The 2017 Rugby League World Cup Organising Committee has announced that fans will be able to attend games played in Papua New Guinea for just PGK30 (£7.38/$9.46/€8.04).

The 15th staging of the event will be shared between Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea between

outlets in Port Moresby.The tournament will feature 14 nations playing 28 matches in 13 cities across Australia

partner in Papua New Guinea for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, which the country will co-host with Australia

Port Moresby will host three of the 28 games.Papua New Guinea are co-hosting the tournament alongside Australia

Former Australian leg-spinner Stuart MacGill has turned down an offer to join the backroom staff for Bangladesh's national cricket team before their imminent two-Test series against his home country for "personal reasons".

Bangladesh were hoping to get some inside knowledge from MacGill, who took 208 wickets in 44 Tests for Australia

“We hope within a day or two we will be able to tell something about this.”Former Australia cricket player

tomorrow for their first Test series in the South Asian nation since 2006.It will also be the first series Australia

Australian company Woolworths has signed on as the official supermarket and fresh food supporter of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, it was announced today.

the Organising Committee, Gold Coast 2018 merchandise will be made available in Woolworths stores in Australia

Woolworths has supported many major events in Australia over their long history and it’s wonderful to

Preliminary round football matches officially got underway at the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade today with Brazil thrashing Colombia 17-0 in the women's tournament.

the men’s event.They lost 17-4 to South Korea at the Hsinchu County Natatorium.France, Hungary and Australia

Kitty Chiller will not serve as Australia’s Chef de Mission at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with a replacement set to be named next week.

Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) that she had decided not to reprise the role for Tokyo 2020.Reports in Australia

the official stating on arrival to the Athletes’ Village that the site was "neither safe or ready".Australia

Australia have qualified for the semi-finals of the International Basketball Federation Asia Cup following

China got.They rounded off the win with the same amount of points in the fourth.It is the first time Australia

are competing at the tournament ©FIBAMitch McCarron ended the match with 17 points for Australia, while

West Indies will begin the defence of their International Cricket Council Under-19 World Cup title with a clash against hosts New Zealand.

competition at the Bay Oval in Tauranga.Group A also includes South Africa and Kenya with India, Zimbabwe, Australia

England netball star Jo Harten claimed the Commonwealth Games has outstripped other global competitions to become the most important event in the sport’s calendar.

included at each edition of the Games since Kuala Lumpur 1998, with every final being contested by Australia

Harten, who won bronze with England at Delhi 2010 and now plays for the Sydney-based club Giants in Australia

Ellie Black, the Toronto 2015 Pan-American Games gymnastics all-around gold medallist, has been announced as part of the Canadian team for the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade.

squad will be hoping to go one step further this year after losing in the final of Gwangju 2015 to Australia

South Korea became the first team to reach the semi-finals at the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup in Beirut after a comfortable victory over Philippines.

Haddadi scored 23 points and collected 20 rebounds as Iran claimed a 80-70 victory.China are facing Australia

Australia's Robyn Smith has pledged to be a "good listener" and ensure there is "no-one left behind" if elected to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board.

Smith has served as chief executive of Sport Inclusion Australia, a body formerly known as AUSRAPID,

I have experience right across different areas of disability sport, both in Australia and internationally

Uganda have discovered their pool stage opponents as they prepare to make their Commonwealth Games netball debut at Gold Coast 2018.

pattern, related to their world ranking from the start of July.As a result, world number one ranked Australia

The Ladies Tour of Norway will make its debut on the International Cycling Union (UCI) Women’s WorldTour when riders roll out for the prologue tomorrow in Halden.

for the competition.A total of 23 teams are expected to compete at the race, with national teams from Australia

China produced an epic fightback to beat Syria and reach the quarter-finals of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup in Beirut today.

 China will now face Australia for a place in the last-four.Jordan beat Iraq 84-70 to determine