Tasmania's NBL franchise has signed a new import with NBA experience just a day after farewelling one of the club's greats.

Last season, Buford was fined $10,000 and handed a suspended one-match ban for insinuating NBL referee Chris Read held a bias against his team and writing profanities on the officials' door ...

Jack jumpers are a fact of life in many south-eastern Australian backyards, and a sting is almost inevitable for anyone who goes outdoors. The black and orange ants, also known as hopper ants and ...

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The team will be known as the Tasmania Jack Jumpers, named after a species of venomous ants mostly found on the Australian island state. “Joking yeah? Good one. Got me good,” former NBA No. 1 ...

All 74 jack jumpers brought this with them for the 34th Annual Jack Jump World Championships last Sunday.This unique method for sliding on snow, which is only allowed at the resort on the day of ...

A few months from now, these childhood buddies of mine will mount odd snow-sliding devices called jack jumpers—basically a stool attached to a single alpine ski—and square off in a contest for ...

They've come to fight in February. Jarrett Jack made a tiebreaking jumper with 1.3 seconds left, and the Nets used a late rally to beat the Clippers 102-100 on Monday night. "It's gratifying ...

Tasmanian medical researchers are developing a new blood test to determine whether a person is allergic to jack jumper stings, replacing the current sting test. Based at the Royal Hobart Hospital ...