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AU Financial Review
4 hours ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
You're richer than you know: inside the inheritocracy
This week on The Fin podcast, Chanticleer columnist James Thomson and Wealth reporter Lucy Dean on the surge in inherited wealth, what's behind it, and how it's changing what we think about business, money – and love.
AU Financial Review
6 days ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Virgin takes off Will house prices ever fall?
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony relive what was an extraordinary day for Australia's sharemarket this past Tuesday, sort through the 2025 financial year's winners and losers and tackle a question about the Australian housing market. Listen to the full conversation below, or download the podcast from Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes of the Chanticleer podcast are available every Friday at 5pm AEDT.
AU Financial Review
24-06-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Virgin's well-crafted IPO delivered. Now it must keep its big promise
They've got long memories down at Virgin Australia. On April 4, as the world reeled from US President Donald Trump's infamous 'liberation day' tariff announcements, your columnist suggested on the Chanticleer podcast that if private equity firm Bain Capital and its advisers managed to get the airline's IPO away then they deserved to have statues built on Martin Place and Collins Street. As Virgin hit the ASX boards on Tuesday in an impressive debut – the stock leapt almost 10 per cent upon opening, and settled 9.3 per cent above its $2.90 issue price at $3.17 – chief executive Dave Emerson couldn't help noting there were 'some who said it couldn't have happened. We won't mention who those might be.'
American Press
21-06-2025
- Sport
- American Press
Scooter Hobbs column: Cinderella, no Wolf in rooster's clothing, yes
OMAHA, Neb. — Nah-nah-nah-nah, Coastal Carolina. Just no! Don't be bringing that thing in here. Just no. CC: Who? What? LSU: That Cinderella card you're trying to play. We ain't buying it. CC: But we're … LSU: Murray State was Omaha's Cinderella story this year. Had the papers to prove it. Didn't last long. The Racers went home early like good little princesses. Got their two-game stay, a good steak, a pat on the head and went back to Kentucky. CC: And the LSU first baseman, Jared Jones, didn't even know where Coastal Carolina was located. LSU: He had it narrowed down to either North or South Carolina. CC: It's South, by the way. Conway. Maybe a long home run from Myrtle Beach. LSU: Not exactly Starkville. CC: You don't even know what a Chanticleer is. LSU: Oh yeah? It's fictional, but it's an angry rooster of some sort. Came to life in the pages of 'Canterbury Tales,' one of Geoffrey Chaucer's better works, or so we're told. CC: Then pronounce it. LSU: Uh, give us a minute. Cha … CC: Try SHON-ti-cheer. The enunciation-challenged just call us 'Chants.' LSU: Thanks. But what's that got to do with baseball? CC: LSU is baseball royalty … LSU: Proud of it, too. CC: Seven national championships. Owns Omaha. What do y'all call it? Geauxmaha? Alex Box North? LSU: And you're trying to kidnap the Tigers' Cornfield Alumni, the adopted fan base, with this Cinderella nonsense. Teal Nation, is it? CC: But it's only our second time in Omaha. LSU: Yeah, and how did the other one turn out? CC: OK, we won the national championship in 2016. LSU: That's 1-for-1. CC: People say it was a fluke. LSU: Not the Tigers. They were eyewitnesses. You beat LSU in the super regionals that year — in Baton Rouge, in Alex Box South, swept the Tigers in two games. You don't fluke something like that. CC: And, yeah, got hot in Omaha. LSU: Tell the current LSU coach about it. Jay Johnson was on the receiving end of it. Was at Arizona then, and y'all took down his Wildcats. Still has the scars. CC: Ancient history. Different team. LSU: No kidding. You're the hottest team in the country. You've won 26 consecutive games — 26! How does that happen? LSU never has never done it. Ever. CC: Didn't play the schedule LSU did. LSU: Doesn't matter. What is it, 56 wins overall? Looked it up. That's five more than any team in the country. CC: We were fortunate. LSU: It includes the postseason, 8-0 there. CC: LSU is unbeaten in Omaha, super regionals, too. LSU: Lost to little ol' Little Rock in the regionals. CC: But we don't play in the mighty SEC. LSU: You played Auburn, the No. 4 national seed, in the super regionals. CC: Yeah, that was a good weekend. LSU: You swept the War Eagles. LSU got swept at Auburn in the regular season there — the lone team that beat the Tigers three times. CC: But LSU is the No. 6 national seed. LSU: Auburn was No. 4. Didn't bother you then. And you didn't come out of nowhere. You were No. 13, got to host a regional. Didn't exactly come out of the boondocks. CC: Cinderella. That's our story and we're sticking to it. All aboard the cute and cuddly bandwagon. LSU: We know how to settle this. There's your coach over there, a Mr. Kevin Schnall, I believe it is, let's listen to him up there on the podium. CC: We heard him. He's an alum. LSU: He looks like something out of a bad baseball movie, scraggly beard and all. Funny guy, seems to have a bit of an edge to him. But here's what he said about Coastal being in Omaha: 'It's incredible but it's not unbelievable,' sayeth he. 'And it's not unbelievable because we've got really good players — really good players.' I'm afraid he blew your cover. Cinderella, my … — Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at
USA Today
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
What is a 'Chanticleer'? Coastal Carolina's mascot and nickname, explained
Coastal Carolina is back in the men's College World Series, with the Chanticleers facing the LSU Tigers and hoping to win their first national title in baseball since 2016 (and maybe they're getting some support from an Outer Banks actress). But if you're here, you might be wondering about something in the paragraph above: just what the heck is a Chanticleer? If you've never heard of that, you'd understandably be confused. Luckily, we've got you covered. A Chanticleer is a rooster, and the name came from Geoffrey Chaucer's classic Canterbury Tales. But there's a story about how Coastal Carolina ended up with a name like that: How did Coastal Carolina get the name Chanticleers? From CCU's site: In the early 1960s, Coastal's athletic teams were known as the Trojans. A group of Coastal students and their English professor-basketball coach Cal Maddox brought up the idea of a new mascot. At the time, with Coastal serving as a two-year branch campus of the University of South Carolina, many people began to push for a nickname that was more closely related to USC's Gamecock. Thus, Chanticleer was born, giving Coastal its own identity and one of the most unique mascots in college athletics. What's the pronunciation of Chanticleer? It's not CHANT-IH-CLEAR. It's SHON-TI-CLEAR. What's Coastal Carolina's mascot? That would be Chauncey.
