Sports

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...

19 January, 2015. 15:37 IMRAN GASHKORI | Sports Journalist | Contact In the last few weeks we have seen a rise in the number of current, former and returning NRL players to be involved in the world of crime. Drug Trafficking (Former Players Jason Smith, Matt Seers), Drug Manufacturing (returning player, Danny Wicks) and Grievous Bodily Harm (Russel Packer, signed to St George while in...

17 January, 2015. 15:30 JACO VAN DER MERWE | Cricket | Contact The ICC has confirmed that England is under investigation and could risk disqualification from the upcoming World Cup after a dramatic change in the international qualification laws. The Betoota Advocate can exclusively report that the ICC are “sick and tired” of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) constantly “exploiting the rules”...