Sports

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACTIt’s all systems go at Kayo this morning, as Australia’s most reliable sports streaming service races to prepare for the footy season. While a crack team of grounds people put the finishing touches on the NRL field being installed at Allegiant Stadium in Vegas, back home it’s understood Kayo is struggling to get its network firing at...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The NRL has been dealt its first off-field scandal Las Vegas, as the second year of this highly risky overseas promotional experiment gets underway. The current arrangement between the NRL and the Nevada Tourism Board has locked in four years worth of Vegas Round, and to not have a scandal until the second year is very, very impressive work...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT A Gerringong man has been handed a gift from the gods this afternoon, after a random work trip to Wollongong. Popping into the Illawarra icon that is Chickos for lunch earlier today, Nathan Gardner was shocked to be handed a 3 year contract by a member of the local football team's staff. "Yeah I was just chatting to...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT The Betoota Mutts 2nd Grade coach has started the season with a bang this week! Rod Phillips (59) has done so by giving the 2nd graders a full noise training session to kick off the year. With the first trial less than 6 weeks away, Rodda means business. Treating the squad to his trademark fitness drills to begin...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A disposable office serf who dreamed of being on the Galle Fort wall, girt by ice-cold Lion Lager cans, watching Test cricket with two packets of duty-free smokes resting on his backpack, has a new dream. As the days are set to grow shorter and colder, he's returned to that dream world. This time,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Until now, the 2025 election has looked like it was going to be a tight race between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Liberal leader Peter Dutton. That was, until everyone went back to work and stopped watching summer cricket. And as Australians turn off Channel 7 for the rest of the year, the opinion poll numbers are shifting once again. Local...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The men and women at the coalface of the acute housing shortage in our great state have found themselves again in Las Vegas for their annual conference which, serendipitously, is on the day before the NRL Vegas Round to kick the season off. Many builders, tradespeople and industry workers simply cannot believe their luck that...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A local man who uses a computer to do things in exchange for money has dreamed a dream this afternoon. One where he's not in Betoota's bustling financial district, nor in the bohemian enclaves of the French Quarter. Or even on the trolleybus heading home to our town's burgeoning Betoota Heights sprawl. But one where he's...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Channel Seven is planning to do quite possibly the most Channel Seven thing ever this afternoon and force viewers of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle off the main channel to 7mate because it clashes with 'The Chase'. Which is understandable considering the programme is one of the highest-rating shows on national television...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The fall-out from the disrespect shown towards the fans of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, by Channel Nine's sports anchor Tony Jones, continues today. As the official broadcast partners for the Australian Open, both Nine and Jones had hoped that a simple apology would be enough, but it seems the Australian media has gravely underestimated the Serbian people's ability...