Parramatta Stadium is to be transformed into a NRL grand final live site for Eels fans unable to get tickets to Sunday’s sold-out game at ANZ Stadium, the former Olympic stadium at Homebush.

NSW Premier Nathan Rees says the state government will open Parramatta Stadium to fans from 2pm (AEDT) to allow supporters to watch the game on the big screen.
The Eels players will then go to the live site after the match to celebrate or commiserate with their fans.
Mr Rees says he expects the Eels players to arrive triumphant, and …

American boxing superstar Roy Jones admits he faces a lot more pressure when fighting Australian Danny Green after agreeing to a 2010 rematch with old adversary Bernard Hopkins.

Jones arrived in Sydney on Tuesday to promote his highly anticipated fight with IBO cruiserweight world champion Green in Sydney on December 2.
His clash with former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Hopkins, who he beat 16 years ago, was settled last week but is dependent on him defeating Green.
A four division world champion, 40-year-old Jones is bidding to become the first man …

A woman has been charged after trying to steal a Chihuahua puppy at gunpoint, police say.
The 26-year-old woman went to a house on Perkins Avenue, Kellyville, in Sydney’s northwest, at 11.30am yesterday with an appointment to buy a puppy.
She allegedly produced a gun and demanded the puppy.

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PREMIER Nathan Rees has urged the people of NSW to back the ”mighty Eels” in the NRL grand final.
Yesterday the self-confessed westie said the Parramatta players would need the support of the whole state as they took on their interstate rival in the season decider.
”I call on everyone in NSW to get behind the mighty Parramatta Eels,” Mr Rees said before Melbourne Storm qualified by beating the Brisbane Broncos 40-10 in the preliminary final last night.
”Last year I exhorted people to back Manly against an interstate rival. This year I …

THE Ibrahim clan is under siege following a remarkable two-month covert police investigation that has seen the family’s two youngest brothers implicated in an alleged murder plot.

The alleged target of the murder conspiracy, a 37-year-old restaurateur and former Ibrahim associate, John Macris, was in hiding yesterday as Fadi Ibrahim, 35, and a former bikie, Rodney Atkinson, faced Parramatta court charged with conspiring to kill him.
Police had moved on Thursday to arrest Fadi and Mr Atkinson after the plotters allegedly found where Mr Macris was staying, according to the head of …