
	Australia's Weekly Sports News Review


	Volume 1, Edition 8 - Monday, 22nd May 2000 - www.theskink.com


	Issue of The Week Q. Swimming's bodysuits: cheating?


	Commentary 'Dream Team' Announced for Olympics


	Sydney, Monday: After ratings back from Nine's coverage of the Australian Olympic Swimming Trials indicated viewers felt the event 'boring as shit' but tuned in to hear League caller Ray Warren going beserk ('go on Suzie my girl!'), publicists for the cross-channel Olympic coverage have announced a commentary 'Dream Team' to tap into the market for boofheaded, nationalistic, jingoistic, cringeworthy and embarrassing Aussie dickheadisms that are obviously such a big ratings winner. Richie Benaud announces the Olympic Commentary Dream Team…


	Motor racing caller Gary Wilkinson will head Seven's Olympic Commentary Team. Their Olympic experts will be out in Bathurst, covering the touring cars.


	A. What?


	Mystery Link: Boonfinger...


	Guest Columnists


	Special Report: If The Eagle Ever Landed


	Dougal Whitton - Principles of Rugby Tour Management: A Study in Violence and Ways To Achieve It Kiwi Tour Secrets from The Gigolo Warrior's Scribe Y.I.Orta on Liz Taylor's body parts Phil Johnstone definitely doesn't like Jason Little Wes 'Brigham' Clark, from Springfield, Virginia with his ingenious rugby 'MatchMeter'


	If the Seppo's brushed gridiron, basketball, baseball and bullshitting, what would a Rugby side look like filled with their stars from these sports. We had a lash at a US Eagles XV to take on the Wallabies.


	Go you good thing...great photo this. Computer Nerd Tip: If you right-click and Save as… you can have it.


	Never Do This in Togo


	LOME, May 15 (Reuters) - A court in Togo jailed the director of a newspaper for three months on Monday for wrongly reporting that the president's daughter had been killed in a road accident, court sources said. Continued...


	Monica Lewinsky, for no reason...but while we've got her, isn't she a classic American beauty: big head, big teeth, and big-arsed juicy red lips. What a gobsmacker.


	Before sanctions against Apartheid, before animal liberation, when sideburns were suave, there was the programme of the 1970 All Blacks Tour of South Africa. Have a go at the great white hunters with their bag of slaughtered springboks. Great stuff.


	Poms in street renaming drama


	Mungo Hall of Fame


	LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - It is not the sort of address most people would want but a group of English villagers has turned down a proposal to rename Cowshit Lane. Continued…


	It's the business end of the season for The Skink's Mungo Hall of Fame. In this the penultimate round of nominations see who's joined Crusher and the boys here...


	Crusher, the crazy man, is still holed up with a crossbow and brother Les in a Y2K bunker in the hills outside Temora.


	Journos Admit Secret Business

Sydney, Monday: A breakaway group of journalists from the sport section of Sydney's best-selling daily The Daily Telegraph have admitted that occasionally a story will be 'padded' with half-truths, gossip and non-substantiated claims in the hope of selling more newspapers.

The group also claimed that quotes attributed to a 'source' or an 'insider' were more often than not inventions of their own imaginations.

Stuart Littlemore, formerly of the ABC's media watchdog Media Watch, said "Told ya."


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	Frock Shock for Footy Show Jock


	Just how much does Footy Show host Paul 'Fatty' Vautin enjoy dressing like a woman? Check out the psychiatrists report here.


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