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If you were wondering how the TDA office tipping competition is going, our fearless leader Sam is on top of the table.

He sits just one tip ahead of a tight chasing pack made up of partnerships manager Skye, editor-in-chief Billi, and Claudia, who hasn’t actually started yet but joins our commercial team on Monday! 

What a way to make an entrance.

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The number of consecutive losses the Adelaide Crows have recorded at GMHBA Stadium in Geelong. The Crows’ last win there came in Round 10, 2003, more than two decades ago. Tonight, Adelaide travel to Geelong looking to break the hoodoo. To make things tougher, they will be without captain Jordan Dawson, Taylor Walker, and Rory Laird.

"It's crazy to think that to get a world record without a suit and without any performance-enhancing drugs, as a clean athlete, the bonus is zero dollars."
Australian swimmer Cam McEvoy speaking to media after he broke the 50m freestyle world record in Shenzhen last week. The 31-year-old clocked 20.88 seconds, eclipsing the previous record of 20.91 seconds set in 2009. The record came with no financial reward because the meet was not organised by World Aquatics, the sport's governing body, which only pays bonuses at its own events. The Enhanced Games, which permits drug use, offered $US1 million ($AU1.55 million) for the same feat. McEvoy called the contrast "pretty ludicrous."

Winning both the London and New York marathons in the same year is a rare achievement in elite running, referred to as the London-New York City calendar year double. The first athlete ever to do it was Norwegian woman Grete Waitz, who won both races in 1983 and 1986. Only two other athletes have been able to do the same: Poland’s Wanda Panfil (1990) and Kenya’s Martin Lel (2007).

🏉 The AFL and AFL Players' Association have overhauled their illicit drugs policy, with twice-yearly hair testing headlining the changes. Players who repeatedly test positive will enter a management plan of clinical assessments and treatment, while those “publicly found to have taken illicit substances” face a two to four game suspension. AFLPA chief executive James Gallagher said: "Punitive is not the right approach... what it is about [is] creating accountability.” AFLW players are included under the policy for the first time.

⚽️ The Central Coast Mariners upset the second-placed Wellington Phoenix 2-1 in the A-League Women on Wednesday night in Gosford. The result sees the Mariners jump from eighth to fifth on the league ladder. Eliza Familton opened the scoring with a headed goal on her first A-League Women start, then Isabel Gomez struck the Mariners’ second goal of the night. Wellington pulled one goal back deep in added time through Macey Fraser, but the Mariners held on. Melbourne City remain top of the table heading into the penultimate round of the regular season this weekend. 

🏈 The NFL has confirmed the league’s first ever regular-season game in Australia will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday 11 September, with the Los Angeles Rams hosting the San Francisco 49ers. The date falls on AFL’s semi-final weekend, raising the possibility that Victorian teams could be forced to play a final at Marvel Stadium for the first time since 2011. Melbourne Cricket Club CEO Stuart Fox said the venue could be ready for an AFL match within 24 hours of the NFL game, with up to 7,000 workers required overnight. General sale tickets for the NFL game go live on 8 April.

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Former Brisbane Lions and North Adelaide midfielder Leigh Ryswyk has become the first male AFL player, past or present, to publicly come out as gay.

Here is what to know. 

The 41-year-old came out on Tuesday night on radio station JOY 94.9's GayFL program, telling hosts he had been out to close friends and family for five years. "To people who know me, my closest friends, this is not new," he said. 

Ryswyk played one game for the Brisbane Lions in 2005 before going on to a decorated South Australian National Football League (SANFL) career, playing 226 games for North Adelaide across more than a decade. The SANFL sits one level below the AFL. He was inducted into the AFL Queensland Football Hall of Fame in 2023.

While Ryswyk is the first to identify as gay, he is the second former AFL player to come out as LGBTQIA+, following former West Coast Eagles player Mitch Brown. Brown came out as bisexual in an interview with The Daily Aus in August last year. 

No active men’s AFL player has ever come out publicly.

Ryswyk said he hoped his decision would open the door for others. On the possibility of a potential current player coming out, he said: "I think the AFL and the community will wrap their arms around that player."

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The Formula 1 season heads to Suzuka this weekend for the Japanese Grand Prix, Round 3 of the 2026 season.

Oscar Piastri arrives at Suzuka needing to start a race.  The McLaren driver won seven races in 2025 and led the championship by 34 points with nine rounds remaining, only to finish third after teammate Lando Norris surged to the title. 

Piastri failed to start the Australian Grand Prix after crashing on the way to the grid, then both he and Norris were unable to leave the garage in China due to electrical failures. He sits twelfth overall in the drivers' championship, with three points from a sprint finish. Meanwhile, Norris is sixth on fifteen points.

After two rounds, the championship picture is dominated by Mercedes. Great Britain’s George Russell won the season opener in Melbourne and his Italian teammate Kimi Antonelli won in China. Russell leads the drivers' standings on 51 points, four ahead of Antonelli. Mercedes also leads the constructors' title on 98 points, well clear of Ferrari on 67 and McLaren on 18.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton sit third and fourth. Hamilton’s third place finish at the China GP marked his first podium with Ferrari since joining the team at the beginning of last season. 

Another major talking point heading into Japan involves Aston Martin. Neither of the team’s drivers, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll, have finished a race yet due to extreme vibrations from the Honda engine. Team principal, legendary car designer Adrian Newey, warned before the season opener that the vibrations risked permanent nerve damage to the drivers.

Reports have circulated that Newey will step back from the team principal role to focus on car development. The situation remains unresolved heading into Japan, which is Honda's home race on a circuit it owns.

Meanwhile, Red Bull's Max Verstappen arrives at Suzuka having won the last four Japanese Grands Prix, but having finished sixth in Melbourne and retired in China. The Dutchman arrives in Japan after spending last weekend's break from F1 racing in Germany, where he won a four-hour race at the Nürburgring only to be disqualified for using too many sets of tyres. The race was part of his preparation for a 24 hour event on the same track in May.

Qualifying takes place on Saturday at 5pm (AEDT). The race starts on Sunday at 3pm (AEDT). Drivers will complete 53 laps of the 5.8km Suzuka circuit.