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What makes an Olympic emblem memorable – and does Brisbane’s new design fit the bill?

What’s in a name? Enough to ensnare Australia, NZ and PNG in a legal battle over the rugby team name ‘Chiefs’

How to build an expansion club: the challenges and opportunities for the new NRL and AFL teams

Anger, remorse, conspiracy theories: how sports fans cope when their club does wrong

The International Olympic Committee wants mental health screening in elite sports. Here’s why

The demise of the single‑handed backhand is a watershed moment for tennis

The NFL sold out its Australia game in 30 minutes – but will the sport make its mark Down Under?

Raygun turned her Olympic flop into a media career. Now Netflix is helping with the rewrite

Would Ted Lasso be a good sports coach in real life?

The World Cup enters its next stage after witch doctors, surprises and emergency beer deliveries

“I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times.” Find out your team’s chances

Game changers: how a stroke of paint transformed basketball, and the athletes who play it

Where do Socceroos come from? Our map reveals Australia’s junior talent hotspots

Game changers: how soccer’s mega‑money era was sparked by a little‑known Belgian athlete

The 1994 World Cup helped rescue ‘the beautiful game’ from mediocrity. On its return to the US, expect more of that beauty

Game changers: how a rainy week led a frustrated Don Bradman to reinvent cricket

Cricket and soccer are Australian sporting giants. How can they be struggling financially?

A host nation at war with a participant: uncertainty and tension swirl around soccer’s World Cup

The Olympics’ transgender athlete ban is a legal and moral minefield

Can NZ’s new T20 cricket franchise attract the dollars, players and fans it will need?

How England’s Premier League is trying to stop football’s financial arms race – without a salary cap

Like night and day: why Test cricket changes so much under lights

The Matildas keep soaring but the league, and players, beneath them are being left behind

Premier League: from red success to grey failure – how kit colours appear to impact performance

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

What is cricket’s World Test Championship and how did Australia qualify for the final?

Footy’s ‘code wars’ are back, but which is actually the No. 1 Australian sport: the NRL or AFL?

Women’s sports are fighting an uphill battle against our social media algorithms

Traded like assets, expected to be loyal: the unique double standard of being an Australian footy player

Step length, a devastating finish and ‘springs in his spikes’: the science behind Gout Gout’s speed

Americans can’t stop Aussie kickers on college football fields – so they’re trying in court

Formula One drivers face temperatures up to 50°C. High tech racing suits help keep them cool

Australia’s major sports codes are considered not-for-profits – is it time for them to pay up?

Playing favourites, inconsistency or a fair decision? Unpacking Jannik Sinner’s doping case

AFL and NRL pre-seasons are among the longest in world sport – here’s why

Is Steve Smith set to become the best? What data says about Test cricket’s elite 10,000+ run club

It’s the most American of sports, so why is the NFL looking to Melbourne for international games?

Speed thrills: why are so many sports getting faster?

After fleeing the Taliban, the Afghan women’s cricket team is finally playing together – in Australia

How the AFL and NRL have crept into cricket’s traditional summer timeslot

For tennis star Destanee Aiava, borderline personality disorder felt like ‘a death sentence’ – and a relief. What is it?

Game, set, debate: why do women only play 3 sets in tennis?

Spin has transformed modern-day tennis. Here’s the physics behind it

Why the Australian Open’s online tennis coverage looks like a Wii sports game

9 out of 10 Australian sports bettors are men. Here’s why that might change

Tennis is facing an existential crisis over doping. How will it respond?

FIFA has a human rights policy, so how could it award Saudi Arabia the 2034 soccer World Cup?

Raygun’s claim against a parody musical may not stand up: here’s what the law says

Why is cricket so popular on the Indian sub-continent?

What can sport fans do if their team, or league, is being sportswashed?

Olympic athletes live much longer than ‘average Joes’ – but elite AFL and rugby union players don’t

Classifications, history and Australian hopes: what to expect at the Paris Paralympics

What challenges do Paralympic athletes face compared to their Olympic peers?

Black Caviar’s death has prompted uncomfortable questions about how champion mares spend their retirement

The major factors behind Australia’s surge to a record-breaking Olympics

As an Aussie makes baseball history, the sport’s dark past is a clue to why it never took off here

What does Steve Smith’s Stateside signing mean for cricket in the US – and Australia?

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