Sports

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT RA Chairman Hamish McLennan and several Wallabies selectors have been praised today for stepping outside of their comfort zone and visiting a public high school over the weekend, for the first time in the history of Australian Rugby Union. The ground-breaking milestone comes after the Australian side was sent home 2023 French Rugby World Cup in the group stages -...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Australian rugby union is no longer a sleeping giant, or even an underdog, as Wallabies fans now find themselves playing the role of the wobbly lamb. This follows a whirlwind 6 months that saw Rugby Australia sack the last coach for his inability to improve on the results that saw the coach before him sacked, and the coach before...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACT Canteen lady, Vicky D'antonio (61) is renowned within the community for her decades of hooligan-like loyalty to the local soccer club - despite her youngest son not playing competitively for the side for over 15 years.  Vicky began volunteering at the Betoota Stallions when her eldest signed up to under 8s soccer in the late 1990s. Loved by all families...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Nearly a billion viewers have tuned in to watch a new Netflix documentary that tells the story of an attractive cockney lad from London's East End, who was good at what the English call 'football' and then went on to marry an equally - if not more attractive - woman who was good at singing. The number 1 Netflix...

JASON BARRY | Victorian Leg Tennis | Contact In the weird, oft-forgotten fringe community of local Betootanese boys who actually enjoy playing Victorian Leg Tennis, a spectacular mark has ended in embarrassment this afternoon. The mark in question occurred during the Greater Betoota and Diamantina Districts FNL preliminary final match between the Moonda Lakes-Diamantina Sculpins and the Lake Betoota Mullets. The mark, one that could only...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A chilling silence has set in across Queensland this Monday, as the people of Australia's most unrefined state lick their wounds following a disastrous weekend of sport. Usually content to do their own thing, providing they have sporting superiority to wave in the face of the Southerners, it appears that Queenslanders might now have to make things difficult for...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT The birth rate in the fastest growing city in Australia is expected to launch into hyperdrive today as Brisvegas celebrates their momentous NRL grand final appearance. With the greater Brisbane area growing by 59,200 people in the last year, bean counters at the Australian Bureau of Statistics are predicting that the state may double, or even triple...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT The usually calming sounds of a milkshake machine is failing to cure the heartache of a suffering Brisbane Broncos fan this morning, as a local man comes to terms with his grand final loss. Terry Kilroy (48) from Enoggera has had a particularly tough 48 hours, having lived through the nightmare of coming so close to tasting...

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT As the fireworks, flares and the sounds of street bikes erupt across Western Sydney, it can be confirmed that Penrith is the greatest place in the world to be right now. With the party only just beginning in the suburban paradise as locals celebrate the impressive performance of their three time grand final champions, reports are coming...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact In the midst of the intense Victorian Rules Football Grand Final showdown between the Collingwood Magpies and the Brisbane Lions, dedicated Lions fan Mark Thompson found himself seeking solace elsewhere. Sensing his team's impending defeat, he made a surprising detour from the game's heart-pounding action, sending a message in his group chat: "Hey, is...