🗞 Night of Nights

September 18, 2022

G'day sports fans,

"The Saints warmed up by doing two laps around Lockett" - Jack Dyer on Tony Lockett.

🇦🇺 Aussie Sport

ON THIS DAY

🏉 1978: Manly down Cronulla 16-0 in the grand final replay. Despite controversy along the way, Manly’s win ranks as one of the great premiership victories. The Sea Eagles come through six finals matches, five of them sudden-death, including two replays in just 24 days.

🏏 1986: Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras

🏊🏼 1988: Australian swimmer Duncan Armstrong sets a world record of 1:47.25 to win the 200m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; she beats Anders Holmertz of Sweden by 0.64

🏅 AFL NIGHT OF NIGHTS

🇦🇺 Carlton captain Patrick Cripps has won the 2022 Brownlow Medal, with the brilliant midfielder winning the game's highest individual honour in a thrilling count on Sunday night.

Cripps polled 29 votes to win from 2020 medallist Lachie Neale (28), Gold Coast star Touk Miller (27), and Fremantle midfielder Andrew Brayshaw (25), who were all chances heading into the final round.

Melbourne pair Clayton Oliver (25) and Christian Petracca (24) finished in equal fourth and fifth, respectively.

Cripps, the 27-year-old from Northampton in Western Australia, polled the maximum three votes in the Blues' round 23 win over Collingwood to claim the Medal.

Cripps, who finished third in the 2019 Brownlow Medal won by Nat Fyfe, became Carlton's first winner since Chris Judd in 2010 and the sixth in the club's history.

There was some more movement on the all-time voting list, with Scott Pendlebury going equal with his former coach Robert Harvey in fifth place.(AFL)

💍 Australian football legend Mark Bosnich has wed long-term partner Sara Jones in a lavish ceremony and reception in Sydney on Saturday, with former teammate Dwight Yorke by his side as best man.

It's the former Socceroo-turned-football pundit's third wedding, after tying the knot at St Phillips Church in the CBD before a lavish reception in The Rocks.

🙋🏼‍♀️ The NRLW semi-finals will combine with the Prime Minister’s XIII matches for Rugby League “Footy Fest” at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday, September 25.

  • Semi Final 1: Newcastle Knights v St George Illawarra Dragons.

  • Semi-Final 2: Sydney Roosters v Parramatta Eels.

🏀 HUNGRY JACK'S NBL BLITZ – DAY 3

ILLAWARRA HAWKS 81 bt MELBOURNE UNITED 68

The Hawks got some nice contributions from late inclusions Davo Hickey and Kevin White to cruise to the 13-point win.

Day 4 at the NBL Blitz in Darwin today will see the Adelaide 36ers play the Tasmania JackJumpers first up, followed by the Perth Wildcats taking on the South East Melbourne Phoenix.

The Hawks are next in action against the New Zealand Breakers in the early game on Tuesday evening, while United will wait until the late game on Wednesday when they face the Perth Wildcats.

🐴 Today, I realised one of my dreams. For anyone striving to reach their goals, here’s my advice - never give up.

It took me many rides, early mornings, hard work hours, and disappointments. Keep trying, keep striving and keep smiling. If I can do it, so can you. - Jockey Jamie Mott on winning his first G1 race on Callsign Mav in the $1m Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes.

Renee Gartner takes you through all the highlights from Week 2 of the NRL Finals and Round 5 of the NRLW

GO PACK GO!

We're all Green Bay Packers fans this morning.

We're onto the last leg of the ALL FAVOURITES, ALL WEEKEND Multi from Friday's edition of Sport Journal.

We also landed a nice $12.0 same game multi on the Rabbitohs v Sharks game and were let down by the last leg on a $100+ multi-sport multi.

🌍 World Sport

⚽️ Arsenal's Ethan Nwaneri became the youngest ever Premier League player at 15 years and 181 days as the Gunners defeated Brentford to return to the top of the table.

Mikel Arteta sent on the schoolboy midfielder in the closing moments with his side leading 3-0 (final score)

Arsenal's travelling fans greeted Nwaneri's appearance by singing: "He's going to school in the morning."

While Neal Maupay opened his account for Everton to earn their first Premier League win of the season with victory over West Ham at Goodison Park. (1-0)

🥊 Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez dominated Gennady Golovkin over 12 rounds to retain his undisputed super-middleweight crown.

It was the third encounter between the modern-day greats in Las Vegas, with Alvarez claiming a second win following a controversial draw in the first bout.

⚽️ You can't pick your family: Mathias Pogba has been detained and placed under formal investigation over an alleged plot to extort money from his brother, French international Paul.

🚴🏻 Norway's Tobias Foss won a surprise gold in the time trial at the Road World Championships in Wollongong.

🏈Jameis Winston is playing hurt. Seriously hurt.

The Saints quarterback will line up against the Buccaneers with four fractures in his back, Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported, from his L1 to L4 vertebrae.

⚽️ Barcelona are considering a move for Chelsea star Jorginho next summer when the 30-year-old Italy midfielder could be available on a free transfer. (Mirror)

🐴 Horse Racing Trainer Roger Varian enjoyed seven winners across three cards in England on Saturday - at combined odds of $34,839.0. He had trebles at Ayr and Newbury, and another victory at Newmarket.

⚽️ Ange Postecoglou didn't give his Celtic side any leeway after they suffered their first cinch Premiership loss in a year in a shock 2-0 defeat by St Mirren.

⛳️ Robert MacIntyre (Sco) overcame U.S. Open Champion Matt Fitzpatrick in a play-off to win the 2022 DS Automobiles Italian Open and underline his match play credentials at the venue that will host next year's Ryder Cup. Australia's Lucas Herbert finished a credible 5th.

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