SMOKING Ponting won't puff peace pipe with AB or Chappelli … Symonds returns from the deep end … Kiwis ask Fijians not to pray for them before Rugby League World Cup decider … Maradona shows a divine hand for coaching … Al Baxter praised for scrummaging nous by English press. Premonition The Shark won't be biting too hard if he sells his Florida mansion Tranquility for $US47.5 million ($73m), even though his initial asking price was $US65m. In the fickle housing market, Greg Norman has slashed the price for the four-bedroom oceanfront haven, but if it sells at the advertised price it would still be a record sale for the area - surpassing the $US44.5m Tiger Woods paid for a nearby shack. Reports this week stated that under the terms of Norman's divorce with Laura Andrassy, she is entitled to $US17.5m from the sale of the house, which the couple shared from 1991 until they split in 2006. If there's any justice in the world … Welsh winger Shane Williams, favoured to win the IRB's player of the year award on Sunday, states in his autobiography that despite the 53-37 loss to the All Blacks in the 2003 World Cup, he and the team finally received due recognition after that night. Wales performed admirably at Homebush, and Williams announced himself to the world with a brilliant individual display. In his book Shane: My Story , Williams writes: "For Wales it wasn't about the result: it was about showing the rugby world that we were back after a couple of years in the doldrums; it was about winning back our self-respect and proving we could still play the game. When I walked off that field I felt I had proved to people I belonged at this level." Williams and his Welsh teammates take on the All Blacks once more this weekend. The finalists for player of the year are: Shane Williams (Wales), Dan Carter (New Zealand), Mike Blair (Scotland), Sergio Parisse (Italy), Ryan Jones (Wales). Professional's tip for the weekend Here's a useful website if you're going to be cooking aliens this weekend. A tuned-in web chef has listed a number of recipes ideal for impressing your dinner guests ( http://users.bigpond.net.au/wanglese/Alien_recipes.html ). The site starts by listing in point form: Aliens come here uninvited. They ate Elvis. They are Kosher meat. They taste good if prepared well. The site then outlines "how to catch an alien" before teaching you "how to remove the skin". Then follows a number of recipes, including Deep-Fried Alien and Three Alien Pizza. Brother, can you spare a sledge? "Chad Blue knows how I shoot." This taunt on a song earned would-be rapper Rico Todriquez Wright 20 years behind bars, after he shot 28-year-old Blue in 2006. A feud between the pair blew up when Wright - egged on by friends - chased and shot Blue in the leg and groin in Dublin, Georgia - although Blue was unsure who had done the shooting. Later, Blue told police he recognised Wright's voice on a CD, rapping " Chad Blue knows how I shoot ," AP reported. Wright was sentenced to 20 years for two counts of aggravated assault. Revelations "Football star Jermaine Pennant's dad is facing jail after being exposed by the News of the World for drug dealing," the British tabloid screamed. Notorious for his undercover investigations, the paper's Mazher Mahmood (aka the Fake Sheik) went to a dingy apartment where Gary Pennant is shown on hidden video handing over what appear to be tablets. NOTW reports that 44-year-old Pennant appeared at Nottingham Crown Court where "he admitted supplying crack cocaine and heroin to our undercover investigator". "We revealed in January how Pennant sold the deadly drugs to addicts and prostitutes at his scruffy Nottingham flat," the story continues. It's not porn but you'll like it "Before there was Michael Vick, there was Allen Iverson." The man in the video isn't talking about dog-fighting, but about Iverson's record-breaking feats in college football, where many said he was the best footballer they'd ever seen and a glistening NFL career awaited. As history shows, Iverson chose to earn his millions in basketball instead. This is what could have been … go to YouTube and search: "Allen Iverson Playing High School Football". Get me my cab money Zucc's sure-fire winner in the last: Reggae Ameena's success at Wentworth Park last week made it four winning selections in a row for this column. Causeyacan (number seven) should add to that in the final event at Randwick today. If you're not watching sport you should be listening to … Humblin' (Across America) . The Orange Humble Band. Note-perfect American west coast guitar pop. Fourteen slices of juicy gems that will have you jumping in your wood-panelled station wagon and cruising down the highway. Any Way You Want It , Listen Up! , Freewheelin' , What's Your Crime and On Our Way Back Home - all gorgeous.

- Ears McEvoy. Useless trivia Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different - so be careful who you lick.