Sport News Update, what you need to know

Sport News Update, what you need to know.

GOLF - Australian Jason Day has a three-shot shot lead over Justin Rose at the halfway mark of the final round of the US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.

NETBALL - Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander declared Australia's Netball World Cup triumph a greater achievement than last year's Commonwealth Games gold medal, the hosts defeating arch-rivals New Zealand 58-55 for their third straight title in front of a world-record 16,752 crowd.

CRICKET - Australia suffered another embarrassing collapse on their Ashes tour, with only a 98-run stand between Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon allowing the tourists to save face against Northampton.

BASKETBALL - Australia's men's and women's basketball teams are just one more solid performance away from qualifying for the Rio Olympics after cruising to victory in their respective series openers against New Zealand on Saturday night.

RUGBY UNION - Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says he has around half a dozen big decisions to make before settling on his 31-man World Cup squad as he picks through the pieces of his side's bitter reality check in Saturday's Bledisloe Cup defeat to the All Blacks.


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