It is the race that stops the nation, but, with 24 runners doing battle over 3200 metres, it is also one of the toughest horse races to punt on. Former MP for O'Connor Wilson Tuckey gives his advice on picking a winner in the Melbourne Cup.
The cane toad is a pest. So before you kill them, try racing them. They'll love it, says Matt Smith. (They won't really love it. But you'll have some fun, and they had it coming.)
Lleyton Hewitt has never been afraid of cashing in on his fame but charging fans to receive a text message of the name of your third child? This could be a new low in the sordid commercialisation of celebrity.
One of the greatest pleasures of the Giants' journey to the World Series - and the list is long - has been watching the rest of the country freak out over the routine eccentricities of Bay Area life, writes the San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub.
Sporting Intelligence reveals the links between the late Paul the octopus and PR companies and major companies who benefited from the media exposure giving to the psychic calamari.
The New Yorker's Roger Angell remembers hearing José Feliciano performing The Star-Spangled Banner at Tiger Stadium before the fifth game of the 1968 World Series. How will this series' performers fare?
Forty years ago today Muhammad Ali beat Jerry Quarry. To celebrate he partied with Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Ralph Abernathy, Mrs Coretta King, Arthur Ashe, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. The Guardian's Frank Keating retells the tale.
Little regarded Gothic Crown is just one giant step away from taking his place in the Melbourne Cup field. And if it can win Saturday's Lexus Stakes then his trainer, Todd Balfour, could have a horse alongside sheikhs and Bart Cummings, writes the SMH's Andrew Eddy.
The math doesn't add up for the NBA, which continues to bleed money at an alarming rate, writes Forbes' Kurt Badenhausen.
Paul the octopus is dead! Long live Paul! Crikey Sports looks at the life and times -- not to mention the poor impersonators -- of the great cephalopod.
