ELENA Dementieva has taken the second set off Australia's Samantha Stosur to take their US Open fourth-round match to a deciding third set.

AUSTRALIAN Jason Day sank a tap-in birdie at the last hole to take the sole lead after three rounds of the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston today.

PAKISTAN'S latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England overnight.

FIVE missed chances, all of them critical and all of them likely to haunt Carlton over a long, agonising summer.

TIM Cahill says the Socceroos are embracing coach Holger Osieck's more enterprising game plan.

OF ALL the names up there as the A-League's early-season top scorers, the most surprising may be Nick Kalmar.

AFTER an emotion-charged end to the season, Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy has delivered his summary of a year from hell.
 

THE Boomers are out of the world basketball championships after a crushing 87-58 loss to Slovenia in the second stage in Turkey today.

TYPHOON Tracy is the Queen of Australian racing. She has been voted Australian Horse of the Year.

AUSTRALIAN Craig Mottram pipped European 10,000 metres silver medallist Chris Thompson in a sprint finish to the Great Yorkshire Run on Sunday.