🗞 Several huge calls

💨 SPEEDY AUSSIE SPORTS NEWS

🏉 Manly coach Anthony Seibold took issue with a couple of referee calls, but backed his side’s bizarre tactics in their 24-12 loss to the Panthers that has their season on life support. (highlights)

✍🏼 The NRL and Rugby League Players Association have settled on an in-principle collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ending a months-long dispute between the warring parties. (espn)

🇦🇺 Three-time Richmond premiership captain Trent Cotchin has confirmed the end of his decorated AFL career, saying he found his "life purpose" with the Tigers.

🏄🏻‍♂️ Ethan Ewing's world title hopes appear over after the Australian broke his back while surfing Teahupo'o ahead of the Tahiti Pro.(abc)

🦘 WALLABIES WC SQUAD

Eddie Jones has made several huge calls as he announces the 33-player Wallabies squad for Rugby World Cup 2023 in France.

Co-captain Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper are among the exclusions, with Jones naming lock Will Skelton as captain.

18-year-old Max Jorgensen is the major bolter, selected after a dream season with the Waratahs.

There was no place for co-captain Hooper, who failed to overcome a calf injury.

Likewise, Brumbies centre Len Ikitau (scapula) will not travel to France, with Cooper amongst several from the Bledisloe Cup to miss the cut along with forward Jed Holloway, Ryan Lonergan and Dylan Pietsch. (Full Squad)

Australia face Wales, Fiji, Georgia and Portugal in their World Cup pool.

🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️ SEEING DOUBLE

Mathew and Max Feagai and Ryan and Toby Couchman will make history on Saturday afternoon against the Rabbitohs at Cairns’ Barlow Park when they become the first two sets of twins to appear in the same NRL game.

🐴 KAH COMEBACK

Champion jockey Jamie Kah will continue on the comeback trail when riding star weight-for-age galloper Zaaki in a Rosehill barrier trial today.

The 27-year-old has not ridden in a race since suffering head injuries in a fall in the Group 2 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington back in March.

It remains unknown when Kah will return to race riding.

🦁 PREMIER LEAGUE KICK OFF

[Starts in the early hours on Saturday - Man City v Burnley]

No team in the history of football has ever been champions of England four years in succession. But Manchester City are odds-on favourites to do exactly that, and it will be very hard for any club to stop them after last season's superb Premier League-FA Cup-Champions League treble.

Can Arsenal challenge again with the signing’s of Declan Rice and Kai Havertz?

After disappointing campaigns last season, Liverpool and Chelsea (with Mauricio Pochettino, and bags of cash) are aiming to be much better in 2023/24.

Manchester United fans want their team to build on last season's progress under Erik ten Hag and challenge for the title.

Ange Postecoglou is hoping his Spurs team can make an impact after a summer of speculation about Harry Kane's future.

As ever, the three promoted clubs -- Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton Town - will be tipped to go back down, but last season's trio of newcomers all survived.

Stat: City scored 150 goals in all competitions last season, the most of any team in Europe's top five leagues with over 34% of those struck by centre-forward Erling Haaland.

💨 SPEEDY WORLD SPORTS NEWS

🏏 Cricket really is a game for all shapes and sizes; on the left, Prithvi Shaw who just hit a double hundred in just 129-balls in a One Day Cup game in England. And, on the right, Shubman Gill, who aside from posting shirtless on Instagram, rose to No. 5 in the ICC batting rankings. Oh, and, they are both 23 years old.

⚽️ Bayern Munich and Tottenham have agreed a deal in principle for England captain Harry Kane worth more than 100m euros. Tottenham now say it’s up to the player to decide.

🥊 Anthony Joshua says boxing "clearly has a problem" with doping after Dillian Whyte failed a voluntary drugs test and was pulled out of Saturday's all-British heavyweight contest.

🏀 Josh Hart is finalizing a four-year, $81 million contract extension with the New York Knicks, according to his agents

🏏 Shout out to Aussie Spencer Johnson on his debut in The Hundred. The 27-year-old left-arm quick finished with extraordinary figures of 3-1 from 20 balls, regularly bowling over 90mph.

📺 NETFLIX RECCO

In 2012, the brightest star in all of sports was an undersized freshman quarterback at unheralded Texas A&M, whose fervor on the field was rivaled only by his hard-partying ways off it - you can call him “Johnny Football”.

The magnetic football player captured the nation’s attention and initially relished his alter ego, but as the money rolled in, the scrutiny heightened, and Manziel rejected his newfound fame and suddenly lost his way.

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