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NRL: Can retiring Queensland captain Darren Lockyer go out the same way the king Wally Lewis did 20 years ago? (Fox Sports)

Queensland won the 1991 State of Origin decider in Brisbane.

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NRL: Matt King to play for South Sydney in 2012, he was the player on screen in my Andrew Johns and Wizard Home Loans message 3 days ago.

How quickly life can turn around, in an instant. Creed

When those words are sung, two images of Wizard appear. Falling into working with Wizard Home Loans when I was 20 was one of the best things that ever happened to me, none of this would exist if that hadn't happened.

Here's why, if I didn't start with Wizard when I did (September 2001) I wouldn't have bought my first home when I was 20, and if I hadn't bought that property I wouldn't have been able to give myself the required time it took for the Improvement After Movement message to come to mind, 18 months and over $100,000.

Thank-you Mark Bouris, and everyone else involved in making that possible.

Tennis: Novak Djokovic might be the world No.2 but Aussie sensation Bernard Tomic is bursting with desire to beat his great mate tonight for a place in the Wimbledon semi finals. (Herald Sun)

 

 

Celebrated model Megan Gale, new host of Project Runway Australia. (Herald Sun)

Come on up for the rising. Bruce Springsteen (YouTube)

Tennis: For me, he still remains a great champion, always will be. Roger Federer talking about Lleyton Hewitt. (ABC News)

Lleyton Hewitt holding up the 2002 Wimbledon trophy.

Tennis: 18 year old Bernard Tomic's Wimbledon dream continued last night as the youngest player in the tournament advanced through to the quarter finals with a straight sets win. (Herald Sun)

AFL: Two-time Brownlow Medalist Greg 'Diesel' Williams talking to Mike Sheahan. (Fox Sports)

Greg Williams was me and my dad's favourite player, I used to go down the back paddock after watching Carlton play on tv and act like I was him, I'd try and do those long sweeping hand balls, kick goals through 4 gum trees that made the shape of AFL posts on our property.

I'd always wait til the channel 7 coverage was over though, just to listen to that closing song, it used to inspire me. I'd watch the post match comments, check out the ladder, it was usually the very last thing they'd show before the closing song came on.

One advantage to watching AFL games on tv on the Gold Coast back in those days was the games were played live, so there was always an hour or so of sunlight to kick my football around, another good thing for Victorian kids with the new tv rights kicking off next year.

I saw Greg Williams at the Gold Coast Turf Club on Melbourne Cup Day when I was about 18, was going to go ask for his autograph but didn't.

 

NRL: A rare smile there from Wayne Bennett. Ryan Phelan (Fox Sports)

St George-Illawarra coach Wayne Bennett and stand-in captain Nathan Fien, at the end of tonight's Monday Night Football post-match press conference, the last game of Women in League week for 2011, where the NRL celebrates the work women do in rugby league.

The humble tracksuit has been given a glamorous makeover by Australia's leading fashion designers and their work will be auctioned for children's charity TLC For Kids. (Herald Sun)

Collingwood footballer Scott Pendlebury and his girlfriend, model Alex Davis, got into the spirit of casual fashion and dressed down for Tracky Dack Day.

NRL: At home, their brilliance goes to another level and the success rate is 90%, with 52 wins from 58 games. (Herald Sun)

Melbourne Storm players Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater.

 

NRL: And here's the coach Johnny Lang, you reckon the rain makes the coaches go mad? Andrew Johns (Channel 9)

South Sydney coach John Lang dived into a puddle of water in Perth on Friday night after his boys beat Brisbane.