"Fox Sports reporter
James Hooper has been on his high horse criticising other media, but he needs to clean up his own act.
He has already had one incident when he jumped on a the bonnet of a car while intoxicated. But what isn’t as well known is the way he carried on in Las Vegas on an NRL-funded trip. He was hard at it most nights, including when he had to catch a plane with other reporters and Rooster
Spencer Leniu for a promotion in Utah. Everyone was on board the flight to Salt Lake City, apart from Hooper. He missed the flight and had to scramble his way to Utah, arriving a couple of minutes before an event.
Previously, another reporter was forced to do on-camera interviews with Rabbitoh
Campbell Graham because Hooper was a no show.
Hooper can no longer do the bidding of the sacked
Paul Kent, and the pressure is on after a problem with a story on
Kalyn Ponga and his father Andre.
Fox Sports was hit with a legal letter by Knights insider
Blake Cannavo in May after Hooper reported Cannavo paid the Pongas $250,000 in allegedly unpaid third-party deals.
Cannavo denied he owed the Pongas any money, or that he had made any payment after Channel Nine revealed Ponga’s father, Andre, had gone to the NRL with concerns about money that might have been owed to his son.
Hooper changed his story on the Fox Sports website multiple times before it was eventually taken down. Hooper did not respond to calls for comment."
There was a genuine swagger in the way the NSW team celebrated their series win in Brisbane, especially their eye-catching choice of attire.
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