SPORTS

The Australian Barbarians have gone within inches of pulling off the great shock of the 2012 Water Polo Pan Pacs missing a last second shot to settle for a 9-9 draw against the world number six-ranked USA men's team in the last game on day six of the tournament.

The Aussie Stingers, Australia's women's water polo team, has tuned up for tomorrow's gold medal showdown with the USA at the Water Polo Pan Pacs by edging out China 8-7 at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.

23-year-old Brendan Grace won the Joburg Open by one one shot on Sunday to pick up his maiden European Tour title.

South Australia's Glenn O'Shea, 22, captured his third gold medal of the 2011/12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Series, winning the men's omnium in Beijing.

It was a simply splendid performance today by Amanda Spratt who launched an audacius solo attack to claim the elite women's road race crown at the 2012 Mars Cycling Australia Road National Cycling Championships in Buninyong, near Ballarat.

Victoria's Simon Gerrans, 31, has been crowned Australian champion after a thrilling elite men's road race at the 2012 Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships in Buninyong, near Ballarat.

A goalkeeper made a spectacular goal from his end to the opponent's net with a single kick during a windy match in England's top soccer league on Wednesday.

To all soccer fans out there, soccer superstar David Beckham turned down an offer to join the Paris Saint-Germain’s club and decided to stay to play for Los Angeles Galaxy. Is he the next Hollywood action star?

The Australian pair of James Castrission and Justin Jones planted the country's flag at South Pole on Dec 31, 2011, to mark that they reached the bottom of the world on foot.

Football fans will be treated to a match that will literally give them the highs when Euro 12 opens on June 8, 2012. Ukrainian mountaineers will perform the ceremonial opening game on Mount Everest as their country co-hosts the month-long tournament with Poland.

The third day of the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race has turned quite fierce between maxi boats Investec Loyal and Wild Oats XI as the line honours is now more contentious up to the finish. (Update: After crossing the finish line with only a 3 minute advantage over Wild Oats XI, Investec Loyal's victory is now under protest and a hearing will be held Thursday at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania at 10 AM AEST.)

Two teams have retired from the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race as one is down by engine failure and the other a broken gooseneck while traversing the rough seas on the first day of the race.

A hooligan charged at a goalkeeper during a Dutch football match Wednesday night but was knocked down and kicked by the player. The referee then gave the goalie a red card angering his team, who then walked out canceling the game.

Proving he has definitely moved on from the worldwide phenomena of his 72-day marriage with former ex-wife Kim Kardashian, Kris is focusing on his basketball career. Proof? The NBA star has just re-signed last Tuesday with the New Jerseys Nets.

Police has detained and charged Chicago Bears player Sam Hurd after he accepted one kilo of packaged cocaine from an undercover federal agent posing as a drug supplier who sold it to him.

You're probably familiar with his story, but this is for those who don't really follow football: the Broncos were 1-4 when the coaches benched the first-string quarterback and started Tim Tebow, and fans felt that that they did so because they'd didn't really expect much for the season and that they might as well hush his irritating, unrelenting supporters by letting him try and watching him eventually fail.

With Lamar Odom leaving Los Angeles, his travels will certainly mean changes for the series he makes with his Kardashian wife, Khloe.

The mixture of sincere piety and incredible success on the field has made Tim Tebow the most-debated occurrence of the National Football League this year.

A 19-foot great white circled a fishing boat off northern Perth forcing a popular beach to temporarily close while in Angourie, NSW, a surfer nearly got bitten by a shark while on his surfboard on Sunday.

HSBC is a bank that's up-to-trend and they know that surfing and rugby are both of Aussies' biggest sports. The waves are high at the SEVENS Rugby Series, a splashy and exhilarating tournament sponsored by HSBC.

The Sunderland manager has been axed following the disastrous performance of the team.

Four outstanding Australians will be honoured at the ninth annual G'Day USA LosAngeles black-tie gala in January: Guy Pearce, Air Supply, and Luc Longley.

Football, or soccer, is played and loved across the world. Part of its charm is the fact that no one can use their hands to touch the ball, instead, different parts of the body, like the feet, knees, and the head are used. Using a person's feet and knees is all fine and dandy, however, using the head is different issue.

Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Mario Gotze is a target for Arsenal, after the youngster starred against the Gunners last night in their Champions League group stage match up.

World and Olympic track cycling champion Anna Meares can add the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) athlete of the year award to her growing list of achievements in 2011.

The women's Institute Challenge begins on Sunday November 27 as leading players from across Australia converge on the AIS in Canberra to determine the best water polo state in the country.

The recent 16 and under National Club Championships had a lot of highlights, including the involvement of two members of the water polo community with playing, coaching and refereeing as part of their resumes. As well as that, they are both deaf.

Out of the 19 players still in contention for the Aussie Stingers’ 2012 London Olympics squad, Mosman’s Hannah Buckling holds the sole tag of being the youngest member of the squad and the only player not to have played a test for Australia.

The Southeast Asian games in Indonesia has been marred by the accidental death of two civilians, while 10 were hurt and hospitalized, as a result of a stampede that broke off after some disgruntled fans set fire to two ticket booths.