David Bryceson

Fiji have again struck form ahead of the Hong Kong Sevens and will be aiming to win their third successive Final when the action starts at the Hong Kong Stadium this weekend.

It doesn’t get any bigger than Hong Kong. The action is intense. The hits are big. The games are short. The running hard. Fiji is back again – of course – to defend their back-to-back titles. If the Hong Kong 7’s specialists can make it three in a row they will have won their 15th title here.

Hong Kong national cricket team’s ICC World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh did not get off to the promising start that was hoped for when they were defeated in the first two games of the series – snuffing out any expectation of joining the Super 10.

King’s Park will be a pressure-cooker as battle-hardened Hong Kong Cricket Club and Valley Rugby Football Club meet in the last match of the 2013-14 domestic rugby season.

She is Asia’s best tennis player ever; yet many are calling her acceptance the funniest Australian Open victory speech ever.

Guangzhou has replaced Hong Kong as the provincial leader of lawn bowls in China by taking their second national title for the year, sending shockwaves through the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association.

Hawthorn will need to continue with it’s precision foot-passing to pick their way through Fremantle’s manic defensive pressure when the two meet in this weekend’s 2013 Australian Football League Grand Final. Meanwhile, Fremantle will aim to sustain their four quarter intensity on the wider reaches of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The top four teams of the 23 Round Australian Football League home and away season—Hawthorn Hawks, Geelong Cats, Fremantle Dockers, Sydney Swans respectively—will play off in the Preliminary Finals this weekend.

Surprise results have changed the face of the Australian Football League’s final series, making this weekend’s matches all the more enticing.

Eight clubs will begin play-offs this week as the Australian Football League enters its 2013 Finals Series. Meanwhile Essendon admit their guilt and declare that they were not prepared to take a risk in court.