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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The 'staff writers' who don't like putting their names on the clickbait articles they write for Fox Sports are today salivating at the opportunity to combine two of their biggest non-stories of the year. The unconfirmed news that Mike Tyson is coming out of retirement has today merged with the pointless speculation surrounding NRL star Latrell Mitchell's match...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The National Basketball Association is being urged by both fans and non-fans to please re-implement the same dress code standards that once saw Michael Jordan wearing a skivvy with a blazer and beret in post-match press conferences. This follows the new Netflix isolation blockbuster "The Last Dance" - a new ESPN production that has introduced an entire generation...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Coach Stephen Kearney says dealing with the constant pestering from Federal MP Barnaby Joyce is just one of the many enormous challenges facing the Warriors during their "trailblazing" NRL quarantine in Tamworth. The New Zealand-based players awoke to their first full day of team isolation in Tamworth on Monday, where they will spend two weeks in lockdown after...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Former AFL player turned racist TV personality Sam Newman is reportedly still making noise down in Melbourne about not being able to play golf. With 20 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria overnight, including one confirmed case in a Melbourne primary school - it is believed that a ban of golf is the biggest issue faced by Victorians right...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact While droves of people are begging for an end to Coronavirus updates, one local graph lover is bucking the trend and actually dreading the day the spread of the virus is no longer covered 24/7 by the news. Pete Buchanin is what’s known as a graphodisiac, someone who gets aroused by graphs, and charts to a lesser extent. It’s...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is back from his deathbed and doing what he does best and feeling like a victim of the opinions of academics. Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr Annaliese van Diemen has come under pressure for a tweet on the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's arrival in Australia. Dr van Diemen, whose own name sounds a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A recent report by a hospitality industry body has found that the pure euphoria that will be triggered by our pubs re-opening is impossible to measure. With today's news that hotels and restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne could return to trade as soon as two weeks from now, guarded excitement has pinballed around both New South Wales and...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The Ruby Princess special inquiry has heard that the situation on sister ship Diamond Princess - quarantined in Japan in February due to a COVID-19 outbreak - had alerted crew to the risks of the virus. Close to 1000 cases of coronavirus have since been linked to the Ruby Princess, and over 21 deaths, making it the single...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | CONTACT Betoota Grove woman, Bindi Hansen (32) was at breaking point earlier today, after yet another isolation mood swing that she can't understand or explain. Like many Australians locked inside their homes as part of the COVID-19 pandemic social distancing measures, Bindi can go two to three days at a time thinking that she actually doesn't mind living in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local dad, Big John McMichael (55, Betoota City Limits) has today cracked. He's done what he never thought he'd do and picked up one of the controllers for his son's PlayBox or whatever it's bloody called. Even the new announcements to role back COVID-19 social distancing measures by both the QLD, WA and NSW state governments have done little to...