The Fremantle Dockers take on the Geelong Cats tonight in a bid for their 13th consecutive win.

The Dockers have already blown well past the previous club record of nine consecutive wins. The last time any team in the competition won 13 in a row was Port Adelaide in 2023.

Judging by their start to the season, it’s fairly obvious that the Dockers are premiership contenders. But will they go all the way?

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Australian golfer Adam Scott will make his 100th consecutive major championship start when he tees off at the U.S. Open tonight. The 45-year-old has not missed a major since the 2001 Open Championship, a streak spanning nearly 25 years. Only 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus has gone longer, making 146 consecutive major starts between 1962 and  1998. No active player is close, with Jordan Spieth next on 52. This year’s U.S. Open is being played at Shinnecock Hills, a notoriously difficult course in New York. Scott is one of five Australians in the field.

"His last day on Earth he told me, 'son, whatever happens next, you make sure you represent Queensland and play hard'. That meant so much. While it was hard for him not watching me, I know he had the best seat in the house tonight watching that game and he will be really proud."
Queensland prop Tino Fa'asuamaleaui speaking after playing in State of Origin II at the MCG on Wednesday night, just days after his father Fereti died of cancer. The Maroons came from 10 points down to win 44-24, levelling the series and forcing a decider in Brisbane on 8 July. Teammates wrote his name and his father's on their wrists, echoing how the side rallied around captain Cameron Munster after his father died last year.

No player has scored more goals at a single football World Cup than France's Just Fontaine, who found the back of the net 13 times in 1958. The women's record belongs to American Michelle Akers, who scored 10 for the United States at the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1991.

🏏 Australia beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in Leeds to make it two wins from two at the Women's T20 World Cup. The Aussie bowlers restricted Bangladesh to 77 runs, and opening batter Georgia Voll finished unbeaten on 45 runs to seal the chase inside 10 overs. All-rounder Ellyse Perry was named player of the match after scoring 19 unbeaten runs and taking two wickets. The six-time tournament champions sit top of Group 1 and will face the Netherlands next on Saturday.

🏏 Meanwhile, Australia's men’s cricket team have bounced back from a one-day series loss to beat Bangladesh by four wickets in the first T20 international of a three-match series in Chattogram. Bangladesh had won the  ODI series 2-1, their first ever against Australia. But Australia’s spinners took nine of the 10 wickets to bowl the hosts out for 131. Adam Zampa also became the first Australian man to take 150 wickets in T20 internationals. The second match of the series will be played on Friday night (AEST). 

🎾 Alex de Minaur is into the quarter-finals at Queen's Club after beating Canada's Denis Shapovalov in straight sets (6-4, 6-1). The Australian world No. 6 wrapped up the match in just over an hour to maintain his unbeaten record against Shapovalov in six meetings. Queen's is a grass-court tune-up for Wimbledon, where de Minaur reached the final in 2023 but before losing to Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz. He will play American Brandon Nakashima in the quarter-final. Meanwhile, fellow Aussie Rinky Hijikata will play a Round of 16 match tonight against Czechia’s Jiri Lehecka, the tournament’s second seed.

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The first round of group games is done after another four matches today. 

In Houston, Portugal were held to a 1-1 draw by the Democratic Republic of Congo, who are at their first World Cup since 1974. Cristiano Ronaldo, playing at his sixth World Cup, missed two clear chances for a goal and has now gone 10 major-tournament games without scoring. 

Meanwhile, England beat Croatia 4-2 in Dallas behind a double from captain Harry Kane, Ghana edged Panama 1-0 with a winner in the final minutes of the match, and Colombia beat debutants Uzbekistan 3-1.

South Korea have asked FIFA to investigate after a drone was spotted over their closed training session in Guadalajara on Tuesday. Mexican security forces jammed its signal and forced it down, and two people grabbed it and fled. The incident comes before South Korea plays co-hosts Mexico tomorrow.

Football has a history of drones being used for spying on other teams. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Canada’s women’s team was docked six points, and head coach Bev Priestman was banned for a year after staff flew drones over New Zealand's training. Priestman was later sacked.

The second round of group games starts tomorrow with four matches. 

In Group A, Czechia faces South Africa in Atlanta, with both teams looking to bounce back from opening-game losses, and Mexico will host South Korea in Guadalajara. 

Meanwhile, Group B is wide open after the opening two matches ended in a draw. Switzerland will play Bosnia and Herzegovina in Los Angeles, while Canada is set to host Qatar in Vancouver.

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Queensland fought back from a halftime deficit to beat New South Wales 44-24 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday night, levelling the State of Origin series in front of a record crowd of more than 91,000. The result means the series will now be decided in Queensland. 

Here is how it unfolded.

Queensland opened the scoring with a penalty goal from halfback Sam Walker, but NSW ew led through converted tries to centre Kotoni Staggs and debutant winger Mark Nawaqanitawase. Maroons forward Trent Loiero crossed before the break to make it 12-8, with captain Cameron Munster and prop Tino Fa'asuamaleaui both passing first-half head injury assessments.

Queensland flipped the game early in the second half. 

Winger Selwyn Cobbo scored twice, and fellow winger Jojo Fifita added another to put the Maroons 26-12 ahead with 25 minutes to play. 

NSW  hit back through a second try from Nawaqanitawase before Queensland’s Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow scored to restore a 14-point margin. 

A key moment came when Staggs was sin-binned in the 63rd minute for a high shot on Maroons fullback Kalyn Ponga. The Maroons took advantage of Staggs’ absence with Lindsay Collins crossing, and Cobbo completing his hat-trick. Blues forward Mitchell Barnett added a late consolation try, but the Maroons' six-try second half had long since turned a four-point halftime deficit into a dominant victory.

Walker was named player of the match for an all-round performance, which saw him kick all seven conversions and a penalty. 

The 91,671 fans who packed the MCG set a State of Origin attendance record, edging the previous best of 91,513 at the same ground in 2015. The crowd nearly matched the year's biggest AFL gate at the venue, the 92,231 who saw the Anzac Day game between Collingwood and Essendon. 

An average of 4.294 million viewers also watched the match on television, setting a new State of Origin viewing record.

The result also ended a long Queensland drought in Melbourne with the Maroons claiming their first Origin win at the MCG since 1995.

The series will be decided at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on 8 July. There have been 13 series deciders at the ground, of which NSW has won just three. The Blues will take heart from the most recent of those, having won the 2024 decider at Suncorp to reclaim the shield.