🗞 The World's Best Retires

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🇦🇺 AUSSIE SPORTS NEWS
STATE OF ORIGIN, BIG MOUTH AND BAD BOY.

🏉 Origin Talk: Much of the criticism of Brad Fittler during his coaching tenure came around the persistence with combinations and not dropping some mainstays who had a slide in form. *cough, James Tedesco.

Speaking at the press conference, naming him as coach, Michael Maguire was keeping an "open page" on selection.

"I'm going to keep a really open page on where I go (with selections). I'm big on form," he said.

"The biggest thing I'll say to all the players is just to go out and play the best footy that you can play because that'll play a big part in where we go as a group.

At the end of the day, I have a pretty open sheet.”

⛳️ Cameron Davis is the early clubhouse leader at the Australian Open after carding a first-round nine-under at The Lakes.

Davis, the 2017 champion at The Australian, was able to take full advantage of the uncharacteristic conditions to card seven birdies and an eagle.

📺 Nick Kyrgios and controversial British media personality Piers Morgan are set to face off in an explosive interview dubbed, "the interview nobody thought possible".

The pair have traded barbs on social media over the years around Kyrgios' tennis etiquette but the fan-favourite has now dialled into Morgan's show Piers Morgan Uncensored to tell-all.

"The bad boy of tennis meets the biggest mouth in TV," the show's promotion of the interview said.

The interview will be aired during Piers Morgan Uncensored in the UK on Friday AEDT and available to Australian viewers thereafter.

🏏 Allrounder Cameron Green has further thickened the Test selection plot while helping rescue Western Australia with an imperious 96 against Queensland in the Marsh Sheffield Shield at the Gabba.

With one day remaining the match is likely to end in a draw, but after taking a 56-run first-innings lead Western Australia are a chance of making it interesting if they can snare early wickets today.

🐴 The world's best racehorse Equinox has been retired to stud after toying with his Japan Cup (2400m) rivals in the ultimate swansong.

The son of Kitasan Black retires on the back of six straight Group 1 wins and with the highest ever rating (133) given to a horse in Japan by the JRA Handicapper.

"He's a generational horse – they don't come along often," Former Champion Jockey Shane Dye said.

🐴 After finding some form in the Kynton Cup (which he won in 2022), and following it up with a win in the Dunkeld Cup in November. Sport Journal Horse Station One has been accepted to run in Race 7 Bet365 Traralgon Cup on Sunday!

📺 Pat Cummins says he thinks about his mother everyday in a touching video (Twitter)

🏏 Marsh Sheffield Shield strugglers NSW stunned ladder-leaders Tasmania to secure a second win of the season as 24 wickets fell in a day at the SCG.

The Blues, who only recently ended an agonising 15-game winless Shield run, skittled the Tigers for a measly 68 in 23 overs as the visitors fell 74 short of the victory target.

🇦🇺 A special State of Origin state league match could feature during the 2024 Gather Round, reports Code Sports.

The AFL is planning to keep the weekend of April 6-7 vacant at state league level to allow the VFL to face the SANFL in Adelaide, according to the report.

The full AFL round will be played in South Australia for the second Gather Round, including five matches at Adelaide Oval.

🌎 WORLD SPORTS NEWS
MAVS OWNER SELLS UP, UGANDA’S FIRST WC.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Global revenue generated by elite women's sport is predicted to approach AU$2Bn for the first time next year, after a year of growth featuring the Fifa Women's World Cup in 2023.

Football is forecast to generate AU$841m, with basketball predicted to be the second most valuable sport with AU$538m. (Deloitte)

🏉 England captain Owen Farrell has made himself unavailable for the 2024 Six Nations "in order to prioritise his and his family's mental wellbeing".

⚽️ The sale of Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, 31, next summer could open the door for Liverpool to sign 23-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe from Paris St-Germain.

🏈 Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has said that owner David Tepper wants to replace fired head coach Frank Reich with eight time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick, the man Newton played for with the New England Patriots in 2020.

The time appears ripe for Belichick to move on from New England languishing with a 2-9 record.

Speaking on the “4th&1 with Cam Newton” podcast, “Knowing what I do know, he’s hoping that he can land Bill Belichick. That, right there, would be a win-win, win-win for David Tepper.”

⚾️ Luis Severino is staying in New York. Just not with the Yankees.
The veteran right-hander is signing a one-year, $13 million contract with the New York Mets after nine years as a Yankee.

🏀 News of Mark Cuban selling a majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks took the NBA world by collective surprise Tuesday night. Cuban is moving forward on an agreement with the Las Vegas-based family of Miriam Adelson reportedly to sell a $2 billion slice of the franchise’s pie. Cuban will continue to oversee sporting operations.

🏏 Uganda has qualified for the men’s T20 World Cup for the first time in the nation’s history.

The 23rd-ranked side smashed Rwanda on Thursday to guarantee they would advance along with Namibia out of the African qualifiers.

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