Sports Organisations

Labor insists it will "negotiate a better deal" on Tasmania's contract with the AFL, believing a stadium cannot be built at Macquarie Point — but that comes as news to the AFL's boss.

With all eyes on the new Macquarie Point stadium, the future of Bellerive Oval in Hobart has been unclear. But Cricket Tasmania has been working in the background, and plans are afoot for a new home of cricket.

Father of four Blake Tisdell died after he collapsed during training. He was the second Aberglasslyn Ants player to die in eight months. 

Tasmania's national footy team will next month unveil its name, colours, logo, and memberships  but a global corporate behemoth is playing hardball over the rights to the state's famous mascot.

 Janet Ainscow lives next door to the stable of Tasmania's leading harness racing trainer. She's been speaking out about allegations of team driving at race meets, and the conditions horses are being kept in. It's taken years, but she now feels vindicated.

The Kyby Tigers in South Australia haven't won a premiership since 1974. But that could change with the arrival of two new recruits, including former Melbourne Demons captain Jack Trengove.

Only a few dozen footballers from across the country are selected in the AFL draft each year. For those who miss out, like Broken Hill's Jackson Savage, you can either give up or do everything you can to make that dream a reality.

Tasmania's leading greyhound trainer wins his appeal against a lifetime ban, with an appeals board ruling it cannot be ruled out that a person "motivated" by "strongly held" beliefs planted a marsupial tail in order to discredit him.

Built just after the start of World War I, this shed has seen a lot in its 109 years. But despite being deemed a "rare" and "significant" example of its kind, that may not be enough to save it from Hobart's planned AFL stadium.

The Rosny Parklands site, next to the Eastlands shopping centre, will host two MCG-sized ovals, an auditorium, indoor training area and swimming recovery facilities for a Tasmanian AFL team.

The man who used a metal bucket to attack Melbourne City goalkeeper Thomas Glover is spared jail and is instead sentenced to a community corrections order after an appeal.

Speedway motorcycle racing is huge in Europe these days, but did you know a town in the NSW Hunter is widely considered its birthplace? Exactly 100 years ago, on December 15, 1923, the first speedway meet was held at Maitland Showground.

Rebecca Evans has earned a formidable on-court reputation in powerchair football, but is the only woman on her team. And it highlights a much bigger problem.

Targa Australia has moved to postpone the Tasmanian leg of the rally for another 12 months, saying that staging the event would be an "unachievable task" in light of the safety changes which have to be implemented after recent event fatalities.

A leading greyhound trainer who was banned for life after a potential animal lure was found on his property denies knowledge of its existence at an appeals hearing, claiming it may have been planted by activists. 

The Pacific Games has been heralded as a "resounding triumph" for the Pacific region, but with ill Solomon Islanders treated in hospital car parks, some are asking, at what cost?

The Australian Netball Players Association criticises the sport's governing body for putting forward a half-measure in the bitter pay dispute, with Super Netball players entering a ninth week of unemployment.

A new four court basketball facility could become home to the Hobart Phoenix, if it can convince the state government and a fellow sporting organisation to get shovels in the ground.

A Tasmanian police officer who aired concerns about young harness racing employees' long work days was taken off the case after a phone call from the head of the state's peak racing body to a more senior police officer, an email chain reveals.

Outgoing Chairmain says football's place within Australia's sporting landscape has enormous potential. The departing leader sat down with ABC Sport's Tracey Holmes to discuss all things football.

Commonly known as the region's 'mini Olympics' a grand total of 24 nations, including Australia will compete over the next two weeks.

Works for the Olympics have already claimed a historic school in Brisbane. Now some residents in regional Queensland are anxious their beloved 123-year-old sports club is under threat.

Incoming West Coast CEO Don Pyke, who won two AFL flags as a player with the Eagles, says restoring the club's on-field performance across all of its sides is the most pressing issue he faces when he takes over in January.

For years, Tasmania's top-ranked greyhound trainer was on the RSPCA's radar, but inspectors could find no wrongdoing despite monthly visits to his facility. In the end, what brought him down was not how he treated his dogs, because he did so inside the law.

Tasracing's leading greyhound trainer of the year, Anthony Bullock, is handed a lifetime disqualification from the sport over the use of an animal part for baiting. Mr Bullock had denied the allegation.