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Fiji could have their entry into the NSW Cup rubber stamped as early as Friday as they seek to uncover the next generation of Semi Radradras.The bid team, which is being spearheaded by Queensland and Fiji rugby league legend Petero Civoniceva, will make their case to the NSWRL board as they aim to enter the reserve grade competition next year.The project has been three years in the making and is well advanced with plans to play out of the 15,000-capacity ANZ Stadium in Suva and set up a base at Sigatoka, where the players would eat, sleep and train in a live-in environment.The consortium earlier in the year hosted NSWRL CEO Dave Todden to present their case and the final hurdle is to prove they have the financial and corporate backing to stand on their own two feet.It was born out of Civonicevas experiences playing for the Fijian national side in the 2013 World Cup where he heard first hand from his teammates the difficulty they had finding a pathway to the NRL.Unless theyre scouted or found at school by an NRL scout, theres no real pathway into the game, Civoniceva told AAP.Someone like Suliasi (Vunivalu), he was in New Zealand and seen there playing rugby union.What we want is a direct, local pathway in a professional environment. Well have a camp set up. Theyll be fulltime and live out of it.The Fiji bid model is based on the PNG Hunters, who have enjoyed strong success since entering the Queensland Cup in 2014 and this year finished second on the ladder.The prize on offer is the deep well of talent that exists in Fiji as officials battle with rugby union for access to the countrys top players.The country has a proud tradition of cultivating talent stretching back to the likes of Noa Nadruku, Lote Tuqiri and Civoniceva.Of late, the likes of Radradra, Marika Koroibete and Melbourne winger and this years top try scorer Vunivalu have proven themselves some of the most exciting players in the game.It has long been identified as a fertile breeding ground for footballers with French rugby clubs establishing academies in the tiny Pacific island of 900,000 in the hope of scouting the best young players. Al Del Greco . 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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers wrapped 67 years of Vin Scullys career into an hourlong on-field ceremony Friday night, and nobody seemed to mind one bit that first pitch was pushed back some 37 minutes.Scully, the legendary broadcaster who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, will retire following next Sundays game at San Francisco. At 88, he has just six games remaining behind the microphone, counting Friday nights 5-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies.Going back to his first Dodgers broadcast in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, Scully has called thousands of Dodgers games and also branched out into network golf and as an NFL announcer for a time. Among his most famous calls, he was on hand for three perfect games, including one by the Yankees Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series.Scully was there for L.A. Dodgers World Series championship seasons in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988. He called Hank Aarons record-breaking 715th home run with the Atlanta Braves and Bill Buckners error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.The first 50,000 fans in attendance Friday received a typed letter signed by Scully containing recollections from his career.You were simply always there for me, Scully wrote. I have always felt that I needed you more than you needed me and that holds true to this very day. I have been privileged to share in your passion and love for this great game.During the ceremony, the results of a fan poll revealed Scullys top call to be Kirk Gibsons dramatic home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series against the Athletics. Gibson was on the video board reciting lines from Scullys call and told the story of how he was inspired to come to the plate in that game despite two leg injuries because Scully had said on the broadcast that Gibson wouldnt play.On-field speakers Friday included Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, current staff ace Clayton Kershaw, Spanish-language broadcaster Jaime Jarrin and MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. But it was actor Kevin Costner who brought down the house with a dramatic speech set to music.We will misss you, my friend, Costner said.dddddddddddd. We will miss you on our radio, in our cars and in our backyards. You have been a gift to Los Angeles and to baseball itself. How lucky we were that day in Brooklyn when the microphone was passed into your hands. You were the chosen one.Costner has been a part of three iconic baseball movies, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and For Love of the Game, a film that included Scully as a broadcaster who calls a perfect game thrown by Costners character, Billy Chapel.Despite taking the microphone in front of nearly 50,000 in attendance, Scully did as he always does, by seeming to talk to each person individually. But not before starting his speech with one of his more famous lines.Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to all of you, he said as the crowd roared upon hearing his familiar sign-on to games.Scully thanked the players, he thanked the media, he thanked those who work in the commissioners office, but most of all he thanked the fans.When I was 8 years old, I fell in love with the roar of a football crowd coming out of a speaker on an old four-legged radio, Scully said. When you roar, when you cheer, when you are thrilled, for a brief moment, I am 8 years old again.So now what for Scully? He was quick with a response.You know, if youre 65 and you retire, you might have 20 years of life left or more, and you better have some plans, Scully said. When youre 89 [he turns it in November], and they ask you what your plans are -- Im going to try to live.A quick wit was always a part of Scullys arsenal, as was his incomparable and informative storytelling. As for the immediate future, he joked, Now I am looking for a much smaller house, and a much larger medicine cabinet.But his time at the microphone did not end until he delivered another of his signature lines.Its time for Dodger baseball, he said in the deliberate cadence that has helped make Scully the most beloved broadcaster of all time. ' ' '