The Melbourne Cricket Ground is one of the most historical and famous sporting stadiums in the world. Check out a timeline of significant moments in the MCG's history:
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THE latest Socceroos squad has no Melbourne Victory players, but the club will be represented on World Cup duty next week.
THE Wallabies will wait an appeal today against Rocky Elsom's suspension before naming the team to take on South Africa on Saturday.
PHAR Lap's missing 1930 Melbourne Cup trophy, one of Australian sport's holy grails, has been found.
THE new Gold Coast club will have the first three picks in the 2010 national draft among nine first-round selections.
EMBATTLED Cronulla is today bracing itself to lose a sponsorship deal worth up to $1 million as a result of Greg Bird's arrest at the weekend.
AUSTRALIA'S preparations to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in October may have hit a snag, with India unlikely to schedule an extra warm-up match.
CHAMPION apprentice Sebastian Murphy's return to riding has been delayed indefinitely.
THE Olympic Games are over and it's time for Nick Ward to move on.
IT'S evolved into a given in rugby league that as each year passes, the game becomes younger.
A TRAFFIC jam of entries for the Memsie Stakes and a bewildering rail placement and field limit could throw Playwright's Cups and Cox Plate campaign into disarray.