Category: Sports & Games

The Ashes is cricket’s most famous contest, played between England and Australia. Less well known is the birthplace of the Ashes: Sunbury.

Between the wars, Cocky Marr was the Carlton Football Club’s unofficial mascot: a crested cockatoo who loved the Blues, and despised bad umpiring.

The VFL/AFL has seen many changes in the last 120 years; here are the AFL teams that have changed their name.

In 1953, Geelong set an Australian football record that still stands today: the longest winning streak in VFL/AFL history.

Mark Edmonson is the last Australian man to win the Australian Open singles; he also set a tennis record that stands to this day.

Australia’s first women’s football matches included department store workers, fancy dress costumes, and a player from the north of England named Trixie.

The history of the AFL grand final involves challenge matches, bloodbaths, skipped years and a Geelong lawyer named Kenneth McIntyre.

Before live TV, Synthetic Test Cricket used telegraph cables and radio to bring the Ashes home to Australia.

On December 26 each year, test cricket comes to the MCG in a celebrated local tradition. But the history of the Boxing Day Test is …