National News
5:00 AM AWST | The Socceroos have begun life under new coach Holger Osieck with an entertaining 0-0 friendly draw against an understrength Switzerland in St Gallen.
4:59 AM AWST | All power and aggression, Australian tennis ace Samantha Stosur has muscled her way into the US Open fourth round with her most impressive display yet in New York.
1:00 AM AWST | BOB WOOLMER'S wife has sought to silence the conspiracy theories spreading across the internet by insisting her husband was not murdered. Twitter and blogs have been abuzz this past week with suggestions the former Pakistan coach's sudden death during the 2007 World Cup was related to claims he was set to unravel a match-fixing racket within his own team.
1:00 AM AWST | EVERYONE with an opinion seems to feel the Swans would have a bigger advantage over Carlton if tomorrow's elimination final were at the SCG instead of ANZ Stadium. Even the Blues mentioned they would prefer meeting Sydney away from the tight SCG, but Sydney coach Paul Roos said yesterday if they were thinking that, ''I think they are thinking the wrong things.''
1:00 AM AWST | Injuries have reduced the Wallabies to a make-shift line-up. If all players were available, they would look a vastly different side. Greg Growden reports from Bloemfontein.
1:00 AM AWST | PLAYING rosters of all the Australian state sides will be ripped apart with the addition of two extra Twenty20 sides for the 2011-12 Big Bash.
1:00 AM AWST | As Brett Kirk prepares to play his last match in Sydney, he reveals the identity of the man who inspired him to greatness. Michael Cowley reports.
1:00 AM AWST | SONNY BILL WILLIAMS is no certainty of shoring up a place in the All Blacks squad just because he has made the commitment to play in New Zealand, says captain Richie McCaw.
1:00 AM AWST | MARK BRIDGE doesn't care much for pressure. Never has, and probably never will. That's why he's the only player to have scored in two A-League grand finals. Both times he was on the winning side.
1:00 AM AWST | PLAYERS from the round-24 game between North Queensland and Canterbury, which was the subject of a highly unusual betting plunge, will likely be interviewed by police in the coming weeks.
03 Sep 10 | Roger Federer has rolled into the third round of the US Open while sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko lost and Japanese qualifier Kei Nishikori dumped 11th seed Marin Cilic in five gruelling sets.
03 Sep 10 | Top seed Caroline Wozniacki has powered her way into the third round of the US Open, handing out a 6-0 6-0 whitewash to Taiwan's Chang Kai-Chen.
03 Sep 10 | Sydney's loss to Melbourne six weeks ago was the catalyst for a drastic change, writes Michael Cowley.
03 Sep 10 | Pakistan's top diplomat in Britain claims that the three cricketers facing match-fixing allegations were "set up".
03 Sep 10 | NEW YORK: The strut was back, the shoulders broad and the aces flowed as the real Samantha Stosur stood up to power into the third round of the US Open for the first time. After seven years of trying, fifth-seeded Stosur finally overcame her second-round jinx at Flushing Meadows with a storming 6-1, 6-4 victory over fellow Australian Anastasia Rodionova.
03 Sep 10 | DURBAN: Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has called on his players to at last produce a performance ''they can be proud of'' when they confront the Springboks in Bloemfontein on Saturday night.
03 Sep 10 | CRICKET faces its greatest crisis but the future has not lost its radiance just yet, judging by the enthusiasm of NSW paceman Josh Hazlewood, who wore a broad grin as he thought about making his first trip to India as part of Australia's Test squad.
03 Sep 10 | ST GALLEN, Switzerland: Socceroos defender David Carney is set to bolster Australia's dwindling stocks in the English Premier League after switching to battlers Blackpool.
03 Sep 10 | LIBBY TRICKETT'S comeback is in danger of stalling on the blocks with world body FINA's anti-doping rules set to prevent her from qualifying for next year's world championships in Shanghai.
03 Sep 10 | DURBAN: Peter de Villiers' public support of a man charged with murder could spell the end of his controversial three-year term as Springboks coach.