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White says salary cap and lack of depth hold back Australian teams

3:00 AM | FORMER Springboks World Cup-winning coach Jake White has suddenly discovered why Australian teams have only occasionally won the Super Rugby tournament. It adds up to a shortage of numbers and an uneven playing field.

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Robinson in running to lead from the front

3:00 AM | FRONT-ROWERS are rarely handed the captaincy reins, but Test prop Benn Robinson is suddenly in strong contention to be the Waratahs' skipper for the opening month of the Super Rugby tournament.

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Regrets, Taufua and Fifita say they have a few

3:00 AM | OVERWHELMED by a sense of betrayal, Andrew Fifita and Mark Taufua have both said and done things they've since lived to regret.

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Lankans eye Australia's new quicks as weakness

3:00 AM | AUSTRALIA'S new-look ODI attack is set to come under intense scrutiny from Sri Lanka today after captain Mahela Jayawardene declared Michael Clarke's bowlers were the weak point in the home side.

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Independent view will open eyes to a whole new ball game

3:00 AM | IT HAS taken nearly four years of hard-fought negotiation, but rugby league is today finally back in charge of its own destiny for the first time since April 1, 1995.

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Blair shows makings of a leader at new club

3:00 AM | ADAM BLAIR says that while he is taking a back seat in his early days at Wests Tigers, he wants to develop into a leader at the club. And he has named the four fellow players who motivate him through their deeds.

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Pressure point

3:00 AM | Nathan Buckley will be under a pressure and spotlight that few first-year coaches have experienced.

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Hawks look to new horizons

3:00 AM | Anguish of three-point preliminary final loss to Collingwood spurs players on.

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Giants focus on future

3:00 AM | Intra-club game might be the one opportunity Giants fans get to see their team win this year.

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Watts moving forward in Demons reshuffle

3:00 AM | Melbourne coach Mark Neeld says he intends to play the talented youngster forward.

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Tough love the best lesson for Daw, say Roos

3:00 AM | Chief executive urges Daw's critics to consider his tough background before judging him.

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Ling sings new top Cat's praises

3:00 AM | Says burden of captaining reigning premier Geelong at such a young age will not affect Joel Selwood's performance this season.

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Lankans to test Australian attack

3:00 AM | Mahela Jayawardene says Michael Clarke's bowlers the weak point in the home side.

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Darcy bullish about Dogs, while Richo rates Tigers

3:00 AM | Former Western Bulldogs star backs his old club to reverse its 2011 slide.

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Proud Hewitt courts return to top tier

3:00 AM | Current goal is simply a return to the 16-nation world group for the first time since 2007.

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Brown puts rough ride behind him to resume his Rain Affair

3:00 AM | COREY BROWN'S build-up to claiming a third straight Expressway Stakes at Rosehill tomorrow didn't go as expected at Gosford yesterday.

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All racing world awaits next act in Black Caviar's theatre of speed

3:00 AM | FOR most, if not all, of her 17 starts, Peter Moody has taken Black Caviar to the races knowing that she would win. It will be no different tomorrow afternoon at Caulfield, but the prospect of victory in the Orr Stakes still tickles him like never before.

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Waller brings out his big guns for autumn

3:00 AM | CHRIS WALLER is not one for keeping mundane records, but Sydney's premier trainer has a mammoth 18 runners entered at the historic Rosehill meeting tomorrow.

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Black Caviar has taken the easy road

3:00 AM | Action, in the form of Black Caviar fluency with giant strides, speaks louder than words, thus overshadowing the substance of records.

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Makin's smart band of broodmares courted by some of Europe's biggest-name stallions

3:00 AM | Starcraft's owner Paul Makin has made inroads into the European thoroughbred market over the past five years, establishing one of the most enviable broodmare bands in the northern hemisphere. His goal is to race their progeny throughout Europe and America, and have a small Australian team.

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