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Well, sometimes there’s eye-gouging too

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

From Radio NZ this morning:  The National Rugby League has plunged to an embarrassing low with the Sydney Roosters fined $50,000 and their Queensland State of Origin star Nate Miles suspended for six games for defecating in the corridor of a central coast hotel naked and in a drunken stupor. That’s sport.

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