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CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC has this year revealed the introduction of a 3-on-3 event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic program - in an effort to give the games a more youthful and urban appeal. The 3-on-3 events are set to take place in downtown Tokyo, in a car park behind a popular dive bar. Australia says they are...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Bernard Tomic has today told the media that he is bored with the entire reason they know who he is, and couldn't care less about the pinnacle of his career as a tennis player. Tomic who made the headlines for his woeful 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 loss to German veteran Mischa Zverev - in what has been described as Australia's...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Following on from his iconic new appearance in Nike's first Australian-targeted ad campaign in ten years, Wests Tiger star James Tedesco has appeared on camera again dodging security staff in a public place. The original ad, which shows the NSW representative purposefully touch a priceless work of art, giving him no way but to dodge his way out of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Currently-unemployed-cricketer Steve Smith has been forced to return to his old job bowling big old leg breaks for Worcestershire in Northern England after the Cricket Australia pay dispute goes into extra time. The 28-year-old Sydneysider and former captain of the old Test side told The Advocate that while bowling isn't really doing wonders for his ageing...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT In a euphoric display of camaraderie, Brisbane boxer Jeff Horn was yesterday joined in the ring by other iconic Brown Snake residents, in his post win celebration against reigning WBO welterweight champion, Manny Pacquiao. The Southside Schoolteacher had everyone nervous after being punished in the 9th round by legendary Filipino in an epic bout at Suncorp Stadium - however...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The greatest spin bowler currently playing cricket in Australia has been spotted back at his old job cleaning windscreens in Canberra's north this morning as the ongoing pay dispute between Cricket Australia and the Players' Association continues to throw the sport into disarray. Nathan Lyon washed windscreens for loose change at the intersection of Mouat Street...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact World-conquering-batsman-turned-marginally-employed-dog-walker David Warner was spotting wrangling seven of celebrity publicist Roxy Jacenko's prized rescue greyhounds this morning in Bondi, in one of his first public appearances since being sacked from the Australia cricket side for 12 months. The fall-out from the Australian ball-tampering scandal saw Cricket Australia enter uncharted waters earlier this year, after appeasing...

,CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Visiting Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao has weighed in at 66.1kg at a pre-fight weigh-in this morning, while his opponent and Brisbane boy Jeff Horn tipped the scales at 66.3kg. Dubbed 'The Battle Of Brisbane' - schoolteacher Horn will be boxing in front on an international TV audience of nearly 1 billion people tomorrow - on top of...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The top dog of the nation's chief cricketing body has said he's prepared to put the pads on himself if it means getting a team together for the upcoming Australia A tour of South Africa. Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland made that shocking revelation at a Sydney press conference this morning as the June 3o...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Filipino-Australians living in Brisbane are really going hard on the whole Filipino thing ahead of this weekend's Manny Pacquiao match, it has been confirmed. Australians right around the country will be tuned in on Saturday night to watch Pacquiao, 38, is defending his WBO world welterweight championship against 29-year-old Aussie Jeff “Hornet” Horn at Suncorp Stadium. Dubbed 'The Battle...