Titans financial woes get worse
Gold Coast Titans’ crippled financial state descended further into the abyss on Thursday after a team of NRL accountants unearthed millions of dollars of hidden debt in the embattled football club. While Titans boss Michael Searle has long been adamant the club’s difficulties are confined to the its property arm and its Centre of Excellence, … [Read the full story]
Tomic breaks the law on Australia Day…twice
Tennis star Bernard Tomic is considering whether to lay a complaint against Gold Coast police after being issued with two traffic infringement notices on Australia Day. A standoff with police unfolded at the Tomic family home in Southport with the 19-year-old refusing to come out and speak to officers. Police radio transmissions, broadcast on Channel … [Read the full story]
Big Bash League is going to get bigger
Gold Coast, Canberra, Newcastle and Geelong are all in the running to have a Big Bash League team as soon as next summer as the reinvigorated KFC T20 competition continues to explode. With ratings and crowds surging ahead of expectations, Cricket Australia has already started looking at further expansion years ahead of its original timetable. … [Read the full story]
Choking game kills teenager
Discovering their teenager dead in her bedroom is every parent’s worst nightmare. That is the tragedy which Francoise and Michael Corthals had to face on October 3 when they found the body of their beautiful daughter, Abigail. The bright, creative 15-year-old was the victim of a deadly “choking game” which is raising its ugly head … [Read the full story]
Tomic will be the next world tennis superstar
Australian great Roy Emerson has backed Gold Coast teenager Bernard Tomic to win the Australian Open by the time he turns 21. The ringing endorsement came as Emerson, who won the first of his six Australian Open titles 50 years ago, helped to launch next year’s tournament in Melbourne. “Don’t count him out, I think … [Read the full story]
Australia sets new bikini parade world record
A line of 357 women clad in bikinis and pink visors marched one mile down the beach in Gold Coast, Australia, to break the world record for biggest bikini parade. Officials from the Guinness Book of World Records monitored the event and confirmed that the Cayman Islands’ previous record of 331 in June 2010 had been broken. … [Read the full story]
Tigers must be stronger to secure 4th spot
The score at the moment is 18-20 in the Tigers favour with half an hour left. Wests Tigers Head Coach Tim Sheens says his side must be stronger this week than it was in the win over the Gold Coast as the pressure to secure fourth spot intensifies. Sheens admits there is added pressure on … [Read the full story]
Michael Katsidis moves on after his brothers death
In the end, boxing champion Michael Katsidis only provided eight minutes or so of action in his long-awaited return to Australia. But no one was complaining after witnessing a rare sight following his brutal knockout win over Mexican junior welterweight Michael Lozada on the Gold Coast last week. That rarity was Katsidis smiling. Indeed few … [Read the full story]
Officials under-estimated surf that killed Saxon
Saxon Bird died because officials who upheld a risk-taking culture failed to gauge the danger of the surf at last year’s national surf life saving championships, a coroner has found. The young NSW lifesaver drowned after being hit by a stray surf ski during the championships at Kurrawa on the Gold Coast on March 19, … [Read the full story]
Brave Steph hungry to take on the world
Two weeks after she was viciously attacked outside her Tweed Heads apartment, world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore admits the emotional scars remain a work in progress. In the wake of her post-Christmas assault, she’s passed the festive season in a whirl of sleepless nights, nightmares and comfort slumber parties with her tight band of friends. … [Read the full story]
