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WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT With a couple of weeks left of the 2021 NRL season, the writing is now crystal clear on the wall for the Wests Tigers. Win and a few results must go their way if they want to finish one spot outside the 8 again. "We know what we have to do, and we are going to do everything...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Territory chief minister Michael Gunner has playfully joked that it'd be so crazy if we played the whole Ashes Series in the NT while the rest of the country burns or is simply too isolated to enjoy themselves. Mr Gunner said he spoke to Senator Richard Colbeck, a Tasmanian senator, about having the nation's favourite...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT As Greater Sydney enters week eight of lockdown with case numbers only roaring, restriction have since been extended to the entire state over the weekend. This has been a sobering 24 hours for the people of New South Wales, who are now realising that this public health crisis might be around for a lot longer than they initially...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact The cricketing world is reeling today from shocking developments overnight that the British sports media didn't blow allegations of ball-tampering out of proportion and reduce their captain to tears. Yesterday during the Test Match against India at Lords, English quick-bowler Mark Wood allegedly try kick the ball through the legs of his teammate Rory Burns,...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT If Scotty From Marketing thought there wouldn't be repercussions for relocating all of the jabs from Newcastle to Sydney while the Hunter Region was locked down, he was wrong. This comes as the Newcastle Knights, dressed in their heritage hi-vis jerseys, snatch a finals appearance from the hands of the Cronulla Sharks with a 16-14 win at Redcliffe...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT Maroubra woman, Mary Macey (33) has today returned to reality, after a glorious fortnight of finding herself heavily emotionally invested in different sporting events that she only thinks about every 4 years. As a locked down hairdresser, currently living off the pitiful disaster payments that her accountant has taken two weeks trying to figure out, the embattled young...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy will hit the podium with a silver after a world class run through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that sadly came to an end moments ago. Our Australians just missed out on winning gold in the beach volleyball final to America’s April Ross and Alix Klineman this afternoon. Despite the result, Mariafe and...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact A local man is currently re-living the glory days all over again.  With the Games in Tokyo coming to its conclusion, Ryan Phillips says it’s been a good couple of weeks of reminiscing about the time when the world was at his feet.  Inspired by the likes of Brandon Starc, Peter Bol, Rohan ‘The Flying Mullet Browning, the former regional...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Australia has gone bang-bang this afternoon, with a quickfire double gold medal run in Tokyo. Following Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen's win in the blood pumping K2 1000-metre sprint, a young long-haired fella from the Goldie has taken our Gold Medal tally to 17. This comes after it was confirmed that a young 18-year-old named Keegs...

CLANCY OVERELL  | Editor | CONTACT Australian canoeing guns Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen have managed to hold on to win gold medal in the exhilarating K2 1000-metre sprint at the Tokyo Olympics. After taking a strong lead at the start, the boys were neck and neck with the Czech Republic and Germany for the final 400. The Austalians had a time of...