NBC commentators took a while to get his name right. 
Hopefully NASCAR does more street circuit racing.
Going to be a big buzz at this weekend’s Townsville 500!
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Next year’s Suncorp Super Netball grand final will be played in Adelaide. As part of the deal with the SA Government, the Thunderbirds (this year’s grand finalist) will move their home games to Adelaide Entertainment Centre - subject to availability - allowing the government to begin immediate work developing a plan to rejuvenate Netball SA Stadium.
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Wasn’t the Vic deal multi-year?
Adelaide Thunderbirds won their first Suncorp Super Netball title tonight, edging NSW Swifts 60-59 in extra time in front of a sellout crowd at Melbourne’s John Cain Arena.
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The Olympic Rings and Paralympic Agitos will make their Brisbane debut for the first time in Australia since Sydney 2000.
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That’s a eye-watering A$8.9 billion in today’s exchange rate.
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Suncorp Super Netball press release on the eighth team
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What a day / night of sport we have on today!
2 x NRLW games
3 x NRL games
5 x AFL games
3 x Women’s FIFA World Cup games
1 x Bledisloe Cup Rugby game
1 x Day 2 Ashes 5th Test
FINA World Swimming Championships
I’m sure I’ve missed something!
That’s one of the best things about this country… our sporting diversity…
Settle in and enjoy sports fans!
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A great night in for our couch potatoes and sports lovers, that’s for sure 
Sports galore indeed.
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Supercars race tonight and the Netball World Cup is on too
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Australia has blitzed in the pool this meet defeating USA
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Our Aussies have equalled our largest Gold medal haul of 13 achieved in both Canada '05 and Fukuoka '01. 🤯
— Wide World of Sports (@wwos) July 30, 2023
What an incredible effort from everyone! You've done Australia proud! 👏🇦🇺#Fukuoka23 #Swimming #9WWOS pic.twitter.com/f1YanMjceh
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Adding in the medals from other events (including gold for Rhiannan Iffland in women’s high diving and Cassiel Rousseau in men’s 10m platform), Australia finished with 15 gold, 9 silver and 6 bronze at the World Aquatics Championships.
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New look for Golf Australia - looks pretty sharp IMO:
https://twitter.com/GolfAust/status/1685810608577650688
In their own words:
The new Golf Australia logo aims to connect the traditional aspects of golf to the more contemporary by use of a modern abstract monogram that has been developed to represent some of the key ingredients that create the game of golf.
The new brand identity was developed by FutureBrand and executed by SE Creative.
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From old (2006-23):
to new (2023-present):
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re: SEN Group securing the replacement Super Netball licence
I did have a bit of a blink at the reference to SEN owning four basketball licences - although I suspect that’s because NZ women’s basketball is less visible than even the mens’ game (the “fourth” team is a womens counterpart to their Otago Nuggets team, in a revamped NZ women’s league that started last year).
Speaking of NZ basketball, and although this is a few months old:
This has a little bit more than meets the eye… because the Tuatara name isn’t entirely dying.
The same group took over the NZ NBL licence of Auckland’s Super City Rangers a couple of years ago and branded that under the Auckland Tuatara name… and that is not going away as far as I can tell; they finished the 2022-23 season and is looking fairly ready to go for 2023-24.
Given the expenses of having to go back-and-forth to Australia (as opposed to the Korean-targeted team basing themselves in Geelong), plus all the cruel problems of missing two seasons due to Covid border closures - they probably said “shove it” (by the sounds of how they treated the AUS Baseball Federation, with how they found out about the baseball section being liquidated) and stuck to a much more local competition, certainly one with a lot fewer expenses as they wouldn’t have to fly further than Invercargill, plus only having to pay 11 or 12 players and not 24 or 25.
Baseball’s always been a bit of a black sheep over there as far as diamond-sports have been concerned - even in mens, the “Blacksox” national softball team has a lot more noticed than the baseball, in the minimal space left after rugby and cricket takes its share (something of course Australian baseball is feeling too, this is not the 90s heyday). Tis a bit of a shame though.
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