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31 August, 2015 11:30 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | Contact A MOSMAN ACCOUNTANT IS in Royal North Shore Hospital this afternoon after former Test cricketer Brett Lee grew tired of him getting edges, so he came around the wicket and dug them in short to finish the job. In what was supposed to be a jovial day's cricket to benefit many local charities, the fast...

29 August, 2015 17:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Notorious NRL and Super Rugby player agent, Khoder Nasser has today confirmed that his client Quade Cooper has put ink to paper as the official 'life-saver' signing at Queensland Reds... For the next three seasons. The announcement has resulted in a huge exhale for both the club and fans, who are sick and tired of their post...

28 August, 2016. 14:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact THE SOURDOUGH HAS never tasted so sour. The wage-earning coffee professional who tried in vain to smash an unripe and out-of-season avocado on it has only done a slightly better job than what Alasdair Davis-Whitney reckons the Wallabies did last night in Wellington. "Sometimes, I don't know why I waste my frequent flyer...

24 August, 2o16. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WALLABIES COACH MICHAEL CHEIKA HAS reached out to greyhound trainers, who had their fate sealed this morning by the New South Wales Legislative Council, to 'blood' his team ahead next month's Bledisloe showdown. After capturing a live New Zealander, local greyhound trainer Glenn Monkton arrived this afternoon in Sydney with an idea in...

22 August, 2016. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE BEING ELECTRIC ON Sunday afternoon, finding intercepts and chipping over the defensive line, 27-year-old technology consultant Brett Sookman feels 70 today after a weekend game of touch footy. With adrenaline still coursing through his veins after UFC202, Sookman and a dozen other friends grabbed the footy and headed to their local park...

22 August, 2016. 10:23 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE LEAVING NEW ZEALAND AT age 10, Dennis Copeland's love for the All Blacks has never died. Most of his colleagues at the small East Brisbane boutique accounting firm where he works simply tolerate him. When he became a vegan for ethical reasons two years ago, his boss tried to fire him. Every...

21 August, 2016. 11:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact BLESSED WITH THE ABILITY to roll a Turf King out of the back of his hand, using his ring finger to get some ungodly purchase on the ball, Mick Crichton says that while he enjoys being part of the wider AIS community - deep down he just wants to tour the...

20 August, 2016. 12:34 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact MICHAEL CHEIKA HAS URGED HIS men to fight like they're the third chimp on the ramp to Noah's Ark tonight as the look to start their Bledisloe campaign on the right foot. But for one Sydney private schoolboy, he started his big day of sinking cold tins and spinning yarns with the...

19 March, 2016. 13:15 MERV HARRIS | Brown Snake Correspondent | CONTACT The recipient of the next statue to be erected outside Lang Park was revealed this morning at a QRL breakfast: a much anticipated bronze idol of the headgear worn by arguably the greatest rugby league player of his generation, the great Steve ‘The Pearl’ Renouf. “We are exceptionally pleased to announce that...

17 August, 2016. 09:35 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Editor | Contact Caroline Springs resident, Alf Garnett, is predicting big things for Sydney Swan's Sudanese born recruit Aliir Aliir, after a recent eye catching display in the Swans defence. According to Alf, Aliir Aliir has 'got the skills and looks like he could have a long future in the game." "He reminds me heaps...