Image: CRAIG GOLDING / AAP Channel Nine’s Director of Sports Tom Malone has told Macquarie Sports Radio’s David Morrow and Matt Thompson that State of Origin Game Two television ratings had a national average audience of over 3.1 million viewers, making it the second highest rated program across the year behind Origin Game 1. Hear the interview […]

Wallabies great Phil Kearns has slammed a proposal by World Rugby that would reduce the height of legal tackles to “below the nipple line”. Under the new interpretation, which is being trialed at the Under-20’s World Cup, the so-called ‘nipple rule’ considers any tackle where contact is made above the nipples to be a high […]

The next Australian Open will be broadcast on Channel Nine. Just a week after a deal was declared dead, Nine secured the rights to broadcast the event a year early. After last-ditch negotiations between Channel Seven and Tennis Australia, Nine will fork out an extra $48.5m to show the tournament in 2019. It had already […]

He was never chosen for another Olympics, but suggestions Australian athlete Peter Norman was banned, or blacklisted from representing his country as a result of standing alongside two African Americans in the Black Power salute at the 1968 Games, were refuted by Coates when he spoke with Julian King. “He wasn’t (blacklisted). There are those […]

Sri Lankan captain Dinesh Chandimal is the first player in cricket history to be suspended for ball-tampering in a Test match. He has been slapped with a one-Test suspension after being found guilty of changing the condition of the ball during the second Test against the West Indies. Chandimal was caught on camera shining the […]