Aussies rocked by scandal

It's not all sunny and nice in AUSTRALIA this morning: A rugby scandal has rocked the sports-mad nation.
Top NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE club MELBOURNE STORM have been stripped of two past championships, ruled ineligible for this season's title and fined after admitting that they'd been running two sets of books to conceal that they've been paying players more than allowed, circumventing salary cap rules meant to prohibit rich clubs from simply buying titles.
Paying illegally high wages -- more than $1 million over the past five years -- enabled the Storm to recruit and retain some of the game's best players, including Greg Inglis and Cameron Smith.
"STORM STRIPPED OF TITLES," reads the headline in Melbourne's Age newspaper.
"STORM SCANDAL ROCKS NRL," reads the headline on The Australian newspaper's Web site (owned by the same parent company as the Storm, incidentally).
"CHEATING STORM," reads the headline in The Sydney Morning Herald, which calls the scandal "the biggest story in rugby league history."
Keep an eye on Australia -- sports fans are reeling today.