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Monday, March 30, 2015

Oval office: Billy Slater’s interview has a sting in its tail while Dayne Zorko gets cheeky on Twitter


BEELINE FOR BILLY
BILLY Slater has been in the wars during summer with shoulder, elbow and eye surgery. Now he is in more pain – from a bee.
Slater was on his couch watching the Australia-India World Cup cricket semi-final last week when the bee made its move, just as he was doing a phone interview with The Courier-Mail’s Peter Badel.


“My daughter got stung the day before and asked me not to kill the bee, so I took it into the backyard,” Slater said. “Now I’ve been stung. My girl must be a conservationist ... I reckon she’s the next Bindi Irwin!”
DAKS FOR THE MEMORIES

BRISBANE Lions vice-captain Dayne Zorko has been attracting plenty of pre-season attention.
It might have something to do with his modelling work for an underwear line called Comfyballs. Zorko has been happily tweeting selfies in the comfy daks which come with the marketing slogan “Because your balls deserve better!’’.
We hear Zorko’s teammates have slapped him with record financial fines, to go towards the Lions’ end of season trip.

INSIDE RUNNING

THE Broncos have gone global with their TV show Broncos Insider picked up by free-view channel Premier Sports in England.
It has screened the first two episodes and plans to run the rest weekly.
It’s a major coup for the Broncos, considering Premier Sports is available in 11 million homes in England, and comes off the back of the Broncos’ win over Wigan in the World Club series in February.
The Broncos now have 8000 Facebook fans in England — so the decision to play the exhibition tournament is paying off.
MAROONS ON BOARD
THE Queensland Maroons selection panel has been re-elected and has started to plot revenge for last year’s defeat by the Blues.
Long-serving chairman Des Morris is back, along with Gene Miles, Allan Smith and Darren Lockyer. “We got a letter the other day from the QRL so we are back on board,” Morris said.

HE’S BEHIND YOU

SHANE Webcke played alongside Corey Parker at the Broncos but it is fair to say they didn’t get on like a house on fire.
So some of Webcke’s Channel Seven colleagues decided to take the mickey out of him when The Courier-Mail recently produced Corey Parker masks to celebrate Parker’s 300th NRL game.
While Webcke was on air reading the sports news, the Seven crew snuck out to tape a Corey Parker mask to the back window of his car. They thought he would notice the prank immediately and return with smoke billowing out of his ears.
But the big fella had other things on his mind and didn’t notice the mask giving him a stare until he was almost home.

BIG GUNS RETURN

THE Brisbane Hockey League has been given a boost by an influx of former Kookaburras to its coaching ranks.
Seven of the 10 clubs contesting this competition feature former national representatives, including three-time Olympians Liam de Young (Pine Rivers) and Lee Bodimeade (Valleys).
Jason Wilson has replaced Brent Livermore at Labrador. The others are Troy Elder (Bulimba), Matthew Smith (Kedron Wavell), Greg Browning (University of Queensland) and Peter Shaw (Easts).
The seven have a combined 1245 international games for Australia.


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