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GREG BOWMAN | Ball Sports | Contact As if today couldn't get any better for Dave Hatton, it just did. This morning, his love for his partner Michael was validated and accepted by the majority of his fellow Australians. Tonight, his second loves just qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Speaking to The Advocate moments after his head exploded with pure ecstasy and...

ORTIRA NIBEDA | Soccer | CONTACT Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak has dismissed rumours that it might be something other than that which it is, stating emphatically in a Fox Sports post-match interview that it is, in fact, what it is. "It is what it is," he said responding to a question about the poor state of the pitch in the Australia's World Cup qualifier...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Move over Andrew Bogut! There's a new sport young Australian men are streaming to their laptops and tablets at work now. Zac Willis, a popular and marginally successful local agency art director, says he agrees with the notion that streaming sport to a device while at work is fine - as long as it's basketball or association football. But today,...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Local lower-grade footy club legend, Mucka, has today had to come to terms with the fact he can't tackle for shit if it's with his left side. After years of hiding this ailment with with quick side steps and readjustments of position, Mucka was put in the spotlight at a recent Kangaroo Court sitting, where he was outed as...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The in-house punch-ons between Italian rugby league stars Shannon Wakeman and James Tedesco is believed to be directly related to comments made about Shannon's mother's cooking. Tedesco and the Huddersfield prop will front an Italian disciplinary hearing on Wednesday after being  involved in a fight at Pier Bar in Cairns following their 36-12 loss to Ireland at Barlow Park.  Wakeman...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | Contact Cooper Cronk sent the Rugby League rumour mill into overdrive last year when he announced he would leave the Melbourne Storm and has done so again by signing with Roosters. The move has set a fox amongst the chickens, or Roosters so to speak, with club veteran Mitchell Pearce reportedly on the way out the door. A number of...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A local lower-grade club cricketer has ambitiously asked a teammate that he does not really know that well if he would consider sharing his plastic protector box to cover his crotch while batting. The request was thrown out quite publicly to the back end of the batting order, as Sam (33) used his position of power as a...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Lebanon will make its second appearance at the Rugby League World Cup later this weekend - Their all-star side, known as the 'Cedars' will feature a number of experienced National Rugby League players, most of whom were born in Australia and don't carry citizenship anywhere else other than Australia. Through the rugby league's 'grandparent rule' any player can claim...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT The iconic Caxton Hotel in Brisbane's notorious contact-sport district has had to order an emergency truckload of Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2015, following the unprecedented Wallabies win over the All Blacks at Suncorp Stadium tonight. Australia has sent retiring hooker Stephen Moore out a winner after scoring three tries to two in a 23-18 victory over the All Blacks at Suncorp...

IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports | Contact "He's no Stephen Larkham or Matthew Burke but by Joh, that boy could kick," he said. Rod MacQueen looks down at his coffee and then blankly out the window of Nathan's Cafe in Betoota's fabled French Quarter district. Something is on his mind. "I think the biggest problem with the Wallabies right now is that none of the...