By Afp Published: 15:45 +10:00, 4 July 2017 | Updated: 15:45 +10:00, 4 July 2017 e-mail Ma Long is one of three top Chinese table tennis players to revolt against the country’s sports establishment after the removal of head coach Liu Guoliang China’s table tennis stars usually demolish their rivals but they may be fighting…
By Kai Sedgwick, ContributorPublished: June 26, 2017 12:24 EST | Updated: June 26, 2017 12:24 EST Share this: Man arrested in Queensland allegedly caught with cash and casino chips Case reportedly involves former mayor, and up to $5 million in gambling debt It has been reported by the Brisbane Times that police in…
AN IPSWICH mum admitted to a colleague she was systematically stealing thousands from her Riverlink employer to pay a gambling debt. Kelly Anne Mackney told a person she worked with she was “constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul” before she was caught for stealing $4669 from the Ipswich Riverlink Rivers store. Mackney didn’t deposit money…
Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport. Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite…
Phil Mickelson has long been known as golf’s consummate escape artist. His signature flop shot has turned innumerable misdirected approaches into tap-in pars. When his drive on the 13th hole at Augusta National in the final round of the 2010 Masters settled on pine straw, Mickelson fired a 6-iron between two trees and onto the…
Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport. Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite…
Double Olympic table tennis champion Kong Linghui (right in the picture) was suspended as head of the Chinese women’s team on Tuesday, the country’s sports association said on its website, after it emerged that he faced a lawsuit over a gambling debt. Kong, who won gold at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Games, was reported…
A “greedy” ex-footballer stole more than £15,000 from a Cardiff high school to pay off hefty gambling debts after losing his career earnings, a court heard. Cortez Belle, 33, who has played for teams including Port Talbot Town, Carmarthen and Merthyr, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by abuse of position and one…
A FORMER Newport County AFC player who admitted defrauding the school he worked at of more than £15,000 to pay off gambling debts has been branded an “idiot” by a judge. Cortez Belle, who played for The Exiles in 2005, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court today, Thursday, after previously admitting two counts of fraud in…
A FORMER Newport County AFC player who admitted defrauding the school he worked at of more than £15,000 to pay off gambling debts has been branded an “idiot” by a judge. Cortez Belle, who played for The Exiles in 2005, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court today, Thursday, after previously admitting two counts of fraud in…