25 New Zealand race horses touched down in Brisbane yesterday for this year’s Brisbane Racing Carnival, which is shaping up as a Trans-Tasman clash like no other. The New Zealand ‘Bloodstock’ flight, after arrival at Brisbane airport, were transferred onto waiting trucks, before heading off to various stables around south east Queensland. Among the Kiwi [...]
Hyundai A-League Champions Brisbane Roar today announced Ange Postecoglou has resigned as Head Coach, effective immediately. Ange Postecoglou leaves the Brisbane Roar after two-and-a-half years, during which he led the club to unprecedented back-to-back Hyundai A-League Championships, a premiership and consecutive qualification for the AFC Champions League. “I would like to express my gratitude to [...]
With 100 days to go until the London 2012 Olympics commence, ABC Grandstand is getting ready to provide audiences live and commercial free radio coverage of the 30th Summer Olympic Games. The ABC Grandstand commentary team have covered a combined 37 Olympics between them and will be commentating on the London 2012 Olympics with all [...]
Leading public relations agency Gray Media Services (GMS) and Life Arena Sports Management (Life Arena) have today announced a joint venture that will take a new approach to the way athletes generate their third party endorsements. Aimed at positioning both companies within the top tier of sports management agencies, the partnership will focus on creating [...]
Online bookmaker tomwaterhouse.com is betting on the Australian Football League sticking with daytime grand finals for the foreseeable future and Bruce Springsteen being this year’s headline act. AFL fans who think Collingwood president Eddie McGuire will get his way can snap up odds of $5 at tomwaterhouse.com about either the 2012 or 2013 premiership deciders [...]
Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk should abandon a planned public meeting to be held on Sunday, October 16 until he has been properly briefed on vital plans that have the potential to deliver a brighter future for Racing Queensland Limited (RQL) chairman Bob Bentley today said the Lord Mayor of Brisbane was putting the cart [...]
Tiger Woods agreed to endorse luxury watchmaker Rolex Group, his first major sponsorship deal since the scandal that followed the car crash in November 2009 that led to his admission of marital infidelity and divorce. Terms of Tiger’s contract weren’t disclosed in a statement on Geneva-based Rolex’s website. An e-mail seeking comment from Mark Steinberg, [...]
Sydney, Australia Award-winning publication, Australia’s Best, has confirmed the inclusion of Lance Halley from Sportsgirl Australia for an in-depth interview on supply chain management at the Australian company. The first Sportsgirl store was opened in 1948 in Swanston Street, Melbourne, by the Bardas family manufacturing company – who also owned the Sportscraft business. In 1959 [...]