Sport
Women and sport
When will we pay our sportswomen properly?
KATHRYN WICKS This week Cricket Australia awarded healthy pay rises to our elite female cricketers. But KATHRYN WICKS believes it's still not enough.
Swimming for youth
Can swimming keep you young?
Charmaine Yabsley New research has found that regular laps of the pool may be the answer to prolonging youth.
Islamic female boxer takes fight into the ring
Lara O'Toole A Melbourne restaurant was so impressed with this champion boxer's story that they flew her out for a training session with their staff.
Fun photos
Wonderfully hilarious vintage ski fashion
SIMONE MITCHELL Sure, you're warm. But you look like a complete dork.
Sporting stereotypes
Girls and sport
CHRISTOPHER SCANLON Why is it that girls are often not encouraged to extend themselves when it comes to physical activity?
Viral video
Gymnast's shocking routine will blow you away
Sam Laird This gymnast's eye-popping routine has gone viral for good reason, and must be seen to be believed.
Veteran NBA basketballer's powerful coming out story
Jason Collins, a veteran centre in the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced on Monday that he was gay, breaking one of the final frontiers in US sports and society.
Friday fun
The funniest faces ever pulled in sport
SIMONE MITCHELL Having a silly face is the downside of trying really, really hard.
Best meltdowns
Watch: 18 spectacular sports melt-downs
Freak-outs, meltdowns, tantrums, hissy fits — call 'em what you want, but sports figures losing their cool in public is highly entertaining.
Sexist tweet
Rugby player's sexist tweet creates storm
Former Wallaby David Campese has been criticised for questioning Fairfax Media for having a female journalist cover rugby union.
Weighing in on the Liesel debate
MICHELLE BRIDGES Is it safe to dip a toe in the water on the Leisel Jones/Olympics/overweight subject yet? Let's see ...
Sporting highs and lows
Love of the game
JILL STARK The end of the AFL season may be a reprieve for those who find the saturation coverage of our national game tiresome. But for Jill Stark, it’s a time of mourning.
A fair playing field?
How successful do female athletes need to be?
KATHRYN WICKS Before they're finally given the appropriate resources and funding?
Sports bra science
Women need more support if they're to embrace sport
Julie Power A recent study has found that breast bounce caused 50 per cent of women pain during exercise and daily life.
Scheduling exercise
The exercise trap
Charmaine Yabsley How busy women fit time to sweat into their schedules.
London 2012
20 female Olympians we love
KATHLEEN LEE-JOE Here are just a few champions we’re cheering for.
London 2012
The Olympics needs more playground sports
DOM KNIGHT DOM KNIGHT on why these playground sports should be taken to an elite level.
London 2012
Sally Pearson Wins Gold
MICHAEL GLEESON Sally Pearson has won the gold medal in the women's 100m hurdles at a new Olympic record time.
London 2012
Gold! Slingsby secures Australia's first individual gold
JOHN HUXLEY Tom Slingsby snags the first individual gold medal won by an Australian sailor since a team first competed at the London 1948 Games.
London 2012
Sally Pearson, Australia's great gold hope
MICHAEL GLEESON An appetite for success fuels hurdler Sally Pearson -- Australia's great gold hope.
London 2012
High drama in the women's team sprint
SAMANTHA LANE How could it be that Anna Meares and her team sprint partner Kaarle McCulloch rode faster than the gold medallists yet wound up with bronze?
Tears of disappointment as Seebohm scores silver
Michael Cowley Emily Seebohm, the Olympics and tears of disappointment. Sadly the three seem to travel together, although this time for the 20-year-old, the tears were accompanied by a silver memento.
Lauren Jackson to carry flag at Olympics opening ceremony
SAMANTHA LANE The first thing Lauren Jackson did when she was asked to carry the Australian flag at the Olympics opening ceremony in London was ask why.
Still going strong
Age shall not weary her
KATHRYN WICKS How old is too old for women when it comes to sport?
Olympics
Second-class Olympians fume over team gender bias
Samantha Lane Australia’s female basketball stars have revealed that they usually travel overseas in economy class while their male counterparts are treated to business class.
Cycling
Stomach bug ends Cadel's hopes
Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans's dream of claiming back-to-back victories in the Tour de France were left in tatters on Wednesday when the Australian lost almost 12 minutes after being struck with a stomach illness in the hours before a brutally tough 16th stage in the Pyrenees.
Olympic apetites
What do the Olympians eat?
With the Games approaching, four medal hopefuls tell Sarina Lewis and Kirsten Lawson the dishes that keep them going.
Cycling
Tour de France sabotage leave riders flat
Rupert Guinness An act of sabotage marred the first Pyrenean stage of Tour de France on Sunday when tacks thrown on to the road on a 200m stretch before the summit of the last climb saw Australian defending champion Cadel Evans and up to 30 riders puncture.
The classic comeback
To get back to the top, just add fun
KATHRYN WICKS One of the things we love most about sport is watching someone who gets knocked down get back up again and succeed.
Sport
25 memorable Olympic moments
Greg Baum The Olympic games have always inspired greatness and courage, heartache and controversy. Let's chronicle some of the most unforgettable events over the past 116 years of competition.
Dear Gina Rinehart
An open letter to Gina Rinehart
KATHRYN WICKS Hey Gina! If you can spare some change you'll change women's football in this country forever.
Health
Off-court antics at the Olympics
Scott Ellis and Leesha McKenny James Buckley, author of Sex and the Olympics: The Unauthorised Guide admits "there's actually a fair bit [of STD] floating around" the Olympic village.
Feminsim
Racism v Sexual assault
CLEMENTINE FORD Does the AFL believe one crime is greater than the other?
Stosur out of French Open
Sara Errani has shattered Samantha Stosur's French Open hopes with a shock semi-final defeat of Australia's grand slam champion.
Sport
Is it Stosur's time to shine?
KATHRYN WICKS Samantha Stosur has made it through to tonight’s French Open semi-final without dropping a set. Things are getting exciting ...
Sport
Clever tactics
KATHRYN WICKS All of a sudden netball coach Lisa Beehag’s madness makes perfect sense.
Super woman
She's a super freak
KATHRYN WICKS Ellyse Perry possesses enough athletic talent to represent her country in two sports. So why did she get an ultimatum from Canberra United instead of a fitting send-off?
Sport
Yes, we can
KATHRYN WICKS Straight from the ‘‘they said you’d never make it’’ files this week comes the Australian women’s rowing eight.
Sport
Australia's top 10 female medal hopes
KATHRYN WICKS Get some sleep in the bank now - the Olympic Games are only two months away.
Paralysed British woman finishes marathon after 16 days
A paralysed British woman became the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit as she crossed the finishing line in London on Tuesday 16 days after the race began.
Sport
Our women are worth it
KATHRYN WICKS If only FFA bosses and their rich club owners spent more time cooking up better ways to present women’s football and improve players’ skills than bickering about a few million dollars.
Sport
Game changer
KATHRYN WICKS Is professional athletes' use of social media having an impact on motivating fans to attend matches?
Fighting fit
Let's get physical
KATHRYN WICKS Eleven years ago Trudy Gardner won the right to play in the national netball league while pregnant. How times have changed.
Sport
Let's get angry
KATHRYN WICKS A sell out match and an outcry from angry fans is not enough to make Channel 10 broadcast an important international netball game live.
Olympics
New women's uniforms aim to cut 'perve factor'
Samantha Lane As they fight for more exposure, female Olympians worldwide will be more covered up at this year's London games.
Cycling
Pendleton ready to take on friend turned foe
Samantha Lane From the mouth of her fiercest rival, these were the words Anna Meares would have least expected.
Are we guilty of playing nice with our sportswomen?
KATHRYN WICKS KATHRYN WICKS ponders whether we are soft on our sportswomen when things don’t go their way ... and, if we are, is that letting them down?
Sport
Wanting it all
KATHRYN WICKS Co-captain of the NSW Swifts netball team Mo’onia Gerrard, on wanting to continue her career as a professional sportswoman and have six children too.
Sport
Threat to axe W-League to save a few dollars
KATHRYN WICKS Should A-League club owners decide to axe their W-League sides to save a few dollars, it could cost Australia their chance to win the Women's World Cup.
Sport
Bridging the gap
KATHRYN WICKS Why is it so hard for women's sport to make the jump from semiprofessionalism to professionalism?
Sports
Counting down: Australia's top sportswomen
KATHRYN WICKS There is a wealth of female talent among the current crop of Australian sportswomen. Kathryn Wicks picks her top 21 - judging by recent performance and contribution to their sports.
Sport
The backyard-to-baggy-green dream
KATHRYN WICKS How did a slightly framed kid from Sydney’s North Shore end up one of Australia’s most celebrated cricketers?
Do we want to read about sportswomen?
KATHRYN WICKS For as long as I have worked at the Sydney Morning Herald we have had complaints that we do not cover women’s sport nearly enough, nor nearly well enough. Daily Life allows us to change that.
Sport
Melissa Barbieri: Why you should know this name
KATHRYN WICKS Kathryn Wick speaks to the captain of the Australian women’s soccer team.
