City-Country needs clubs’ support It’s great to see the first representative games of the season held over a stand-alone weekend, but the clubs have to fully support the City-Country match or it should be called off. Every year the argument comes up that it is no longer relevant because it doesn’t act as a real […]
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When Qantas dishes out some end-of-year gongs for customer service, CBD reckons one particular pilot deserves a medal – to add to an already impressive trophy cabinet. More than 400 passengers aboard QF9 to London via Dubai were at first impressed when their pilot informed them they were aboard the second-newest addition to the national
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While obsession with The Voice remains dangerously high, please tell me we’re running out of the vasaline-lensed pre-recorded interview moments with the judges. Poor old Seal, Delta, Joel and Ricky have said the same stuff at least 30 times, using slightly different phrasing. This week, Seal actually said, “when I say something, I have to
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Sale Sharks all but secured their Premiership survival with a bonus-point victory over Gloucester, with Dwayne Peel, Johnny Leota, Cameron Shepherd and Mark Cueto all scoring tries. SALE completed their Lazarus like comeback from the dead at a joyous Barton last night as they swept high flying Gloucester aside to all but secure their Premiership
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Rabbitohs forwards will overpower Storm After this weekend’s matches there will only be one team left with an undefeated record this season and I believe it will be South Sydney. Melbourne Storm heads north to take on the Rabbitohs in easily the match of the round and the season so far. Big matches are won
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Henriques made a 40-ball 44 and took two wickets in his first spell. From a personal perspective, it was a wonderful debut for Moises Henriques for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Pepsi IPL 2013, but from a team point of view, Bangalore were at the receiving end of a Super Over loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad
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HYDERABAD: In a game which went down to the wire, and into the Super Over, the first in the sixth edition of the league, Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by five runs in the T20 league at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal. In the Super Over, Cameron White and Thisara Perera took 20 runs off Vinay Kumar with White hitting two
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Fresh off the set of the cinematic adaptation of his international best-selling memoir, The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort is returning to Australia in May, for a four-city tour prior to the November release of his movie, which is being directed by Hollywood-legend, Martin Scorsese, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. “Working with DiCaprio and
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Obstruction rule had to change The most frustrating thing I’ve seen in the first four rounds of the season has been the new interpretation of the obstruction rule, where any contact made by a decoy runner with a defender was ruled to be a penalty. We have seen some absolutely ridiculous calls and the
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By Tony Squires If you’re Shirley Maclaine, the answer to Who Do You Think You Are? (SBS One, 7.30pm), would be an Egyptian princess, a medieval warrior and, in one past life, my current dog and I were well-to-do lovers. Tuesday’s return of this series doesn’t have to travel nearly so far to find an
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