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Mike Tyson takes on pigeon racing

Posted by Admin on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, In : General Interest 
Wed Mar 17 2010
Mike Tyson
Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport - pigeon racing.

The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors.

The show is currently titled Taking on Tyson and promises to bring audiences inside this "intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world".

Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but will take to the rooftops as a racing rookie. The netwo...


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Bankers, lawyers now proud to be pigeonholed

Posted by Admin on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, In : General Interest 


THEY call it the "Millionaires' Club": a shed at Castle Hill Showground, pigeon charts on the walls, nothing flash.

Inside are lawyers, developers, architects. All have channelled fortunes into pigeon racing, travelling overseas to chase bloodlines and building lofts to rival houses.

"It's like a poor man's racehorse," said Gary Young, a club member and owner of a building company. "But it's not all poor men any more."

These are people once referred to as the Howard aspirationals, who ha...


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