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9 August, 2016. 14:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Australia's first Olympic gold medallist of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Mack Horton has felt the wrath of Chinese swimming fans today, after his well publicised sledging of Chinese rival, Sun Yang. Prior to the race, Horton called Yang a “drug cheat” for testing positive to a banned substance in 2014, for which he...

8 August, 2016. 11:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The newly-crowned 'bad boy' of Australian swimming, Mack Horton, has today been photographed taking part in a wild rooftop party in the favela slums of Rio De Janeiro. Not even an entire day after picking up Australia's first gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle, Horton has taken a break from calling...

6 August, 2016. 16:03 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact WHEN THE OFFER FIRST CAME across coach Darren Lehmann's desk, he laughed and said it might teach them a thing or two about the golden rule of cricket. Following their day-four-English-style batting collapse yesterday in Galle, the Australian cricket team was offered the changed to star in an upcoming advertising campaign for...

4 August, 2016. 16:45 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact SPORTS JOURNALISM IS THE NEW mining engineering - that's the message from news media outlets around the country as the scramble to recruit enough staff to cover the return of Jarryd Hayne to rugby league football. Riding the high and beautiful wave of the boom is Fox Sports News, who've recently announced they've...

3 August, 2016 10:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT As of today, former NFL running back and Parramatta Eels icon, Jarryd Hayne, has reportedly signed a shock two-year deal with the Gold Coast Titans. The new contract makes Hayne the biggest star to ever play for the Titans. According to reports, Hayne has signed a multi-million dollar deal with the Titans to make him the highest...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact DESPITE RETIRING A DECADE AGO, highlights of the on-field exploits of Australia's original golden boy are now being used to cure erectile dysfunction in selected clinics. The controversial programme is being rolled out across the country after medical trials far exceeded expectations. The relationship between watching Shane Warne pitch it up against England and NRBs, or...

26 July, 2016. 10:56 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact IN LIGHT OF RECENT SECURITY concerns ahead of the Rio Olympic Games, Australian Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller has unveiled the self-loading rifles that each of our Olympic heroes will be required to carry at all times when outside the athletes' village. After a Kiwi olympian was robbed at gunpoint over the...

25 July, 2016 16:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local Sharkies die-hard and lead instigator in the 2005 Cronulla Riots, Sharryd Clayne, says life couldn't be any better down in The Shire. "Mate, we've got Pauline in the Senate, Trump in the White House and fifteen on the fuckin' trot" roars the 25-year-old brickies labourer between sips from his 600ml Monster Energy drink. "I've been...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A FOX SPORTS SOUND recordist's world has come crashing down around him this morning after learning that he's not fucking transparent and people can't see through him. Despite feeling invisible throughout high school and university, Michael Poon was able to keep his job after the sports network axed 4700 employees after Jarryd Hayne got dropped...

25 July, 2016 10:45 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT IN THE NRL, Wests Tigers executives have today announced they will meet to discuss Robbie Farah’s strident criticism of the club this week as the ongoing feud between coach Jason Taylor and out-of-favour hooker and on-again-off-again team captain Robbie Farah heats up. After the Farah-less Tigers defeated St George Illawarra on Sunday in round 20 of the NRL,...