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It’s game on in media players’ brutal battle for the NRL
As for NRL supremo Peter V’landys, like any good auctioneer he is tirelessly working the room.
- Elizabeth Knight
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The major twist to the Scott Pendlebury milestone guernsey saga
The 38-year-old will wear up to 12 jumpers in the match, all with his No.10 in gold – which the AFL approved late last month – and it was speculated they could each be worth about $25,000 at auction and $300,000 in totality.
- Marc McGowan
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- Western United
Sporting elite, including Scott Pendlebury, facing losses as $75m trust collapses
The court-ordered liquidation comes as shareholders in the troubled Western Melbourne Group scramble to find new lines of funding for a large sporting complex in Melbourne’s western fringe.
- Sarah Danckert and Kieran Rooney
Angus was offered a $3.5 million racing deal. Then he received a death threat
In a sport where financial support is the difference between greatness or failure, race car drivers are particularly vulnerable to online scams.
- Frances Howe
‘It’s life-changing’: Australian basketball star signs record $5 million WNBA deal
Alanna Smith was once cut from the WNBA and the Opals. Now she has signed the richest contract by an Australian woman in team sport.
- Frances Howe
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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
- Australia’s richest athletes
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Kerr and Fowler are big names. But they’re not the richest female Aussie athletes
There are big names and some lesser-knowns in our list of the top 20 highest-paid Australian women athletes, based on salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns.
- Marc McGowan
- Australia’s richest athletes
- AFL 2026
Top earners: The 20 AFL players who rake in the most money
After revealing the 50 highest-earning Australian athletes earlier this week, where no Australian rules footballers made the list, we turn our attention to the AFL.
- Marc McGowan
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Top earners: Australia’s richest athletes
We’ve spent months researching the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorships of Australia’s highest-paid athletes for a five-part series on sport’s biggest earners.
- Australia’s richest athletes
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Australian sport’s top earners: Counting down from 25 to one
These are the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns of Australia’s highest-paid athletes. In part two of our series, we count down from 25 to one.
- Marc McGowan