AMID the revelry of the leading crews there is one man who rises above the Customs House rum banter with a gold medal standard of bonhomie and quick quip.

TO PROPERLY understand this, the Quote of the Year, you need to get the context. See, last week in the NBL, Melbourne had just beaten Adelaide 81-70 to snap a three-game losing streak. Immediately after full-time, Fox Sports' Andrew Gaze grabs man of the match, Mark Worthington, Melbourne's veteran journeyman,..read more

THE lure of a late-season juvenile black-type race in Adelaide tomorrow has proven irresistible for a number of the country's leading stables with interstate-based trainers Lee Freedman, Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Jason Coyle all represented in the $100,000 listed Dequetteville Stakes.

QUEST skipper Bob Steel has put his boat's Sydney to Hobart handicap triumph down to his crew's blend of youthful grunt and experience and, which helped overcome the potentially damaging loss of one of the spinnaker sails.

Tony Cable A veteran sailor takes to the seas for his 45th Sydney to Hobart.