Thirty-five years ago, Terri Irwin's life changed with a chance encounter at a wildlife park in Queensland, Australia. There, she met Steve Irwin, the man who would become her husband and soulmate in an extraordinary life. Now, Terri is looking back on that unforgettable day, celebrating the love, family, and adventures that grew from their first meeting.
View this post on Instagram
A post shared by Terri Irwin (terriirwincrikey)
On October 6, Terri Irwin marked 35 years since first meeting "the most incredible man," her late husband Steve Irwin, at a roadside wildlife park in Queensland.
She commemorated the life-changing moment by sharing a photo of Steve holding a snake in front of her face. "I always felt like Steve and I were more than soulmates. Our life's purpose was even bigger. I am truly blessed to live a life so full of love, family, and adventure," Terri captioned the post.

#terri #irwin #post #years

I have spent much of this week watching Australian coverage of the NFL and scrolling through social media posts as the 49ers and Rams prepare to play the first regular-season game in Australia. The coverage has been entertaining, enthusiastic and occasionally educational. There have been explanations of the rules, breakdowns of the equipment and attempts to introduce American football to a country that already has a sport called football.
The Aussies are excited. Nearly 100,000 people are expected to fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Moreover, the NFL has taken over the city. The Jonas Brothers will perform at halftime, and Tourism Australia has built an advertising campaign around the game featuring wildlife conservationist and television personality Robert Irwin. He's the son of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin. In addition, Netflix will distribute the game globally.
It should be a spectacular event. I'm just not convinced it proves football has become a global sport.
This season, the NFL is staging nine regular-season games in seven countries outside the United States. That represents an extraordinary expansion from the occasional London game of the past. The league is no longer simply testing international markets. Moreover, overseas games have become an important part of its schedule, television strategy and marketing machine.
However, more games in more countries don't automatically mean football has developed deep roots in those places.

#sport

Australian conservationist Bindi Irwin has marked the 20th anniversary of her famous father's death with a touching tribute to the man best known as the "Crocodile Hunter".
Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006, aged 44, after a stingray fatally pierced his chest while he was underwater filming a documentary at the Great Barrier Reef.
Bindi, who was eight when her father died, called Steve a "superhero" in an online post on Friday, saying she has "watched the world mourn my dad with our family" for the past two decades.
"I always thought that my dad's legacy is wildlife conservation; it turns out, his legacy is love. For our planet and for each other," Bindi, 28, wrote on Instagram.
Steve Irwin died in 2006, survived by his wife Terri and two children Bindi (pictured) and Robert [Getty Images]

#bindi #irwin #steve #legacy

Robert and Bindi Irwin are honoring their father, Steve Irwin, 20 years after his death
Bindi shared a video of Steve discussing her birth and reflected on the legacy he left behind
Robert marked the anniversary with a photo of himself as a baby with his father, writing, "Your legacy is forever"
Robert and Bindi Irwin are remembering their father, Steve Irwin, 20 years after the wildlife conservationist died in a freak stingray attack.
Robert marked the anniversary by sharing a photo of himself as a baby sitting on his father's lap on Instagram, captioning the image: "Your legacy is forever."

#years #himself

'Dancing With the Stars' cast 2026: Complete list of athletes, celebrities on DWTS Season 35 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
"Dancing With The Stars" season is officially back.
Season 35 of the celebrity dance competition will premiere in just a few weeks, with Robert Irwin returning as the reigning champion. As usual, there are some notable athletes and figures from the sports world participating in 2026.
This year's cast of "Dancing With The Stars" features an Olympic figure skater, a Paralympic gold medalist and a Savannah Bananas star.
Here's a look at the full cast of "Dancing With The Stars" Season 35, including bios on the athletes involved.

MORE: Full list of athletes to ever win Dancing With the Stars

#stars #dwts

Robert Irwin is celebrating some big news from his former Dancing With the Stars partner, Witney Carson.
Carson recently announced that she and her husband, Carson McAllister, are expecting their third child. The professional dancer shared the news on August 17 while also revealing that she will return for Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars, this time partnered with Guillermo Rodriguez.
The pregnancy announcement quickly made its way back to Irwin, who won Season 34 of the competition with Carson. Fans on Reddit recently revisited his reaction to the news, with one post highlighting the sweet exchange between the former partners.
"No audio of it, but Robert's reaction is so sweet," the original poster said.
Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency

#dancing

The Los Angeles Lakers have what appears to be a good and competitive roster set for the upcoming NBA season. However, they aren't championship contenders, and they're likely one or two pieces away from getting to that level.
There have been some fans who have been dreaming about the possibility, faint as it is, of Nikola Jokić coming to the Lakers. He has yet to sign a long-term extension with the Denver Nuggets, and although the three-time MVP has stated that he will wait until next summer to do so, nothing is official until it is official.
Anthony Irwin, a reporter who covers the Lakers, implied in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that once the team's ownership situation gets sorted out, it will keep its eyes on Jokić's situation in Denver.
Obviously, one has to take this with a huge grain of salt. The Nuggets are a talented team that features quality complementary players such as Jamal Murray, who is coming off a career season, Cam Johnson and Aaron Gordon. However, they just traded rising stud Peyton Watson to the Cleveland Cavaliers, so they could be a bit weaker this coming season.
Last season, despite finishing third in the Western Conference with a 54-28 record, the Nuggets fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs. With Jokić doing his thing at the center position, they should still be very competitive this season.

#nuggets #coming

Betfred Super League
Hull KR (14) 28
Tries: Lewis, Lawton, Hadley, Pangai Jr Goals: Martin, Mourgue 5
Warrington Wolves (10) 34
Tries: Hopoate 2, Bentley, Sipley, Byrne, Williams Goals: Irwin 5

#tries #super #league #pangai

US Army soldiers are testing a wave of new digital tools and weapons.
Some troops still rely on ***** og backups in case digital systems lose connection.
How much soldiers trust the new technology can come down to comfort level.
The US Army is embracing a massive digital transformation across systems and technologies, but that doesn't mean soldiers are ready to give up their physical, ***** og backups any time soon.
At a recent experimentation exercise at Fort Irwin in California, soldiers tested new digital maps and communications systems that Army leaders described as a major jump forward in streamlining decision-making. But troops said they still wanted physical counterparts for redundancy, ensuring they had fallback plans if network connections were lost.

#digital

Robert Irwin is calling out mainstream media for misrepresenting his family.
The conservationist, 22, spoke about navigating his life in the public eye in an interview with the Something to Talk About podcast released Saturday, in which he recalled a moment when paparazzi took pictures of him after the death of his beloved childhood pet chicken, Piggy.
Irwin said that when he was 16, he was getting off a flight when he learned that Piggy had died. The family had adopted the chicken after the death of his father, conservationist Steve Irwin.
"She was so much more than a chicken," he recalled. "She was 13, and I got the text that she passed away. I got off the plane and there was a bunch of cameras taking photos of me."
He continued: "I was absolutely cut up. I looked obviously very sad and then the reports come out: 'Oh, there's a family rift between Robert and his sister,' or 'Robert's mum is doing this.'"

#family #chicken #robert #talk

Bindi Irwin has delighted her followers with a beautiful new photograph of her family.
The wildlife conservationist shared a candid moment featuring her husband, Chandler Powell, and their five-year-old daughter, Grace Warrior, as the trio relaxed together outdoors.
In the sweet image, Bindi, Chandler and Grace could be seen lying side by side on the ground.
Bindi with her husband and their young daughter (Bindi Irwin/Instagram)
"This little family of mine," Bindi simply captioned the post, adding a red heart emoji.

#side

The San Francisco 49ers on Friday made a handful of roster moves to bring in tight end Josiah Deguara and wide receiver Trenton Irwin.
In a pair of corresponding moves the 49ers waived cornerback Derrick Canteen and waived recently-signed TE Tanner McLachlan with an injury designation.
Deguara is a Santa Rosa native who entered the NFL in 2020 as a third-round pick of the Green Bay Packers. He spent four seasons in Green Bay, one in Jacksonville and one in Arizona. In six NFL seasons he has 12 starts in 77 games. Deguara has 53 receptions for 473 yards and three touchdowns as a pro. He has a real chance to stick on the back end of the roster depending on how many TEs the 49ers keep.
Irwin figures to be more of a camp body than an actual candidate to make the final roster. He was part of a workout that featured three veteran wide receivers earlier in the week. Irwin last played in the NFL in 2024 when he was with the Cincinnati Bengals where he spent his entire six-year career. During his Bengals tenure he hauled in 46 passes for 601 yards and five touchdowns.
The 49ers badly need WRs who can take reps in training camp and the preseason. As a seasoned pro it wouldn't be a surprise if Irwin does enough in camp to land a spot on the 49ers' practice squad.

#moves

The US Army is deciding what worked and what failed in a major test of its new command system.
The parts that worked will now be rolled out to more units for further testing and training.
Some systems did not hold up in the desert heat, with parts overheating during recent testing.
The US Army put its prototype command-and-control system to the test in the desert. Now, it's sorting out what performed well enough to be scaled across the service — and what should be cut.
The Army has been developing Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, alongside industry partners like Anduril and Palantir, and at a recent exercise at Fort Irwin, California, the service put it to work in a large-scale desert combat scenario.

#desert #control #testing #recent

MONROE – A 12-year-old and a veteran were the big winners in the 48th annual La-Z-Boy Junior Open.
Harlow Swank, who will begin her seventh-grade year at Newport St. Charles in a few weeks, and Billy Sennett Jr. of Flat Rock, playing in the event for the final time, were crowed as champions at Green Meadows Golf Course on Wednesday, July 22.
It was the third La-Z-Boy ***** le for Swank, but this time was different.
The 12-year-old girl won the girls open division, finishing ahead a group of teenagers.
More: Airport's Tilley and Irwin headline 2026 All-Region softball team

#year #time #monroe #charles

Betfred Super League
Wigan (6) 30
Tries: Cartwright, Kerr, Eckersley, McDermott, Daniel Goals: Keighran 5
Warrington (12) 18
Tries: Hopoate, Irwin, Ashton Goals: Irwin 3

Lakers' Dalton Knecht gets brutal Jonathan **** inga sign-and-trade news months after roster request originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Dalton Knecht was hoping the Los Angeles Lakers would put him out of his misery before the Feb. 5 deadline and trade him to a franchise that would give him the freedom to make mistakes and blossom into a solid player.
Per Offside’s Anthony Irwin, the Tennessee product approached the Lakers’ front office on Jan 28 and requested to be traded after quickly falling out of JJ Redick’s rotation. Unfortunately for Knecht, there wasn’t an organization willing to welcome the former first-round pick with open arms, which explains why he’s still on the roster.
With the Lakers aggressively pursuing an offseason sign-and-trade for Jonathan **** inga, though, Knecht received renewed optimism that Los Angeles would finally set him free. That said, a recent report regarding the Lakers’ potential sign-and-trade package for **** inga is brutal news for the second-year guard.
"I want to give a big shout-out to a friend of the show, Khobi Price, who had a huge report today updating the **** inga situation," Lakers insider Jovan Buha stated Wednesday. "He reported that Atlanta is open to trading Jonathan **** inga to the Lakers in a sign-and-trade with the framework being Jarred Vanderbilt and the Lakers' 2032 first-round swap."

Betfred Super League Magic Weekend
Leigh (14) 24
Tries: Niu, Armstrong, Ipape, Hanley Goals: Cook 4
Warrington (0) 6
Tries: Sneyd Goals: Irwin

Shinnecock is hosting the U.S. Open June 18-21, for the sixth time. James Foulis won the first one there in 1896. Other winners include Raymond Floyd (1986), Corey Pavin (1995), Retief Goosen (2004) and Brooks Koepka (2018).
Where's the U.S. Open heading next? Here's a look at the future U.S. Open venues:
Pebble Beach will host its seventh U.S. Open June 17-20, 2027. The six winners there are Jack Nicklaus (1972), Tom Watson (1982), Tom Kite (1992), Tiger Woods (2000), Graeme McDowell (2010), Gary Woodland (2019). U.S. Opens visited Pebble about every 10 years but there will be three in an 11-year span coming up.
The West Course, designed by A.W. Tillinghast, has been the site of six U.S. Opens, with Bob Jones (1929), Billy Casper (1959), Hale Irwin (1974), Fuzzy Zoeller (1984), Geoff Ogilvy (2006) and Bryson DeChambeau (2020) the past champions.
Donald Ross built the course in 1907, and 2029 will mark the fifth time for the U.S. Open to be played there. Pinehurst is an "anchor" host site. Bryson DeChambeau won his second U.S. Open at No. 2 in 2024. Payne Stewart made a memorable 18-foot par putt in 1999 to edge Phil Mickelson. Michael Campbell won there in 2005, while Martin Kaymer won it in 2014.

Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell are navigating having family on two separate sides of the world.
Powell, 29, was born and raised in Florida but resides in Australia with the Dancing with the Stars champion, 27, as they raise their daughter, Grace, 5, and manage Australia Zoo.
A source exclusively tells In Touch that while Powell's loved ones have an "open invite" to visit Australia, "a lot of his relatives are getting old and making such a long trip is difficult, so he's really feeling pulled to go home and get some quality time in before it's too late."
"Chandler would love to take Bindi and Grace back to America for an extended period, but there's just no way Bindi can leave the zoo with him gone at the same time, so they've had to settle for him just taking Grace on his own," the source explains. "When he does get back, it's usually only for a week at a time, which just isn't enough."
As for how the zookeeper feels, the source says: "Bindi would never want to hold him back, but she's also very reliant on him. He's not just her rock at home; he's become so crucial for the day-to-day operations at the zoo. When he goes, it's going to mean a ton more on her shoulders."

Today the Memorial Tournament, which is hosted by former Ohio State Buckeye Jack Nicklaus, gets underway at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the tournament, and will feature the majority of the golfers currently in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
For many of the golfers teeing it up at Muirfield at Jack’s Place, it will be their final tune-up before the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in two weeks.
The first Memorial Tournament took place in 1976, with Roger Maltbie defeating Hale Irwin in a playoff. The next year Jack Nicklaus would go on to win the tournament that he hosts. The second **** le for the Golden Bear came in 1984. Nicklaus is one of six golfers with two wins at the Memorial.
Last year Scottie Scheffler had little trouble winning the tournament for a second straight year, beating Ben Griffin by four strokes.
This year Scheffler will try and join Tiger Woods as the only golfers to win the Memorial in three straight years. Woods has won the Memorial five times during his career, which is the most of any golfer. When Woods won in 2012 he registered his 73rd PGA Tour victory, which tied Nicklaus for second-most at the time.

Not many things, from deadly snakes to big cats, unnerved the late Steve Irwin, but when it came to the "naughty parrot," the wildlife expert would get slightly nervous, according to his wife.
"You might not know this, but the only animal that made Steve a little nervous was the naughty parrot!" Irwin's wife, Terri Irwin, wrote in a May 30 post on Instagram alongside a photo of her late husband and a red parrot. "Every parrot tried to get in a quick bite before Steve could react!"
Irwin, who was popularly known as the "crocodile hunter" for his abilities to capture and safely secure problem crocs, died on Sept. 4, 2006, after a stingray struck him in the heart as he was working on the underwater film "Ocean’s Deadliest" in Australia. He was 44. The famed conversationalist is survived by his wife, Terri Irwin, and two children, Robert Irwin, "Dancing With the Stars" Season 34 winner, and Bindi Irwin, who is also a "Dancing With the Stars" winner.
Robert Irwin is a wildlife conservationist, television presenter, zookeeper and the son of the late Steve Irwin, famously known as "The Crocodile Hunter." On Sept. 16, he made his debut on "Dancing with the Stars."