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🗞 What's your match snack? 🥣
G'day sports fans,
Monday Motivation: "You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." — Kobe Bryant.
In today's edition of Sport Journal:
🥣 Weet-bix match snack
🐴 Eduardo is one tough cookie
⚽️ Bubble-football rodeo
🇦🇺 AFL
👴🏼 Ben Cousins laced up the boots for the first time in over 10 years, turning out for a team in a local Perth league. (nine)
😤 Essendon coach Ben Rutten has hit out at the tactics Fremantle used to counter star midfielder Zach Merrett during Sunday's narrow victory over the Dockers.
it was the close checking of Serong and his Dockers teammates that drew the ire of Rutten, with the rookie coach believing the tactics used were over the top.
"I don't think it’s a great look for our game, the off-ball stuff," Rutten said after the win.
"I think we need to let our good players play the game and compete hard when the ball is around, as it is dangerous."
Watch all the best highlights from a thrilling round nine
🏉 NRL
💯 The Penrith Panthers have become the first team in the NRL era to kick start their season with a 10-0 record after thrashing the Gold Coast Titans 48-12.
🟥 Dragons centre Tyrell Fuimaono looks set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after he was sent off for a high shot on Storm fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen. Who was stretchered off. (nine)
🤕 The Dragons and Storm are preparing to play without their livewire fullbacks next week after Matt Dufty and Ryan Papenhuyzen were hurt in Sunday's Magic Round clash. (NRL)
All the scorelines, highlights, injuries and judiciary news from the 10th round of the Telstra Premiership.
⚽️ Football
Adelaide United bolstered their position in the top six with a gritty 1-0 triumph over fellow finals hopefuls Brisbane Roar.
Wellington Phoenix have a lifeline in their A-League finals hunt after Tomer Hemed rescued a late point in Sunday's 2-2 draw at Premiership frontrunners Melbourne City.
Perth Glory striker Andy Keogh had a night to remember in a 5-1 win over Western Sydney Wanderers, scoring four times to help his side take a step closer toward stealing an unlikely place in the Finals Series. (match report)
🗣 Soon-to-be Melbourne Victory coach Tony Popovic has contacted Neil Kilkenny and Nick D'Agostino. (@SokkahPodcast)
🧤A last-minute Alisson Becker header led Liverpool to a dramatic 2-1 win at West Brom to save the Premier League champions’ top four hopes. (Twitter)
🏟 A $116m addition to Melbourne’s sporting landscape is set to be delivered in time for the 2023 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by Australia.
🚀 This beauty from MOM Youri Tielemans, was enough to see of Chelsea 1-0, in the FA Cup. The win saw Leicester lift the trophy for the first time in their history.
🏏 Cricket
CA open to new information about Newlands scandal: Cricket Australia (CA) says anyone with new evidence related to the Cape Town ball-tampering saga in 2018 should present their information to the governing body.
Former Test opener Cameron Bancroft has reignited discussion about the scandal from three years ago, saying Australia's bowlers' knowledge of the sandpaper plot is "self-explanatory".
Former Australia bowling coach David Sekar, who was with the team during the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, on Sunday said it was a "monumental mistake" which could have been prevented and for which fingers can also be pointed at him and others. (Cricket)
🐴 Racing
Kris Lees will use Saturday’s Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m) to springboard popular galloper Mugatoo towards another Cox Plate with the Newcastle trainer utilising the winter carnival’s ideal spot in the calendar.
Faced with the prospect of sitting in a paddock or competing for $700,000, connections easily chose the latter and it sets up a showdown with Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet and flying import Zaaki who is coming off a dominant Hollindale Stakes win at the Gold Coast.
Nash Rawiller feared Eduardo was out of petrol tickets but the bulldog fighting spirit of Joe Pride’s evergreen sprinter shone through as the Sydney trainer turned back time in the Group 1 Doomben 10,000.
It was not peak Eduardo but a proud Rawiller said the sprinter did it on “raw heart” at the end of a taxing preparation where it looked like leader would be swamped by the chasing pack. (racenet)
Only broken in as a four-year-old
Won $2,607,900 in prize money
Now a two-time G1 winner
𝙀𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙤 is one brave animal.
🏉 Rugby
Week one was a 0-5 whitewash for Australian sides, but the Brumbies (Crusaders 31-29 Brumbies) and Western Force (Chiefs 20-19 Western Force), look well placed to ruffle some feathers during the remainder of the Trans-Tasman Super Rugby competition.
Things looked bleak when Australian champions Queensland Reds lost 40-19 to the Highlanders on Friday night before the NSW Waratahs gave up 10 tries in a 64-48 loss to the Hurricanes.
The Melbourne Rebels' 50-3 defeat to the Blues on Saturday highlighted the gulf between the two rugby nations.
But gutsy displays from the Brumbies and Force showed not all hope is lost for Australian sides.
The marquee match of round two will pit the two domestic champion sides against each other, the Reds taking on the Crusaders at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.
The Rebels will be aiming to bounce back from their round-one flop when they travel to take on the Hurricanes on Friday night, while the Waratahs face the Blues at Eden Park on Saturday.
🌏 World Sport
👊🏻 Charles Oliveira claimed the undisputed UFC lightweight title with a thrilling second-round TKO of three-time Bellator champion Michael Chandler.
Brazilian Oliveira extended his winning streak to nine on a dramatic night in Houston, Texas.
🐂 ⚽️ You've probably seen Bubble-Football by now. Five-a-side in inflatable bubble suits allowing for big bumps. Well, these guys in Texas thought it was a bit boring and decided to add a rodeo bull to the mix. The result?
🏀 Kobe Bryant was inducted int the hall of fame. (NBA)
🚴🏼♀️ Egan Bernal stormed to his first Grand Tour stage victory at Giro d'Italia: Ineos Grenadiers rider takes over the leader's pink jersey.
⛳️ After 478 attempts, Richard Plan has only gone and won the British Masters, his first-ever win. He's been on and off tour since 2002.
📺 Live sport
⚾️ 09:08 - MLB - San Diego Padres v St. Louis Cardinals (ESPN 1 or Sky Sports 3)
🏄🏻♀️ 09:30 - Women's Championship Tour, Women's Rottnest Search (7Plus, Fox Sports More)
🏄🏻♂️ 09:30 - Men's Championship Tour, Men's Rottnest Search (7Plus, Fox Sports More)
🏒 09:30 - NHL Playoffs First Round - Florida Panthers v Tampa Bay Lightning (ESPN 2)
⚽️ 10:00 - MLS - DC United v Orlando City SC (BeIN Sports 2)
⚽️ 11:30 - MLS - Seattle Sounders v Los Angeles FC (BeIN Sports 30
🎾 19:00 - ATP Parc Auvergne - Round 1, Day 1 (BeIN Sports 1)
🏀 19:30 - NBL - Cairns Taipans v Perth Wildcats (ESPN 1 or SBS on Demand)
🚴🏼♀️ 21:30 - Giro d'Italia, Stage 10, 139km (SBS on Demand or SBS Viceland)
TUESDAY
⚾️ 08:40 - MLB - Cincinnati Reds v San Francisco Giants (Sky Sports 3)
🏄🏻♂️ 09:00 - Men's Championship Tour Men's Rottnest Search (7Plus, Fox Sports More)
🏄🏻♀️ 09:00 - Women's Championship Tour, Women's Rottnest Search (7Plus, Fox Sports More)
⚾️ 09:10 - MLB - Atlanta Braves v New York Mets (ESPN 1)
🏒 09:30 - NHL Playoffs First Round - Washington Capitals v Boston Bruins (ESPN 2)
⚾️ 12:10 - MLB - San Diego Padres v Colorado Rockies (Sky Sports 3)
🎾 19:00 - ATP Parc Auvergne Round 1 (BeIN Sports 1)
🏀 19:30 - NBL - Illawarra Hawks v Melbourne United (ESPN 1 or SBS on Demand)