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Nelson Bay pick Rex for Big Bowls play-off
7/01/2009 | NELSON Bay have gone with the experienced Rex Johnston as their marquee player for the Invitation Big Bowls Challenge elimination semi-final against Kurri Kurri at Kurri tomorrow night. The Marlins...
7/01/2009 | LEADING trainer-driver Michael Formosa was full of confidence after his in-form pacer Staminator drew barrier two yesterday for the $40,000 Inter City Pace Final (2422 metres) at Maitland Showground o...
7/01/2009 | THE Newcastle Knights are likely to send a three-man delegation to Auckland if, as expected, a funeral or memorial service is required for Warriors star Sonny Fai. Fai is missing, presumed drowned,...
7/01/2009 | HIGH-OCTANE Jets fullback Tarek Elrich hopes to head overseas at some stage of his career but said reports linking him to a move to Turkey were premature. A prominent soccer website reported yester...
Jets teenager facing surgery despite positive scan
7/01/2009 | INJURED Newcastle W-League Jets midfielder Sammie Wood has been cleared of a fractured skull but may still require surgery to repair her crushed sinus. The 17-year-old was released from Orange Base...
7/01/2009 | NEWCASTLE coach Gary van Egmond wants young guns Tarek Elrich and Ben Kantarovski to shoot for the stars. Van Egmond pulled aside both players, pictured above, at training yesterday to work on pass...
Van Egmond begins Champions League journey
6/01/2009 | GARY van Egmond is not normally a nervous flyer. But the Newcastle Jets coach expects butterflies to be turning in his stomach and his mind to be racing at a million miles an hour when he boards a ...  | CommentsComments (3)
DAVID LOWE: This might only hurt for a little while
6/01/2009 | "WHAT'S the story with the Jets?" is the question I've heard most in recent weeks. "Well," I reply, "I've got my own theories. What do you think?" I can tell you that most who initiate the conve...  | CommentsComments (10)
6/01/2009 | THE Newcastle Jets' Asian Champions League aspirations look set to receive a timely boost with fringe Socceroo Nikolai Topor-Stanley poised to sign a two-year deal. The Perth Glory defender is beli...  | CommentsComments (7)
6/01/2009 | VICTORIA Country's final two batsmen survived the last 11 balls to prevent NSW Country from claiming an outright win yesterday in the opening round of the Australian Country Cricket Championships in t...
Freak accident puts W-League star Sammie Wood out of Jets semi-final
6/01/2009 | NEWCASTLE Jets W-League midfielder Sammie Wood has suffered horrific injuries in a freak boating accident at the weekend. The news has rocked the Jets just days out from their historic semi-final a...  | CommentsComments (3)
Ben Woolmer to the rescue for NSW Country
5/01/2009 | THE push to have Merewether all-rounder Ben Woolmer return to representative cricket paid dividends yesterday for NSW Country at the Australian Country Championships in the Barossa Valley. Woolmer ...
5/01/2009 | REDHEAD dominated the third and final round of the NSW Surf Life Saving Premiership on Saturday at their home beach but finished third in the series. Redhead (26 points) won two of the three rounds...
5/01/2009 | WYONG trainer Brett Partelle will consider taking Imahere to the Gold Coast on Saturday after the gelding scored a strong win in the first gallops meeting of 2009 at Broadmeadow Racecourse. Imahere...
Colin Redman building promising training career
5/01/2009 | BROADMEADOW mentor Colin Redman took another step towards building a full-time training gig when he prepared Greycoat to win the AVE Technologies Maiden Plate (1300 metres) at Newcastle on Saturday. ...
5/01/2009 | FULLERTON Cove trainer Les Kosklin will be chasing a second Inter City Pace win at Maitland on Saturday night. Kosklin, who will have Jaccka Sandy in the $40,000 final, was successful in 2001 w...
Leigh Adams wins Newcastle speedway round
5/01/2009 | THE big guns fired in the opening round of the Australian Solo Speedway Championship at Newcastle Showground on Saturday night. Mildura's nine-time Australian champion Leigh Adams won the event and...
Jets are not a transit lounge: van Egmond
5/01/2009 | FRUSTRATED coach Gary van Egmond has delivered a blunt message to his failing stars: shape up or ship out. The Newcastle Jets' slide from champions to chumps is all but complete after they went dow...  | CommentsComments (9)
3/01/2009 | WYONG trainer John Hubbard is hoping to turn back the clock at Broadmeadow this afternoon. Three years ago he trained Sussman to win the class-two handicap (1850 metres) at the first meeting run on...
3/01/2009 | GOULBURN trainer Neil Day will be putting his unbeaten Inter City Pace record on the line when Finn contests the opening heat of this year's series at the Newcastle International Paceway tonight. F...
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16/12/2008 | So we now have desperate parents attempting to bribe teachers to get their children into a selective high school. What a sad indictment of our education policies, the holy grail of which is parental choice.
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