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🗞 “I want to win a premiership in that jersey”
G'day sports fans,
Monday Motivation: "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" - NFL coach Vince Lombardi
🇦🇺 Aussie Sport
🧀 The Tigers, Eels and Panthers have reportedly joined the race for the cheese, Brandon Smith.
But he was blown away by his visit to the Roosters and told himself at one stage “I want to win a premiership in that jersey”. Therefore, the Roosters look the most likely destination for 2023.
Storm fans might not want to hear Brandon Smith talking about the Roosters organisation being above the rest (Twitter)
✍🏼 Wellington Phoenix are looking at signing Australian winger Ryan Williams from League One outfit Oxford United (@ByPhillipRollo)
🥊 George "Ferocious" Kambosos Jr defied all the odds, went into the backyard of champion Teofimo Lopez and took the WBA, IBF and WBO from him in an unforgettable performance.
And what a fight it was. Both men had to climb off the canvas, but ‘Ferocious’ was the better man. While a slew of former footballers have been grabbing the headlines, Kambosos Jnr is the new face of Australian boxing.
🏏 During South Australia's one-day clash with Queensland, Alex Carey led his side in runs scored and finished with 101 from just 93 deliveries. Boosting his chances for a Test debut.
🙋🏼♀️ Women's Sport
Perth Scorchers defeated Adelaide Strikers by 12 runs to become the new champions of cricket's WBBL, with South African allrounder Marizanne Kapp starring with bat and ball in the final.
Australia's rugby women have dominated the Dubai Sevens tournament, winning all five of their matches, including a consummate 22-7 victory in the final against Fiji, to lift the prestigious title.
Scone trainer Brett Cavanough didn’t hold any real hope for the future of Tidal Rush but the horse will forever be the centre of one of Australian racing’s great betting stories.
🌍 World Sport
✍🏼 Manchester United believe Ralf Rangnick's expected arrival at Old Trafford will give them the advantage in the race to sign Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland, 21, from Borussia Dortmundnext summer. (Mirror)
🗞 Manchester City's Spain forward Ferran Torres, 21, has submitted a transfer request with Barcelona interested. (Mundo Deportivo via Express)
❌ Belenenses' Portuguese top-flight match against Benfica was abandoned early in the second half because the home side had only six players on the pitch - having been forced to start the game with nine men, including a goalkeeper as an outfield player.
A Covid outbreak had left Belenenses with 17 players unavailable and their nine men were already 7-0 down at half-time.
🏈 It took 10 years, two coaches and five rushing touchdowns from Hassan Haskins, but Michigan finally got back over the hump and beat No. 2 Ohio State in one of college football's great rivalries, picking up a 42-27 win in Ann Arbor. Fair to say, they enjoyed it!
👊🏻 A team of boxers versus a team of mixed martial artists, two-minute rounds, a triangular-shaped ring and a Metallica concert.
Controversial outfit Triller’s Triad Combat show saw boxers and MMA fighters squaring off in a triangle-shaped ring, with the main event putting 42-year-old ex-UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir against 40-year-old ex-heavyweight world title challenger Kubrat Pulev.
But Mir was very clearly outmatched from the opening bell and once Pulev’s shots began to land the end was near, and the ref has copped serious heat for not stopping the panto sooner.
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