The year will not end in the way in which Serena Williams might have hoped.
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Overnight sports wrap: Liverpool thrash Stoke to close gap on EPL leaders Chelsea
All the action you might have missed overnight.
Sydney to Hobart 2016: Perpetual Loyal wins in record time
Australian supermaxi Perpetual Loyal has won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in a blistering race record time.
Melbourne Cup winner Michelle Payne to make a call on her riding career
Rumours of her imminent retirement are expected to be scotched by history making jockey Michelle Payne later today when she holds a press conference announcing plans for the future development of her career.
Australia vs Pakistan Cricket Live: Second Test, day 3 at the MCG, Melbourne
Follow full live coverage of the third day of the second Test from the MCG.
Yeehaa: Daniel Ricciardo says USA is Formula One's new frontier
Formula one’s new era in the USA is something Daniel Ricciardo plans to embrace
Russian officials no longer dispute far-reaching Olympic doping operation
Russian officials are for the first time conceding one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation that implicated scores of Russian athletes, tainting not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but also the entire Olympic movement.
One of the great A-League games, but Melbourne City coach Van 't Schip not happy
Was this the greatest game in A-League history? With six goals, three penalties (two saved), red cards, frantic action and refereeing controversies, it has to be up there.
Reigning EPL champions Leicester City lose their way as Antonio Conte has Chelsea FC singing
This is the season of the lost and found. There is surely no precedent for the English champions sitting 16th in the table approaching the halfway point while the team who finished 10th last time were seven points clear after Boxing Day.
NBA wrap: Delly efforts fail to help Milwaukee Bucks hold off Washington Wizards
Australia’s Matthew Dellavedova dished out 11 assists, but his Milwaukee Bucks couldn’t hold on as they suffered a damaging 107-102 NBA loss to the Washington Wizards.

