The Australian Open tennis tournament moves closer, Australia's cricketers finish one challenge and move to another, the A-League provided plenty to talk about, and so did the latest action in Australia's summer of cycling.
We start with cricket.
Australia's men's team has finished off a three-nil clean sweep of Pakistan in their Test series, with a 220-run victory in Sydney.
Next up is a five-match one-day international series against Pakistan, but many eyes are already turning to their next Test match assignment: next month's tour of India.
Indian conditions haven't usually been kind to the Australians.
Australian captain Steve Smith says many of the team that succeeded against Pakistan will be called up to try and do the same in India but recognises what a challenge playing in India is.
"The core of this group will take part in India, and a few of us have been there before. It's a completely different place to play. Playing on those wickets (is) nothing like playing on wickets here in Australia. So, guys are going to have to be able to adapt."
In tennis, the Australian Open is now just a week away.
With the conclusion of tournaments in Brisbane and Perth, amongst other places, eyes this week primarily will turn to the Sydney International, as players make their last tune-ups before the year's first Grand Slam event.
But some of the world's best have started their preparations in Qatar - and what preparations they've been.
The man ranked number two in the world, Serb Novak Djokovic has beaten Britain's Andy Murray, ranked number one in the world, in the final of the Qatar event in a classic match that spanned the full allotment of three sets.
Djokovic says the match was valuable, as eyes begin to turn Down Under.
"I couldn't ask for a better start to the year, playing finals against Andy (Murray), who's number one in the world and has been in tremendous form and won almost 30 matches in a row. It's an unbelievable performance today from both of us. We pushed each other to the limit.
Sometimes in sport, you have to make the best of a bad situation.
That's the spot Melbourne City finds itself in at the moment in the A-League.
Dutchman John van't Schip was forced to quit as Melbourne City coach to return to his home country in order to care for his terminally-ill father.
Into van't Schip's place stepped assistant coach Michael Valkanis.
And in the first match in charge for the new coach, the team got its first win in the A-League since the 27th of November.
They beat the Western Sydney Wanderers, one goal to nil.
But Valkanis isn't getting carried away, leaning on the age-old sporting axiom of taking things just one match at a time.
"We want to be up the top (of the A-League ladder), but we're going to focus game-by-game. And to be quite honest, not even look at the ladder. Just (go) game-by-game."
And there's been a surprise -- in almost comical fashion, mind you -- at the Australian Road Cycling Championships.
Brendan Canty thought he'd won the 183 kilometre men's road race.
One problem, though: he still had one lap to go.
Team BMC rider Mike Scotson was the beneficiary of Canty's embarassing error.
He launched an attack with just under two kilometres to go -- and ended up being the real winner of the race.
He says he could scarcely believe what was happening.
"I left a gap around the corner, and then just wound out the gear for that descent, and then just tucked low, and then just sprinted home. It was so weird coming into the last (kilometre) ... it was like it wasn't real."
Canty ended up finishing seventh.
Katrin Garfoot beat defending champion and teammate Amanda Spratt to win the women's race.
