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  • Top radio star is slammed for his ‘disgusting’ reaction to Aussie men’s sport team performing a seemingly innocent dance before a match

    Top radio star is slammed for his ‘disgusting’ reaction to Aussie men’s sport team performing a seemingly innocent dance before a match

    • Ben Dobbin slammed the Aussie men’s netball team’s dance
    • Aussie side’s routine has divided sports fans across the internet

    By JAMES COONEY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

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    A Triple M radio host has been criticised for describing the recent viral dance performance from the Australian men’s netball team as ’embarrassing’ and ‘disgusting’.

    The Australian men’s netball team stunned viewers a week ago with the side’s pre-tournament dance performance on the opening day of the Fast5 series in Christchurch.

    The national team, known as the Kelpies, got the crowd on their feet before their first match with their dance routine to NSync’s Bye Bye Bye.

    The controversial routine has since gone viral, notching up millions of views online with fans divided over if they like it or not.

    One person who wasn’t impressed was Triple M host Ben Dobbin, who didn’t hold back on Brisbane drivetime show The Rush Hour last week.

    ‘I understand if you’re from New Zealand and you do the haka,’ Dobbin said

    Radio host Ben Dobbin (pictured) wasn't a fan of the Aussie men's netball team's lighthearted pre-match dance

    Radio host Ben Dobbin (pictured) wasn’t a fan of the Aussie men’s netball team’s lighthearted pre-match dance

    ‘I don’t understand if you’re Australian and whoever gave you the name the Kelpies …’

    Co-host Leisel Jones butted in: ‘It’s brilliantly, ironically Australian.’

    ‘Well I’m sorry, playing men’s netball isn’t iconically Australian,’ Dobbin said.

    ‘I’m being honest here. I’m appalled by this. These blokes, seriously, take a look at yourselves.

    ‘Male netball does not have a place for Backstreet Boys.’

    Co-host Liam Flanagan interjected: ‘To be clear, this is Triple M, not 4BC. What are you upset about? Men playing netball, or the dancing?’

    Dobbin replied: ‘Both. I’m more upset about the dancing. You’re representing our country and you’ve got Backstreet Boys doing this sort of hip hop dance before you go to represent our country.

    ‘I’m sorry. It’s a gimmick. They made the headlines but for all the wrong reasons.’

    The Kelpies went on to win the entire tournament, beating New Zealand 32-30 in the final

    The Kelpies went on to win the entire tournament, beating New Zealand 32-30 in the final

    Jones chimed in: ‘Should the Kelpies have gone to the Olympics instead of Raygun?’

    Dobbin wasn’t finished: ‘They’re of the same ilk. These blokes, they should be ashamed. And I mean that genuinely.’

    Flanagan said to Dobbin: ‘So, did you have a problem that the women did it? Every team was directed by the tournament organisers to perform before their first game of the tournament.’

    Dobbin replied: ‘Well, they’re not sheep, they don’t have to do that.’

    Flangan asked: ‘Don’t you think it would be poor form if the tournament is like, ‘Hey, this is like T20 cricket, we’re trying to build a fast-paced, exciting atmosphere’. The crowd lost their marbles over that.’

    Dobbin said: ‘Dance to Horses or Working Class Man, not the Backstreet Boys. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, this is disgusting. Mate, it’s embarrassing.

    ‘Daryl [Braithwaite] does it at every Cox Plate, there’s no dramas with that.’

     Dobbin has since been criticised for his remarks on social media.

    ‘Imagine being angry at people dancing and enjoying themselves,’ replied one social media user.

    ‘Oh no, young men are enjoying themselves,’ posted another.

    ‘Dancing is part of the tournament, you absolute pelican,’ commented a third.

    A fourth posted: ‘Sounds like this is disrupting someone’s long held beliefs of what it is to be a man. Grow up.’

    The Kelpies went on to win the whole tournament by beating New Zealand 32-30.

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  • Ronan Keating’s gig at the Melbourne Cup is brutally slammed as ‘desperate’ by underwhelmed Aussie fans

    Ronan Keating’s gig at the Melbourne Cup is brutally slammed as ‘desperate’ by underwhelmed Aussie fans

    Ronan Keating’s performance at the 2024 Melbourne Cup has been brutally slammed by underwhelmed Australian fans.

    The Boyzone singer, 47, took to the stage at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday to perform alongside singer Ricki-Lee Coulter ahead of the big Melbourne Cup race.

    He belted out his hit When You Say Nothing At All before New Zealander-Australian star Ricki-Lee, 38, joined him to sing Lovin’ Each Day.

    However, fans watching from home slammed the performance as ‘desperate’ as they took to social media to share their underwhelmed reactions to Ronan’s appearance.

    ‘How desperate is the #MelbourneCup2024 getting in Ronan Keating, was no one else available?’ one person wrote to X – formerly known as Twitter.

    ‘As an Irishman apologies to Melbourne for Ronan Keating making random noises. Ye’re welcome to keep him. We really don’t want him back,’ wrote another.

    ‘Ronan Keating is such random entertainment,’ another added.

    However others seemed to enjoy the performance as they defended him on social media.

    Ronan Keating’s performance at the 2024 Melbourne Cup has been brutally slammed by underwhelmed Australian fans 

    The Boyzone singer, 47, took to the stage at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday to perform alongside singer Ricki-Lee Coulter ahead of the big Melbourne Cup race

    The Boyzone singer, 47, took to the stage at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday to perform alongside singer Ricki-Lee Coulter ahead of the big Melbourne Cup race

    ‘Great performance from Ronan Keating and @TheRickiLee,’ one gushed.

    Ronan will take to the stage for a second time at the VRC Crown Oaks Club Lunch on November 6 and again as part of the Crown Oaks Day festivities on November 7. 

    Ronan’s appearance at the Melbourne Cup comes after he confirmed that he has moved to Australia with his family.

    The Irish singer said he and his Australian TV producer wife Storm have moved to Sydney with their kids Cooper, seven, and Coco, four.

    ‘We are in Sydney mainly and we will be here until next year,’ he told 9News.

    ‘We have re-evaluated life a little bit and the plan is to spend more time here in Australia and near family, we love being here.’

    The couple – who married in 2015 after meeting while the former Boyzone star was a judge on The X Factor in 2011 – wanted to give their children an ‘Aussie lifestyle’.

    He belted out his hit When You Say Nothing At All before New Zealander-Australian star Ricki-Lee, 38, joined him to sing Lovin' Each Day, but fans weren't impressed

    He belted out his hit When You Say Nothing At All before New Zealander-Australian star Ricki-Lee, 38, joined him to sing Lovin’ Each Day, but fans weren’t impressed

    Fans watching from home slammed the performance as 'desperate' as they took to social media to share their underwhelmed reactions to Ronan's appearance

    Fans watching from home slammed the performance as ‘desperate’ as they took to social media to share their underwhelmed reactions to Ronan’s appearance

    Ronan's appearance at the Melbourne Cup comes after he confirmed that he has moved to Australia with his family (pictured with his wife Storm)

    Ronan’s appearance at the Melbourne Cup comes after he confirmed that he has moved to Australia with his family (pictured with his wife Storm)

    The Irish singer said he and his Australian TV producer wife Storm have moved to Sydney with their kids Cooper, seven, and Coco, four

    The Irish singer said he and his Australian TV producer wife Storm have moved to Sydney with their kids Cooper, seven, and Coco, four

    Storm hails from Australia and grew up on a cattle station in Far North Queensland before moving to Los Angeles where she interned at HBO.

    ‘Storm and I, we generally love being in Australia, first-hand, but to be here this week and in particular in Melbourne and at the Melbourne Cup,’ he said.

    ‘It is very special, the effort everybody makes and the sheer beauty of this place. It is quite magnificent.’

    Ronan also shares three more adult children – Jack, 25, Missy, 23, and Ali, 18 – with his ex-wife Yvonne Connolly, who he was married to for 12 years.

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  • New Boston Women’s Soccer Team Slammed For Name, Rollout Centered On ‘Too Many Balls’

    New Boston Women’s Soccer Team Slammed For Name, Rollout Centered On ‘Too Many Balls’

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    The latest National Women’s Soccer League expansion team debuted in Boston Tuesday and faced a surge of criticism over its name, Bos Nation (“worst name possible,” complained one), and a campaign that jokingly tweaked the city’s history of famous sports teams by complaining it has “too many balls”—which was slammed as male-centered and possibly transphobic.

    Key Facts

    The new Boston-based team had its name revealed in an early CBS News report Monday and the choice, Bos Nation, an anagram of Bostonian, was immediately met with a negative reaction only compounded by the team’s official announcement and rollout video Tuesday.

    The one-minute video, shared across the team’s social media accounts, says Boston’s legacy is filled with “Trophies, banners, rings and balls. Old Balls. New Balls. Steel Balls. Cold Balls. Even Goat Balls,” a claim accompanied by a clip of former Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady, often called the Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.), saying “wait, what?”

    The video then goes on to say, “Maybe there are too many balls in this town,” and suggests a new NWSL team could “add a new chapter to our city’s legacy.”

    The website’s rollout was initially accompanied by the URL “toomanyballs.com,” which linked back to the official NWSL Boston website, but that domain appears to have been taken down, and a $35 T-shirt with the slogan “too many balls” has also been removed from the team’s online store.

    The announcement was criticized by fans on social media for its overall tone, but also caught the attention of professional athletes including non binary and transgender Seattle Reign player Quinn, who called it transphobic and said it “doesn’t represent the league and is such poor messaging.”

    Bos Nation controlling owner Jennifer Epstein told reporters the “whole intent behind the brand was to be inclusionary” and that the team takes the criticisms seriously.

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    Chief Critics

    Among those who slammed the rollout was NWSL Players Association director Meghann Burke, who told The Athletic she didn’t expect the team to be “so unserious.” “I’m holding out hope that this is an elaborate and ingenious joke and that the real team name and campaign telling us what they’re really about will be rolled out soon,” she said. Meg Linehan, who covers the National Women’s Soccer League for the outlet, called it “the worst NWSL launch I’ve ever seen in the history of the league,” adding, “the most insulting part is how much time they’ve had to release something this bad” (the team was officially announced more than a year ago). On social media, reactions from NWSL fans and players were swift and overwhelmingly negative. Racing Louisville FC player Bethany Balcer tweeted, “They’re gonna delete that video….right???” USA Today sports writer Meghan Hall posted, “Everything I have learned about Bos Nation feels like a giant misstep.” One user on X asked, “Why are we making our NWSL announcement about men?” and another said “If you hired me as a consultant tasked with coming up with the worst name possible for the Boston women’s soccer team I don’t think I’d even have the balls to submit BOS Nation as one of the options.” At the team’s launch party Tuesday, one person carried a cardboard sign reading, “No home for transphobia.”

    Key Background

    Boston had a professional women’s soccer team called the Boston Breakers from 2009 until the Women’s Professional Soccer league folded in early 2012. The Breakers then joined the NWSL and played from 2013 to 2017. It was announced in September 2023 that Boston would get a new NWSL team and earlier this year news broke that Utah and San Francisco would also be part of the league expansion to start in 2026. Bos Nation is owned by the all-female Boston Unity Soccer Partners group and investors include Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and actress Elizabeth Banks. It was reported the Boston franchise paid about $50 million in fees to the NWSL to join. The team will play home matches in White Stadium in Franklin Park, which will get millions in upgrades ahead of opening day. No logo has been revealed for the team, but its main color will be “Championship Green” with accents of “Relentless Raspberry, Loyal Charcoal, Daring Pink, Rise Yellow and Orange Press, which speak to the rich diversity of Boston’s neighborhoods and the team’s values and signal a new era in the city’s sports landscape.”

    Further Reading

    The AthleticLinehan: Boston NWSL club misses the mark with BOS Nation FC and marketing campaignForbesNWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman Talks About Growth In Women’s SoccerBy Brad Adgate
    ForbesHow The NWSL’s New Labor Deal Changes American SportsBy Howard MegdalForbesGotham FC To Be The First NWSL Team To Visit The White HouseBy Manasi Pathak

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  • A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

    A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash.

    The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. Launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral, it’s the second part of a planetary defense test that could one day help save the planet.

    The 2022 crash by NASA’s Dart spacecraft shortened Dimorphos’ orbit around its bigger companion, demonstrating that if a dangerous rock was headed our way, there’s a chance it could be knocked off course with enough advance notice.

    Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might be needed to safeguard Earth in the future.

    “The more detail we can glean the better as it may be important for planning a future deflection mission should one be needed,” University of Maryland astronomer Derek Richardson said before launch.

    Researchers want to know whether Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — left a crater or perhaps reshaped the 500-foot (150-meter) asteroid more dramatically. It looked something like a flying saucer before Dart’s blow and may now resemble a kidney bean, said Richardson, who took part in the Dart mission and is helping with Hera.

    Dart’s wallop sent rubble and even boulders flying off Dimorphos, providing an extra kick to the impact’s momentum. The debris trail extended thousands of miles (more than 10,000 kilometers) into space for months.

    Some boulders and other debris could still be hanging around the asteroid, posing a potential threat to Hera, said flight director Ignacio Tanco.

    “We don’t really know very well the environment in which we are going to operate,” said Tanco. “But that’s the whole point of the mission is to go there and find out.”

    European officials describe the $400 million (363 million euro) mission as a “crash scene investigation.”

    Hera “is going back to the crime site and getting all the scientific and technical information,” said project manager Ian Carnelli.

    Carrying a dozen science instruments, the small car-sized Hera will need to swing past Mars in 2025 for a gravity boost, before arriving at Dimorphos by the end of 2026. It’s a moonlet of Didymos, Greek for twin, a fast-spinning asteroid that’s five times bigger. At that time, the asteroids will be 120 million miles (195 million kilometers) from Earth.

    Controlled by a flight team in Darmstadt, Germany, Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles (30 kilometers) all the way down to a half-mile (1 kilometer). The spacecraft will survey the moonlet for at least six months to ascertain its mass, shape and composition, as well as its orbit around Didymos.

    Before the impact, Dimorphos circled its larger companion from three-quarters of a mile (1,189 meters) out. Scientists believe the orbit is now tighter and oval-shaped, and that the moonlet may even be tumbling.

    Two shoebox-sized Cubesats will pop off Hera for even closer drone-like inspections, with one of them using radar to peer beneath the moonlet’s boulder-strewn surface. Scientists suspect Dimorphos was formed from material shed from Didymos. The radar observations should help confirm whether Didymos is indeed the little moon’s parent.

    The Cubesats will attempt to land on the moonlet once their survey is complete. If the moonlet is tumbling, that will complicate the endeavor. Hera may also end its mission with a precarious touchdown, but on the larger Didymos.

    Neither asteroid poses any threat to Earth — before or after Dart showed up. That’s why NASA picked the pair for humanity’s first asteroid-deflecting demo.

    Leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago, asteroids primarily orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in what’s known as the main asteroid belt, where millions of them reside. They become near-Earth objects when they’re knocked out of the belt and into our neck of the woods.

    NASA’s near-Earth object count currently tops 36,000, almost all asteroids but also some comets. More than 2,400 of them are considered potentially hazardous to Earth.

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  • The Block host Scott Cam is ‘ready to call quits’ and retire for good from the reno show – after he slammed 2024 contestants for being ‘less resilient’

    The Block host Scott Cam is ‘ready to call quits’ and retire for good from the reno show – after he slammed 2024 contestants for being ‘less resilient’

    Scott Cam is reportedly ready to hang up his tool belt and retire from The Block after 14 years as its host.

    The media personality, 61, who took over as host from Jamie Durie in 2010 during season three of the series, is said to be frustrated with contestants in recent years.

    Woman’s Day reports that Scott’s had enough and 2025 will be his last year, but Nine says that’s just not the case. 

    An insider alleges that Scott revealed his retirement plans while filming season 20, saying he was only doing ‘this year and next’ on the show.

    ‘When Jesse [Maguire] and Paige [Beechey] quit the series mid-season, it really shocked him and made him even more determined to walk away in 2025,’ they said.

    ‘Scott holds The Block very dear to his heart and he couldn’t understand why anyone would leave his hit series and the highly emotional decision they made. 

    ‘It reinforced to him the idea of leaving on a high next year to spend more time with his family.’

    The source went on to reference similar rumours which spread in 2023 about Scott retiring soon, but Nine ‘squashed’ those by signing him onto a new deal.

    Scott Cam, 61, (pictured) is reportedly ready to hang up his tool belt and retire from The Block after 14 years as its host

    Scott Cam, 61, (pictured) is reportedly ready to hang up his tool belt and retire from The Block after 14 years as its host

    However, the deal is said to have only covered two years, keeping Scott on as host for the 2024 20th anniversary season and the 2025 Daylesford season. 

    According to the insider, it was all ‘part of a grand plan for Scott to leave on a high with very two different and challenging seasons of the renovation show’.

    The Block was originally set to film in Daylesford this year, but complications with receiving council permits pushed that renovation back to next year. 

    Producers scrambled at the last second to secure a run down resort on Phillip Island, dropping a staggering $9.5 million on Island Cove Villas,

    The insider said Scott was ‘bitterly disappointed’ when Daylesford was put on the backburner because he wanted to host that season ‘then bow out graciously’. 

    However, Nine has once again put those rumours to rest, telling Daily Mail Australia on Monday: ‘Scott Cam has no plans to step down from The Block.’ 

    It comes just days after Jesse, 29, and Paige, 27, lashed out at host Scott after he made ‘distasteful’ comments about recent participants on the show.

    The media personality, who took over as host from Jamie Durie in 2010 during season three of the series, is said to be frustrated with contestants in recent years. Pictured: 2024 contestants Jesse and Paige

    The media personality, who took over as host from Jamie Durie in 2010 during season three of the series, is said to be frustrated with contestants in recent years. Pictured: 2024 contestants Jesse and Paige

    Last month, Scott said contestants of the Channel Nine renovation series have less grit than they did 20 years ago, when the show began.

    ‘They are less resilient than they were 20 years ago, 15 years ago,’ Scott told news.com.au at the time.

    ‘There’s more expectation of it getting easier, but it’s not. It gets harder… And people aren’t ready for how hard it is.’ 

    Jesse and Paige, who dramatically left the show halfway through the current season, hit back at Scott’s comments.

    ‘A lot of people didn’t like what Scott said. A lot of people did not like that. I think that was very distasteful,’ Paige told Yahoo Lifestyle.

    Jesse went on to point out the show is completely different these days and contestants no longer have time to build due to challenges and daily consultations.

    The Block host Scott addressed rumours of his impending retirement from Nine’s hit renovation show to Daily Mail Australia as recently as last year.  

    Rumour now has it Scott's had enough and 2025 will be his last year, reported Woman's Day on Monday, but Nine says that's just not the case. Pictured: Scott and co-host Shelley Craft

    Rumour now has it Scott’s had enough and 2025 will be his last year, reported Woman’s Day on Monday, but Nine says that’s just not the case. Pictured: Scott and co-host Shelley Craft

    The builder-turned-reality TV host attended a launch party for the 2023 season of his show and told the crowd he was planning on staying for a long time.

    ‘Two months ago I signed a multiple year deal with the Nine Network. It was an easy decision as I love this show and couldn’t think of going anywhere else,’ he said.

    Scott then said while he had no immediate retirement plans, when that day came in the distant future he had the perfect person in mind to take over as host.

    ‘I reckon the only person who could do it is my current co-host Shelley Craft, that’s right,’ he said. 

    Shelley, 48, added there was no one better suited than her to take over the reins when the time finally came.

    ‘That’s my job, isn’t it? Don’t I step up and then I get a sidekick?’ she joked.

    In 2022, Scott addressed speculation about his future on the show yet again, telling Daily Mail Australia he would be on building sites for decades to come.  

    The builder-turned- reality TV host has been the face of The Block since 2010 when he took over from the original host Jamie Durie in season three

    Pictured: Jamie Durie on The Block

    The builder-turned- reality TV host has been the face of The Block since 2010 when he took over from the original host Jamie Durie (right) in season three

    The veteran tradie has a 40 plus-year career behind him and has hosted The Block for the past 14 years—with seemingly no desire to stop any time soon.

    ‘I’m 60 this year and I’m physically fit, I’m doing a renovation of my home now because of the mould from all the rain,’ he told Daily Mail Australia at the time.

    ‘I’ve got at least another decade on the tools. I told my wife recently, we’ve got 20 years of good health left so from January 1, let’s start a 20-year odyssey of living life. 

    ‘I’ll keep going till I can’t anymore because I love it. I reckon I can do 20 years on the tools, and I’ll pull up when my body tells me to.’

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