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AFL star Marlion Pickett has told of his remarkable personal turnaround from a drug dealer who turned to burglary to fund his ice addiction to an admired athlete and doting father-of-four. The 28-year-old is a household name among Tigers fans after starring in his debut for Richmond, which also happened to be the 2019 Grand Final when they thrashed Greater Western Sydney.  Though Pickett lived a very different life in his teenage years - during which he was jailed twice for a series of offences including grievous bodily harm and robbery. After getting out of jail for the second time following a two-and-a-half year stint behind bars, the then-21-year-old's son Latrell didn't even recognise him as his father anymore.  Then last July, his close friend Sam Nannup - the brother of his partner Jess and Pickett's cell mate in prison - tragically took his own life. The Richmond midfielder has opened up about his difficult and often heartbreaking rise to sporting stardom in his new

Andrew Bogut has retired from basketball just two years after quitting the NBA in the United States to play in Australia. After 14 NBA seasons, the 36-year-old called time on his career 'effective immediately' with an announcement on his Rogue Bogues podcast on Tuesday.  Bogut said injuries had ultimately ruined his shot at a fourth Olympics campaign, with the Tokyo Games postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.    'The decision hasn't been an easy one, but I think it is the right decision. The decision that I made and where I will be signing for next season is absolutely nowhere,' he said on his podcast on Tuesday.   Andrew Bogut has retired from basketball just two years after quitting the NBA in the United States to play in Australia The 36-year-old returned to Australia in 2018 believing the softer NBL schedule would increase his chances of extending his career through to the Tokyo Olympics Bogut spent the last two seasons with the Sydney Kings and is one

Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail empire has fallen into administration with 13,000 jobs and hundreds of stores at risk, making the Topshop owner the UK's biggest corporate failure of the coronavirus crisis so far.   The controversial 68-year-old tycoon,  who was pictured over the weekend in Monaco where his £100million super yacht Lionheart is docked, acquired Arcadia for £850million in 2002. Though his chief executive blamed the pandemic for the high street giant's demise, experts have pointed out that Arcadia – which owns Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Burton – has struggled to respond to the  increased competition from low-cost rivals like Primark, and online disrupters such as ASOS and Boohoo.    Critics have also accused Sir Philip, who has been mired in a series of controversies in recent years, of not investing enough in the businesses to get them in shape to deal with the new competition in retail. Arcadia is the latest retailer to have been hammered by store closure

A Kentucky summer day camp run by the family of movie star Jennifer Lawrence has been devastated by a massive fire over the weekend.  Camp Hi-Ho in Simpsonville outside of Louisville was ravaged by flames during the blaze on Friday night. Almost nothing was left of the camp's main barn which was turned to ashes. Almost 30 firefighters battled the inferno, which could be seen from miles away. Thankfully, no lives of either animals or people were lost during the fire but it took crews more than an hour to put out the flames in the barn alone.   A woman who had been in the barn was able to escape and some small pets were also rescued. Jennifer's brother, Blaine Lawrence, is the owner and director of Camp Hi-Ho. He wrote online: 'We are deeply thankful that no people or animals were hurt, but we are still mourning the loss of years of hard work and memories that occurred in these walls.' The family farm and summer camp ran by Jennifer Lawrence's brother caught fire Frid