To celebrate its Surprise Gig bonus data offer, Virgin Mobile has announced the Surprise Gig Tour - a series of free, last-minute music gigs around Australia to be announced via its Members' Lounge Facebook page.

AFTER a $100,000 bet was wagered on Collingwood to make the top eight at odds of $1.22 during the week, it is apparent that punters are waking from their summery hibernation with dreams of easy money fresh in their consciousness and a bad case of trigger fingers.

Poker machines are at the heart of the state's gambling problem.

BEN Cousins' manager has welcomed the AFL's assertion that players who test positive for drugs on game day could cost their team premiership points and said his client will do whatever it takes to return to football next year.

WEST Coast midfielder Adam Selwood has put his club on notice by demanding that he be released from his new contract and traded to a club of his choice if the Eagles are punished again by the AFL for bringing the game into disrepute.