🗞️ Pinch me, I'm dreaming

AUSSIE SPORTS
Absolute Scenes

🐴 dtychmi: (don’t think you could have missed it): Knight's Choice stunned the racing world to take out the Lexus Melbourne Cup.

The John Symons and Sheila Laxon-trained runner saluted in the $8.5 million feature at Flemington with jockey Robbie Dolan in the saddle.

The five-year-old gelding paid $81 fixed odds with TAB.

"Pinch me, I'm dreaming," Dolan told Nine's Billy Slater post-race.

Pre-race favourite Buckaroo was shuffled too far back in the field to make a splash late, while highly-fancied overseas raider Vauban failed to fire for a second-straight Cup.

🤢 Makes you sick: One punter scored a $728,000 win after mystery first four bet was placed from a $24 wager.

TAB also paid out $81,000 to one winner after placing a $1000 bet on the horse at $81.

🏉 Morgan Turinui is tipping Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii to make a stunning Test debut for the Wallabies against England on Sunday (AEDT).

"The Wallabies staff, players, everyone around the environment has been super impressed - attitudinally and athletically, of course, with Joseph, straight away in training..."Possibly off the bench is the most easy way to do it."

NRL NEWS
Smooth Talker

🗣️ Clint Gutherson's talks with the Dragons are not going as smoothly as the star expected, with his camp frustrated with the pace of negotiations, reports 9News' Danny Weidler.

The Parramatta Eels granted Gutherson an immediate release from the final year of his contract, to allow him to link with the Dragons, who had expressed strong interest in the fullback.

Negotiations between club and player got serious just hours after the club parted ways with Ben Hunt.

Gutherson, who was on a deal of about $900,000-a-season at Parramatta and was expected to land at the Dragons on a similar contract, was reportedly on the verge of inking a three-year deal with the club but that has stalled.

⏰ Brandon Smith’s time at the Roosters could be coming to an end, with Tricolours powerbrokers reportedly unlikely to extend his stay beyond 2025.

That is according to the SMH’s Michael Chammas, who revealed the club could “move in a different direction” ahead of the 2026 season.

The Roosters have already lost the likes of Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Luke Keary, Joseph Suaalii and Joseph Manu ahead of the 2025 season.

WORLD NEWS
Djokovic Withdraws

🐷 I’ll save you the image whilst you eat your breakfast but, in the crazy world of South America Football, A pig's head was thrown on to the pitch during a game between Sao Paulo rivals Corinthians and Palmeiras in the Brazilian championship.

Alberto went on to score as Corinthians won the game 2-0.

"I almost broke my foot, I thought it was a cushion, I went to take it off with my foot, I kind of kicked it. It was a pig's head, I almost hurt my foot," - Alberto told O Globo's SporTV.

🎾 Defending champion Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the ATP Finals because of an "ongoing injury".

The 37-year-old Serb, who has won a record seven titles at the event, had already qualified as the sixth most successful player on the ATP Tour this season.

"I was really looking forward to being there, but due to ongoing injury I won't be playing next week," Djokovic wrote on social media.

🎾 Jessica Pegula was knocked out of the WTA Finals with one group match still to play as she fell to a lacklustre straight-set defeat by Barbora Krejcikova.

Wimbledon champion Krejcikova won 6-3 6-3 against a below-par Pegula for her first victory at the season-ending tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

🏈 Cowboys QB Dak Prescott will miss "multiple games" after injuring his hamstring during Sunday's loss to the Falcons. Cooper Rush will start in his place. (Yahoo)

📸 Pic of the week: A Rangers supporter sets off a smoke flare during Sunday's 2-1 win over Motherwell in the League Cup semi final.

⚽️ EPL Whispers: Inter Milan and Barcelona eye move for Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez, Arsenal target Newcastle's Alexander Isak and Manchester United face battle to sign Sporting's Geovany Quenda.

🏀icymi: The Cleveland Cavaliers matched a franchise record by winning their first eight games of the season as they edged a 116-114 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Cavaliers matched a record set in 1976-77 with a win in which Darius Garland scored a game-high 39 points against a Bucks side without the injured Giannis Antetokounmpo.

🏀 Ja Morant broke the internet with a soaring, 360 layup on Monday. Then 10 minutes later, he did it again.

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