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Robert CraddockSenior sports journalist

Robert ‘Crash’ Craddock is regarded as one of Queensland’s best authorities on sport. ‘Crash’ is a senior sport journalist and columnist for The Courier-Mail and CODE Sports, and can be seen on Fox Cricket.

Robert Craddock

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Olympics

Medical marvel hitting targets on way to Rio

PAUL Adams embarked on a new career as a registered nurse at the start of the year – the same year he will represent Australia in skeet shooting in Rio.

Eels

‘Parra can still win but the board must go’

RAY Price, one of the stars of the last premiership-winning Eels team, tells ROBERT CRADDOCK cheaters always get caught and why he still hates to lose.

NRL

NRL CEO David Gallop holds a press conference at NRL headquarters at Moore Park, Sydney to announce that the Melbourne Storm have been stripped of their 2007 and 2009 premierships and have had all their competition points for the 2010 season docked, and will have to pay 1.6 million after being found guilty of salary cap rorting.

Dodgy cap deals have long been par for the course

CLUBS have cheated the salary cap before, from huge golf day bets to home renovations where the bills just disappear, the Eels saga is nothing new.

Cricket

David Warner's bat and the bat Barry Richards scored 356 in 372 minutes including 325 in a day against a WA attack that included Dennis Lillee and Graham McKenzie.The bat is now on permanent display in the Sheffield Room of the Adelaide Oval with other historical bats and memorabilia.

Great’s warning to current Proteas squad

BARRY Richards faced the first ever cricket ball under lights and the South African great has urged the current squad to think pink or suffer the consequences.

Cricket

Gabba faces real test in first day-nighter

BRISBANE’s first day-night Test will be announced on Wednesday. but of even greater significance will be the unspoken message that comes with it.

Horse Racing

Flemington races looking for pics of the

From Caviar, the Queen to a swag on the Downs

ROYAL Ascot is a world away from sleeping rough on the Darling Downs… so just how has life changed for colourful Queensland horse trainer Peter Moody?

Cricket

Aussie players to blame for pink stink?

AUSTRALIA’S cricketers may have contributed to South Africa’s growing opposition to day-night Tests after several batsmen relayed twilight fears to their rivals.

Women's sport

****CHECK WITH BRIS SPORT DESK BEFORE RUNNING****Australia has announced it's Olympic kayak team for Rio. Alyssa Bull and Alyce Burnett are off to Brazil. Pic by Luke Marsden.

Bittersweet Rio tickets for kayak underdogs

HAVING a hero is part of sport. Having to beat them is another thing altogether. This was the dilemma facing kayaking duo Alyssa Bull and Alyce Burnett.

Other Sports

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 08: Grant Hackett of Australia reacts after racing in the Men's 200 Metre Freestyle during day two of the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships at the South Australia Aquatic Centre on April 8, 2016 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Hackett’s road to destruction

GRANT Hackett had it all. Million dollar smile, pop star wife and talent to burn. Then came the fall from which he has never recovered, writes Robert Craddock.

Rugby

QLD Reds vs the Highlanders, at Suncorp Stadium. Nick Frisby slips in for a try. Pic Jono Searle.

Is Super Rugby really working for Australia?

TALK about getting our hopes up! Just as the Reds pulled off a magic act at Suncorp Stadium, they will produce a disappearing act just as quickly.

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