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The Magpies dealt a bitter injury blow; son of a gun no guarantees to return this week for Blues

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Adams will be assessed further in the coming weeks, but the influential clearance bulls will be watching from the sidelines for the remainder of the home and away campaign. Howe spent the last half of the final season against Port Adelaide on the bench after suffering a knee to the back but coach Craig McRae said after the game that the 32-year-old had not sustained a significant injury. Elsewhere, Richmond’s thrilling comeback win over Brisbane on Sunday was marred by a suspected hamstring injury by captain Dylan Grimes, which the player himself was not optimistic about. “He [Grimes] seem to think it’s bad, so we’ll wait and see what it looks like,” said coach Damien Hardwick after the game. “That’s the challenging thing about AFL football, isn’t it? It was a tough match and the fighters lost – especially the brave ones like Dylan.” Richmond has expressed concern over Dylan Grimes’ hamstring injury. Credit: Getty Images Hardwick said he was concerned about the falling form, but the c

Ponga cries after the final blow to the head

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Confused Knights captain Kalyn Ponga feels like he has let his team-mates down after another concussion forced him off the pitch just eight minutes into Newcastle’s 42-12 loss to Sydney Roosters at McDonald Jones Stadium on Friday night. Ponga wept in the Newcastle dressing room after missing a head injury assessment – ​​his fifth HIA of the season – and suffered his third concussion in the last six weeks after being hit by a high tackle by Roosters supporter Matt Lodge. The Queensland winner tried to get inside Lodge in the eighth minute but Lodge’s left arm hit him in the jaw, then the back of his head hit the ground as he fell. “He’s upset right now. He wants to come back and do well at the club, especially after Origin, but we will go through this week-long process,” Knights coach Adam O’Brien told reporters at a post-match media conference. “He already has a partner [of these] but I’m more worried about how upset he is right now. He was quite emotional and he felt like he let ev

Court ruling deals a heavy blow to Wakefield Park's future - Speedcafe

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Wakefield Park Racecourse, in 2019 The court’s decision has jeopardized the future of Wakefield Park due to the imposition of strict noise limits in the future. Commissioner Tim Horton has now handed down his verdict following the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court proceedings held in March, when circuit owner Benalla Auto Club (officially, the BAC subsidiary that owns the site, ‘BAC WMR Holdings Pty Ltd’ ) brought Goulburn local Mulwaree Council to court. While construction work has been approved, the new noise limit effectively limits Wakefield Park to race meetings for 30 days per year, a situation previously stated by circuit management would render operations unenforceable. Race meetings fall into the ‘Category Red’ event category, i.e. events with a noise level of 85 to 95 dB(A) LAeq 15 minutes (i.e. noise level in the frequency response of the human ear, averaged over a 15 minute period). However, it should be noted that for development approval purposes, ‘events’ are

When does the sun blow away the solar nebula?

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The story of the origin of our solar system is quite well known. It reads like this: The sun began as a protostar in the “solar nebula” more than 4.5 billion years ago. Over the course of several million years, the planets emerged from this nebula and disappeared. Of course, the devil is in the details. For example, how long exactly did the protoplanetary disk that gave birth to the planet last? A paper was recently submitted to Geophysical Research Journal take a closer look at the planet-born crèche. In particular, it shows how the magnetism of the meteorite helps tell the story. About That Solar Nebula About 5 billion years ago, the environment of our galaxy was a nebula made of hydrogen gas and some dust. It provided the seeds of what became our solar system. Somehow, this part of the molecular cloud started to clump together on its own. Perhaps a passing star sent shockwaves and ripples through the dust and caused it to compress. Or, maybe a nearby supernova did. What