You Can Bet On Slats To Hit The High

Michael Evans once strolled high on a hill with a lonely goat.

What's Good For You Is Slats

MICHAEL Slater will be back on the box tonight for the new series of What's Good For You on NBN.

Kick Out The Slats

Are our backsides getting soft? Doug Anderson says there is nothing wrong with a bit of recycled hardwood to sit on outdoors.

Slats Lifts Lid On Fury

MICHAEL Slater has revealed his fury about being sacked from the Test team and detailed the tense exchanges that followed with two of the men responsible for his demise Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist.

Tubbs And Slats Slip Back Into The Old Routine

FORMER Test opening partners Mark Taylor and Michael Slater may be very different characters, but their routine at a debate hosted by Sydney grade club UTS-Balmain at NSW Parliament on Thursday suggested they remain a very good combination. The theme was "Who Carried Who" and the pair hilariously niggled each other while being interviewed by former Test and NSW off spinner Gavin Robertson. Recounting an innings at Lord's, Slater said: "Tubby was hitting them right out of the middle that day, it ...

Slats In Vics Push - Jones

Victorian legend Dean Jones believes the Bushrangers will be interested in luring disillusioned Michael Slater away from NSW next season.

Sacked Slater's Number Is Officially Up

``DON'T get a skin graft, Slats."

Miracle Vision Still Out Of Sight

Still missing those four-foot putts? (We're talking to you, Shark!) Still having trouble with the line outside the off stump, Slats? And is it more rim than net with the three-pointers for you, Andrew Gaze?

Brickbats For Slats

MICHAEL Slater surely must be kidding.

Slats Says Sorry Over Outburst

MUMBAI.- Michael Slater has apologised to Rahul Dravid for the verbal abuse he dished out to the Indian batsman during the first cricket Test.

Good Gate Feng Shui

? Don't grow vines or creepers on your gate because a creeping plant over an entrance symbolically suggests the family will lose its home. The effect will be worse if the plants are poisonous or thorny. ? For a timber gate, place wood slats vertically to suggest growth. ? Avoid angular design

The Golden Fleece

SHEEP which never see paddocks or sunlight have produced the most valuable wool ever sold in Australia. The sheep are kept in pens which have just enough room for one animal, with a metal feeding trough at the front and a continuous supply of water at the back. They stand on wooden slats thr

Drugs The Reality Of Life On Smith St

REALITY CHECK 1 Two people are wrestling on a Smith Street bench seat. A youth holds a girl-woman by the wrist with one hand, while with the other he tries to prise apart her clenched fingers. He has her arm outstretched and jammed against his thigh, while she squirms across the wooden slats o

Boonie Legacy Leaves A Scar

TUBBY, Heals, Slats, Billy and Boonie are gone . . . and so are their numbers. Along with their persons, the one-day international cricket arena is missing the pyjama numbers of Mark Taylor (1), Ian Healy (7), Michael Slater (2), David Boon (3) and Craig McDermott (15). The numbers were introduced

Cheeky And Dashing Makes For Dull And Shallow

SLATS OPENS UP Author: Michael Slater with Mike Coward Publisher: HarperSports Price: $16.95 Release date: Available now Rating: ** 1/2 out of five THE brains trust went out for a long Friday lunch that somehow ended up as an early- morning stagger into the gentle dawn light of

Never One Of The Flock

THE "star" caravan is parked in a grotty little backyard off a daggy lane that runs off boring Church Street in Melbourne's understated suburb of Richmond. Halfway through our interview, Anthony Hopkins jumps up and looks out of the narrow slats covering the opaque windows on hea

End State-bashing - Greiner

The Prime Minister, Mr Keating, would have to stop kicking the states to develop a productive approach to Australia's economic problems, the New South Wales Premier, Mr Greiner, said yesterday. ``The traditional Paul Keating approach to the states _ which is to kick them in the slats and tell th

Two Men In Court Over $28m Cocaine Seizure

Two men have appeared in different courts charged over the seizure of Australia's largest high-grade cocaine haul, worth an estimated $28 million. The drug had allegedly been secreted in the wooden slats of a crate carrying a motor-vehicle kit, and freighted on a Qantas flight from Panama

Freed Dissident Speaks Out For Those In The Gulags

Shizol. Roughly translated, it means "penalty isolation", but the words are not enough. For the Soviet dissident Petro Ruban, it meant a room, three paces square, with no bedding except a few wooden slats, no heating in temperatures of 15 below zero and nothing but the ragged wo

Mistakes Led To Station Deaths, Inquiry Is Told

LONDON, Tuesday: A fire which killed 31 people at Kings Cross station last November probably began when a match was dropped through a gap in the escalator slats igniting an accumulation of grease, debris and dust several centimetres thick, a public inquiry was told yesterday. Counsel for the