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Moreton Bay Mayor Peter Flannery and Softball Australia CEO Sarah Loh at Kayo Stadium on Tuesday.

NRL to make way for softball, as World Cup locks Dolphins out

Kayo Stadium will host the 2027 Women’s Softball World Cup, igniting a battle between Redcliffe and Logan to secure diamond sports for the 2032 Olympic Games.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Top earners: Alex Condon, Jett Lawrence and Travis Bazzana.

Jett used to share a sandwich with his family to save money. Now he’s one of Australia’s richest athletes

In the fifth and final part of our series on the biggest Australian earners in sport, we look at the 23-and-under category, including motocross superstar Jett Lawrence, whose family gambled it all on him and his brother making it big – and won.

  • Marc McGowan
No.1 draft pick Travis Bazzana and Team Australia are preparing to face the might of Japan.

Ohtani could be baseball’s GOAT. This is the Australian star about to take him on

Australia’s first-ever Major League Baseball No.1 draft pick and his countrymen are plotting a titanic upset against Shohei Ohtani – the biggest name in the sport – in his home country, Japan.

  • Marc McGowan
Demolition work has begun on a PCYC in Logan Central, which will make way for the new Logan Indoor Sports Centre Olympic and Paralympic venue.

From PCYC to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic stage: Work begins on new sporting hub

Work has started on another Olympic venue in south-east Queensland, with excavators moving in on a landmark Logan building to clear the site for a new indoor stadium.

  • Cameron Atfield
Griffith University vice chancellor Carolyn Evans and Logan Mayor Jon Raven sign a MOI to build a baseball and softball stadium at the university’s Logan campus.

Logan mayor sets three-month deadline for Olympic stadium funding

The clock is ticking as Logan races to secure funding to build a stadium to host Olympic baseball and softball in 2032 after Griffith University offered up some land.

  • Cameron Atfield
Ticara Geldenhuis at her childhood club, the Comets Baseball Club field.

Finally, a new professional league of their own for female baseball players

The movie A League of Their Own put American women’s baseball in the public sphere, but since 1954 there hasn’t been a professional league in the US for women. Until now.

  • Frances Howe
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Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrates with catcher Will Smith.

Dodgers win game seven thriller to take back-to-back World Series crowns

The Los Angeles Dodgers have pulled off a remarkable win in game seven of the World Series to become the first Major League Baseball team in 25 years to win consecutive titles.

Molly Paddison at the Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) trials in the US.

‘Such a sick opportunity’: The Qld teen making history in US women’s sport

Molly grew up playing on mixed teams and looking up to male stars. Now that’s all changing.

  • Dominique Tassell
Render of the proposed baseball stadium at Griffith University’s Logan campus at Meadowbrook.

Bandits on the run? Team weighs up Logan move, as softball makes own pitch

The planned new Logan ballpark could attract Brisbane’s only professional baseball club, but softball also wants to ensure it does not strike out.

  • Cameron Atfield
The stadium would have a permanent 5000-seat capacity and be expanded for the Games.

Logan unveils ballpark vision as mayor makes pitch to Asian investors

Logan Mayor Jon Raven has taken his council’s vision for an Olympic ballpark to Asia in a bid to attract investors to build the stadium in time for the 2032 Games.

  • Cameron Atfield