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🗞 Two games from immortality
Sport Journal
May 21, 2023
G'day sports fans,
"People on Twitter giving him grief, as far as I'm concerned, can take their Twitter and shove it," - Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens in his defence of halfback Luke Brooks.
🐴 Station One update: A shame he couldn’t grab the place for us punters, but a very good run first time up. He licked the bin when he got home which is a great sign. More to come from this big fella... stay tuned.
🇦🇺 Aussie Sport
🏉 Kalyn Ponga has won the race for the Queensland No.1 jersey with the Newcastle superstar to start at fullback for the Maroons in State of Origin I.
Queensland coach Billy Slater will confirm today that Ponga has held off a challenge from Reece Walsh for the fullback spot, and will play on May 31 in Adelaide.
SUNDAY WRAP
🏉 Josh Schuster wowed in his NRL return while Tom Trbojevic enjoyed his best performance of the year, as the Sea Eagles beat the Raiders 42-14 to close out Round 12.
On the eve of the New South Wales team being named, Trbojevic, who endured a patchy start to the year littered with injury niggles, stood tall with a hat-trick of tries and 239 running metres. (match report)
🏉 A spirited second-half comeback saw the Bulldogs pick up their first win in almost a month, with a late Jayden Okunbor try seeing them to a 20-18 victory over the Titans.
After heading to the break 14-0 down, the Bulldogs flew out of the sheds in the second half to score two tries in the space of five minutes and get back into the game. (watch highlights)
🇦🇺 West Coast is on track to claim the wooden spoon after suffering a 116-point thrashing at the hands of fellow struggler Hawthorn in Launceston.
The 22.10 (142) to 4.2 (26) result leaves the Eagles at the foot of the ladder with just one win for the season and a percentage of 55, after Hawthorn piled on 11 unanswered second-half goals for its second victory of the season. (match report)
🇦🇺The pain continues for Carlton. Craig McRae made it three wins from three starts against his former premiership captain Michael Voss on a day where Collingwood won for the sixth consecutive week.The Blues have now lost five of their past six games - only beating West Coast in that period - to tumble all the way to 11th after the 13.7 (85) to 7.15 (57) loss. (highlights)
🇦🇺 Spearhead Max King sparkled in his first match of the season as St Kilda held off a brave Greater Western Sydney to snatch a 12-point triumph in an enthralling clash at Giants Stadium.
King was superb on return from a shoulder reconstruction and a hamstring injury to finish with four goals as the Saints secured a 13.14 (92) to 12.8 (80) victory on Sunday. (highlights)
🥊 It was supposed to be a historic moment - Andrew Moloney's chance to join his brother Jason to become the first Australian twins to claim world boxing titles.
Jason Moloney already grabbed his chance, defeating Vincent Astrolabio for the bantamweight belt in California last weekend.
But unfortunately for the Moloney family, Andrew fell brutally short of adding the WBO junior bantamweight title to the strap won by his brother after undefeated Japanese knock out artist Junto Nakatani (24-0) claimed the belt in Las Vegas with a thunderous KO.
🏉 Outgoing Wallaroos captain Shannon Parry couldn't have been happier for her side, who delivered a 22-5 drubbing of Fijiana in Sydney on Saturday night.
"It's been a long ride for the past 13 years," she said.
"The squad is in really good shape and I'm looking forward to being a spectator now on the sidelines."
🐴 Star jockey Blake Shinn has declared Rothfire "destined" to win another Group 1 after career-threatening injuries curtailed the Queensland sensation.
Shinn jumped at the chance to ride Rothfire in Saturday's Group 1 Kingsford Smith Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm for trainer Robert Heathcote after Nash Rawiller elected to stick with Eduardo.
Rothfire, the ‘Thriller from Chinchilla', won seven of his first eight starts, including the Group 1 JJ Atkins Stakes (1400m), before a fractured sesamoid bone wrecked The Everest dream in 2021.
🏏 Cameron Green scored 100 from 47 balls for the Mumbai Indians to help them into the Indian Premier League play-offs by beating Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Central Coast Mariner’s historic 2-0 win in the semi final saw a crowd of (20,059) and, was equivalent to 5.3%of the entire population of the central coast filling Industree Group Stadium!
🏟 Under mounting political pressure, the Tasmanian government has released details of its agreement with the AFL to build a controversial new stadium in Hobart.
On Sunday, Premier Jeremy Rockliff made public the 134-page club funding and development agreement for Tasmania to become the AFL's 19th club.
The agreement states the planned 23,000-seat stadium will need to be completed by the start of Tasmania's second season in the AFL in 2029.
If the stadium is not ready to host games by then, the Tasmanian government will need to put an extra $4.5 million into an 'Operational Funding Top Up'.
🌎 World Sport
⚽️ Manchester City are "two games away from immortality" after securing a third successive Premier League title, according to former England captain Alan Shearer.
Arsenal's 1-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest on Saturday means City are champions for a fifth time in six years and now have the chance to win an historic Treble.
Manchester City celebrated their third successive Premier League title triumph with a 1-0 victory over Chelsea in a relaxed party atmosphere at Etihad Stadium.
⚽️ Leeds United's Premier League status is hanging by a thread as Europa Conference League finalists West Ham United's came from behind to secure a 3-1 victory at London Stadium.
Leeds must beat Spurs and hope Everton do not defeat Bournemouth at Goodison Park or Leicester City collect four points from their final two games in order to stay up.
City players watched Arsenal's defeat to Nottingham Forest together and you can see what it meant to them when the full-time whistle went
❤️ At least twelve people have died after a crush at a football stadium in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, officials have said.
The incident occurred during a match between local team Alianza and the Santa Ana-based team Fas at Cuscatlán Stadium.
🏏 Glamorgan's second highest ever innings saw them pull off a great escape against Sussex as they reached 737 all out.
Michael Neser (123) led the final-day resistance with a county-best score.
Three Aussies smacked big century’s in the County Championship this weekend:
Marnus Labuschagne 138 off 244.
Marcus Harris 122 off 195 n.o.
Michael Neser 123 off 198
🏀 For the third time in as many games in the Western Conference finals, the outcome was up for grabs in the fourth quarter and the Los Angeles Lakers couldn't complete the task.
Saturday's 119-108 loss to fall down 3-0 to the West's No. 1 seed might have contained different details than L.A.'s two defeats in Denver to begin the series, but the general theme was the same: The Nuggets did more when it mattered most.
Los Angeles are now one loss away from their season being over, a Lakers
🏉 La Rochelle retained the Champions Cup as they broke Leinster's hearts (27-26) for the second year running in a pulsating final in Dublin.
The Irish province opened up a 17-0 lead after scoring three tries in 12 minutes in a scintillating start.
"We’ve become a special team after today, but then you want to create a dynasty.
"The guy who inspires me a lot is Razor, he'll be proud of his protégé of whatever he wants to call me." - La Rochelle Coach and Ireland legend, Ronan O’Gara.
- How do we get 19 cap Will Skelton back in the Wallabies squad for the World Cup?
⚽️ Liverpool have almost agreed personal terms with Brighton's 24-year-old Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister. (Fabrizio Romano)
🎾 Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina clinched her fourth WTA title with victory in the Italian Open as Anhelina Kalinina retired with a leg injury.
Wimbledon champion Rybakina was leading 6-4 1-0 when her Ukrainian opponent, who had strapping on her left leg, retired in tears after 65 minutes.
🎾 Britain's Andy Murray has withdrawn from the French Open to prioritise the grass-court season in the build-up to Wimbledon.
🥊 Devin Haney retained his undisputed lightweight championship with a unanimous decision over Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday in a fast-paced fight before a sold-out crowd at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
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