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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