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$US4.215 million ($AU6.7 million)
The price paid for a Chicago Bulls jersey worn by Michael Jordan in his first season in the NBA. It’s the fifth most expensive NBA jersey sold at an auction. 

"It might be one of the biggest upsets I've been on the side of the court for."
British tennis commentator Tim Henman after five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Świątek was beaten by 19-year-old wild card Alexandra Eala at the Miami Open. Eala, the only Filipino player on the women’s tour, beat Świątek in straight sets and will face Jessica Pegula in the semi-final. World number one Aryna Sabalenka is the favourite to win the tournament.

Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in U.S. men’s college basketball history. Krzyzewski, nicknamed Coach K, won a record 1,202 games between 1975 and 2022. He is most famous for his tenure coaching the Duke University Blue Devils between 1980 and 2022. Duke has been in pop culture headlines recently, with a character from the third season of ‘The White Lotus’ sporting a t-shirt with its logo.

🏉 The AFL has fined West Coast Eagles star Harley Reid $1,000 for raising his middle finger to crowd members during his side’s loss to Brisbane at the Gabba on Saturday. The Eagles remain winless after two games and will take on Fremantle in a Western Australian derby on Sunday. Round three of the AFL begins tonight with Essendon hosting Port Adelaide.  

🏏 Day Two of the Sheffield Shield began at 11:05am today and saw South Australia take control of the match and establish a 176-run lead. Jake Lehmann starred for South Australia in its opening innings, scoring 102 runs. At the time of writing, Queensland has begun its second innings strongly, trailing by fewer than 100 runs with nine wickets in hand. Play will conclude at 6:05pm (AEDT).

⚽ Arsenal has booked an unlikely spot in the semi-finals of the Women’s Champions League after defeating Real Madrid 3-0 in the second leg of the quarter-final between the two sides. Real Madrid started the match with a 2-0 aggregate lead after winning the opening leg last week, but a superb performance from Arsenal, which included two goals from Alessia Russo, saw them overturn the deficit. French club Lyon also advanced, beating Bayern Munich 6-1 on aggregate.

The rugby league Ashes series will be revived for the first time in 22 years. The NRL announced this morning that Australia and England will play a three-match series in October and November this year.

The rugby league Ashes was contested 39 times between 1908 and 2003. Australia won the last 13 editions. Australia and England haven’t played each other at all since 2017, partly due to COVID-19.

The re-introduction of an Ashes tour is part of the NRL’s efforts to increase the sport’s international presence.

The second of the three matches might present a dilemma for Australian sports fans, with the match scheduled to kick off 40 minutes before the Wallabies take on England’s rugby union side at Twickenham.

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo said: “The Ashes has such a storied history, with so many legendary moments that make up the fabric of rugby league across multiple generations. A Kangaroo Tour unites the rugby league southern and northern hemispheres and is an incredible opportunity to grow the international game.”

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Gout Gout returns to action this weekend at the Maurie Plant Meet at Melbourne’s Lakeside Stadium. The event will see several of Australia and the world’s best athletes competing. The current men’s 200m Olympic champion, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, will contest the 400m.

Gout will be racing in the Peter Norman Memorial 200m. The event is arguably the most significant of his career to date, as it will see the 16-year-old come up against senior elite athletes. Gout has made headlines multiple times in the last year with record-breaking runs.

In December, he set a new Australian record in the men’s 200m, running a blistering 20.04 at the Australian All Schools Championships. That run also broke the under-16 200m record, which was previously held by none other than 8-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt.

This month, he became the only Australian to break the elusive 20-second barrier in the 200m, running a wind-assisted 19.98. While that time won’t be officially recorded because of the illegal tailwind, it put the world on notice.

Botswana’s Olympic champion Tebogo has chosen to compete in the men’s 400m and will not race against Gout, but complimented the young athlete, saying: “His style of running, it’s top-notch. I believe he’s going to be the next big thing for the continent.”

Aussie Olympian Torrie Lewis is set for a tough race in the women’s 200m when she comes up against South Africa’s Miranda Coetzee.

Discus thrower Matthew Denny, who won bronze for Australia in Paris, comes into this meet after recording this season’s best throw of 67.82 metres at the Adelaide Invitational.

Eleanor Patterson will be the favourite for the women’s high jump after winning silver at last weekend’s World Athletics Indoor Championships. It’s also the first time the 2022 world champion has competed in Victoria, her home state, in seven years.

One of the most anticipated races on the schedule is the men’s 1500m. 18-year-old Cameron Myers, fresh off breaking a series of under-20 middle-distance records in the U.S, will take on Aussie Olympians Oliver Hoare and Peter Bol. The current Australian champion, Adam Spencer, will also be vying for gold.

Saturday’s event will also feature men’s and women’s ambulant 100m events, with several Paralympians in action. In the men’s 100m, Paralympic champion James Turner will take on bronze medallist Chad Perris. In the women’s event, Australian Paralympic bronze medallist Mali Lovell will look to upset Kiwi Paralympic champion Anna Grimaldi.

The Maurie Plant Meet will be broadcast on Channel 7 (and 7Plus) from 7:00pm on Saturday.

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