Australians run 80 hours or more in ‘crazy’ race with no finish line
It sounds like a metaphor for torture: a running race with no finish line. About 900 runners from 67 nations,…
Athletes drive to make table tennis a smash at national Special Olympics debut
The repetitive click-clack of a small white ball paddling back and forth over a net may seem like a simple…
From tattoos to blue sausages, Newcastle has gone ‘Knights crazy’
It’s been 25 years since the Newcastle Knights last played in an NRL grand final, and Newcastle has not forgotten…
Mackay makes cricket history as day one of inaugural Test match sells out
Barry Jansen mortgaged his house to help buy land for a cricket arena and didn’t tell his wife for five…
Hollywood legend set to bring Finke Desert Race to the big screen
Central Australia’s Finke Desert Race is set to get the Hollywood treatment in a feature-length film and documentary series, bringing…
South Australian man sails around the world in homemade boat
There was champagne and smiles as Dan Turner sailed into Antigua, in the Caribbean Sea, this week. After 16 months…
First there was K-pop, now there’s K-ball
In a suburban stadium on the outskirts of Melbourne, two teams gather to play ball. The crowd is modest but…
A well-intentioned grand display turned a prince into a frog
Norway is the home of many magical children’s fairy tales, always with a moral fable buried deep at their centre.…
How a horse-mad girl from the outback became queen of racing in Queensland
Angela Jones can still remember being bucked off her pony onto a prickle bush as a kid on the family…
The day Putin rose from obscurity to one of the world’s most powerful jobs
It is December 31, 1999. Savage Garden is dominating global music charts and rugby fans are celebrating the Wallabies’ World…