CRICKET - The grassy Port Elizabeth pitch has been cut back and could be shorn further before the second Test begins on Thursday night following instructions from the South African camp.
BOXING - Daniel Geale has set his sights on WBA middleweight boxing world champion Gennady Golovkin after Garth Wood's corner threw in the towel at the end of the sixth round, by which time their game-but-outclassed fighter had been down three times.
AFL - The Western Bulldogs made light of flooded changerooms and a delayed start to beat St Kilda by 11 points in the NAB Challenge match at a sodden Simonds Stadium on Wednesday night, taking the win 0.10.7 (67) to 1.7.5 (56).
OLYMPICS - Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has becoming the most decorated Winter Olympian ever with 13 medals after Norway won the first Olympic mixed relay in biathlon.
BOXING - Rugby league star Paul Gallen has made an exhilarating professional boxing debut, climbing off the canvas to stop Herman Ene-Purcell in two frantic rounds on Wednesday.
RUGBY LEAGUE - Only two players from the Sydney Roosters NRL premiership winning line-up of last season will be missing when they clash with Wigan in the World Club Challenge on Saturday.
GOLF - England's Ian Poulter is the first major upset at the $US9 million World Match Play Championship, losing to American Rickie Fowler 2 and 1.
RUGBY UNION - Bath coach Mike Ford has revealed Sam Burgess will take a pay cut when he joins the English rugby side from South Sydney at the end of the 2014 NRL campaign.
