Yee-hah! Time for a double.
and what a waste of time that was. Let’s never hear of the Ignite Cup again.
Full list of winners at the 2025 ASC Media Awards
Best sports documentary Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story - In Films / Nine Network
Best sport coverage by an individual – written Peter Badel – The Courier Mail
Best coverage of sport for people with disability Elizabeth Wright – ABC Highly Commended - The Periscope Crew, Everywhere
Best coverage of a sporting event Seven Network - Bathurst 1000
Best coverage of sport by a club or organisation Box Hill Hawks - 2025 VFL season
Best depiction of inclusive sport Vicki Schwarz - Nine News Adelaide
Best sport podcast In The Beginning - Liam Flanagan and Courtney Atkinson Highly Commended - The Back Court, Netball Australia
Best sport coverage by an individual – broadcast Bruce McAvaney - Seven Network / SBS
Best reporting of an issue in sport Jessica Halloran and Stephen Rice - The Australian
Best sport profile - written Andrew Webster - The Australian
Best coverage of local and community sport James Gardiner - Newcastle Herald
Best sports photography Martin Keep, AFP - All eyes on Gout Gout
Rising Star Award Dan Batten - Geelong Advertiser
Lifetime Achievement Award Phil Hillyard
Bryce Cotton has been named NBL MVP for the sixth time. He beat Kendric Davis by one vote, and Davis is not happy.
If I were Kendric, I’d be using this snub as powerful fuel to take the Kings to the promised land. 
Cotton may get the MVP but the Kings will win the title.
Some sad news in horse racing - three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva has died at the age of 26 after a battle with colic.
Are we grtting her stuffed like Phar Lap?
I remember watching that race as an 11-year old me back in 2005. A generational horse and something we will never see again
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Townsville Fire are the 2025/26 WNBL champions, after beating Perth Lynx in overtime in this afternoon’s grand final game two in Perth.
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Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Jamie Melham was named The Advertiser Woman of the Year at a gala event in Adelaide last week. She also won the Woman in Sport award.
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