beaten on line by Bella Nipotina ($8.62 BSP).

🥊 icymi: A classy Tim Tszyu conceded “the better man won tonight” after suffering a shock third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in Orlando on Sunday.

Tszyu was no match for the undefeated Russian, who knocked him down three times in the second round alone before going on to finish the job in the third, leaving the Australian’s corner with no choice but to throw the towel in.

It left Tszyu’s career at crossroads and while it was obviously a lot to process when speaking in the ring after the defeat, the 29-year-old was all class with his response to the loss.

Murtazaliev was hoisted onto the shoulders of one his team and was heard shouting “Who’s your daddy now?” after taking down the son of the legendary Kostya Tszyu.

🏍️ MotoGP: Australia had a home rider take their maiden world championship podium at Phillip Island for a second straight year on Sunday, with Sydney teenager Senna Agius finishing third in the intermediate-class Moto2 category after storming through from 13th on the grid. 

NRL NEWS
Failed Test

🚨 Broncos superstar Ezra Mam’s $4 million contract is reportedly at risk of being terminated after he was involved in a car crash in Brisbane on Friday night.

Vision of the moments before the crash has emerged as police awaits results of a second drug test after the Broncos playmaker allegedly failed an initial roadside test.

Mam was hospitalised following the two-car collision with an Uber driver, and The Daily Telegraph is reporting Michael Maguire is set to clamp down on player conduct ahead of his first season at the helm of the Broncos.

🤣 Reports are this was Ezra Mam when police questioned him at the scene…(Twitter)

AFL NEWS
Box Seat

🏆 Following the completion of the 2024 trade and free agency period that saw 28 players find new homes, tipsters are making assertions as to who will rise to the top of the mountain next year.

Brisbane are early contenders for back-to-back flags despite losing Joe Daniher to retirement.

AFLW WRAP: Geelong put a dent in Brisbane's top-two hopes with an upset 10-point win.

Not even a late flurry of Lions goals could prevent the 7.5 (47) to 5.7 (37) Cats victory on a sunny GMHBA Stadium.

North Melbourne's cruised to a dominant 51-point victory against Essendon, putting them in the box seat for a maiden AFLW minor premiership.

Adelaide firmed up a top-four spot with a comfortable 43-point win over Collingwood in a match that was in some danger of being halted before it even began.

WORLD NEWS
Liverpool Top

⚽️ EPL WRAP: Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League with victory over Chelsea at Anfield as manager Arne Slot's outstanding start continued.

The Dutchman is the first Liverpool boss to win 10 of his first 11 games, this latest triumph sending them a point clear of Manchester City.

John Stones' dramatic stoppage-time winner sent Manchester City to the top of the Premier League with a come-from-behind 2-1 win at battling Wolves.

As the City players celebrated, the linesman raised his flag to indicate offside, with Bernardo Silva stood in front of Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa as the ball went into the net.

The VAR reviewed the offside decision, and then recommended referee Kavanagh check the pitchside monitor.

Replays showed Silva ducking and not in Sa's line of sight, so Kavanagh awarded the goal.

🏈 The Jacksonville Jaguars came from behind to ease the pressure on under-fire coach Doug Pederson with a 32-16 win over the New England Patriots in London.

⛳️ Frenchman Julien Guerrier ended his long wait for a maiden DP World Tour title after he beat Spain's Jorge Campillo in a record-equalling nine-hole play-off at the Andalucia Masters.

🏎️ LIVE NOW: McLaren’s Lando Norris beat title rival Max Verstappen’s Red Bull to pole position at the United States Grand Prix with what he said was “the best lap of my career”. The race is live now on Fox Sports.

🏏 New Zealand were crowned surprise champions of the Women's T20 World Cup with a comprehensive 32-run win over South Africa in Dubai.

The White Ferns had lost 10 successive matches coming into the tournament, and this is their first T20 title, after losing successive finals in 2009 and 2010.

In a good day for New Zealand Cricket, captain Tom Latham said it was a "proud moment" after his side claimed their first Test victory in India for 36 years - and only their third ever.

Latham had to watch from the dressing room after being removed for a duck by Jasprit Bumrah as the visitors chased 107 to win.

⚾️ The New York Yankees booked their place in the World Series for the first time since 2009 by beating the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in their best-of-seven American League Championship series final.

The Yankees will face either the Los Angeles Dodgers or the New York Mets in the World Series. The Dodgers lead their National League series final 3-2.

⚽️ Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami have been named as the latest addition to the Fifa Club World Cup in 2025.

The expanded 32-team tournament will be held in the United States in 2025 from 15 June to 3 July next year.

The tournament will be made up of 12 teams from Europe, six from South America, 12 from Asia, Africa and North America with the final two spots going to one club from Oceania and another from the United States - the host nation.

🏍️ Newly-crowned two-time World Superbike champion Toprak Razgatlioglu has won the final race of the season at Jerez.

The Turkish rider, who clinched his second title on Saturday, defeated Ducati's Nicolo Bulega - his nearest challenger in the standings - in an exciting race.

👊🏼 An emotional Francis Ngannou marked his return to mixed martial arts with a first-round stoppage of Renan Ferreira at the PFL Super Fights event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Cameroon's Ngannou knocked out Ferreira with some brutal ground strikes in his first MMA contest in nearly three years.

The 38-year-old shed tears as he dedicated the victory to his late 15-month-old son Kobe, who passed away earlier this year.

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