Sports

23 February, 2015. 14:15 Jaco Van Der Merwe | Sports Writer | Contact In light of the recent drug-trafficking charges faced by high-profile NRL stars, Greg Bird, Dave Taylor, Beau Falloon, Jaime Dolwing, Matt Sears and Jason Smith in South East Queensland - The Arthur Gorrie Correctional Center have formally applied for a QRL License to play in this years Intrust Super Cup also...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | CONTACT A SMALL TOWN junior rugby league club in western NSW has outlawed an "anti-social" hairstyle after police established a link between the haircut and repeated violence at matches. At 7:45 pm (AEST) last night, a brawl broke out during a friendly training match between North and South Cowra - which police allege was instigated by a 44-year-old...

2 February, 2015. 13:10 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact #SUPERBOWLMONDAY is the hashtag littering the newsfeed of Australian social media users today, an Australian take on the annual celebrations throughout America. Pubs and living rooms across the country play host to a vast number of "sports-mad" Australian men, who have tuned into to the live broadcast of the American Football spectacular. The...

31 January, 2015. 15:30 JACO VAN DER MERWE | Cricket | Contact IN SHOCKING NEWS: Australian football coach, Ange Postecoglou has been potentially banned from tonight's Asian Cup Final after launching a stunning verbal assault on a well-known sports Journalist. It is believed that governing bodies have banished Postecoglou along with Assistant coach Aurelio Vidmar from the sideline of tonight's Final in Sydney after...

29 January, 2015. 15:30 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact Brad Hogg turns 44 in one week. Last night he claimed the silverware back to back for his new home at the "Perth Scorchers" in the explosive Big Bash League final against Brett Lee's Sydney 6ers... and he's not done yet. Hoggy wants to play right through his forties - and no one...

28 January, 2015. 19:30 JACO VAN DER MERWE | Cricket | Contact Australian Supporters group, FANATICS have been left completely red-faced after showing their support for the wrong person at the Australian Open. The FANATICS, who are well known throughout Australian sport, stumbled across a match where they were meant to get behind Aussie, Jordan Thompson. Instead, the FANATICS were left cheering for 55th ranked...

27 January, 2015. 15:30 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | CONTACT A DAZZLING array of skills. A stunning vocabulary of curse words. The shittest haircut in the world. This is the new face of Australian Tennis The world’s tennis media is fascinated with Nick Kyrgios and his charge into the Australian Open quarter-finals. Nick McCarvel, writing for USA Today, said succinctly: “Australia has a new...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australia's mens cricket side have been today advised to follow the lead of less-self-important Australian athletes and get a second job, that's if they want to be on the same pay grade as Australia's highest paid cricketer, Ellyse Perry. The Australian mens cricketers will boycott an Australia A tour of South Africa unless Cricket Australia...

21 January, 2015. 12:30 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact It's a decision that has been dubbed "Outrageous" by former great Brian Lara: The Indian-dominated International Cricket Committee (ICC) has ruled that the international cricketing side known as the West Indies will now be referred to as "The Caribbean" for the upcoming ICC World Cup. In a shock move, the governing body deemed...

2o January, 2015. 11:30 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact Explosive Australian opener David Warner on Monday defended a heated on-field exchange with Indian batsman Rohit Sharma in which he demanded the Indian cricketer "speak English" Warner said the verbal exchange at a one-day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday earned him a fine of 50 percent of his match...