{"id":40774,"date":"2025-08-03T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:11:06","slug":"dominant-maroons-raiders-legend-sam-backo-tragically-passes-away-aged-64-fox-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40774\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dominant\u2019: Maroons, Raiders legend Sam Backo tragically passes away aged 64 &#8211; Fox Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-AFBVV95cUxOWWNGLU1kb2FfQWdteWs3WjhXcVFQM1hyNnZ6ZXd2cGRfSkFGWkFaaF82YTh1Xzhzd2EyckF5UHo4TDBNM3pKaWFRcnBKWFF5U01fR0p5VkxWQUZkYzlfWWlzaTN3NEpyYmthZVkxM1dFZjNjRzRNWnFCcVRNNHhuNXhwZGJ3OENRa2oybXVBemdzalJ1MFJKUVZmZndVWjZGaFdXbGFIbHp4cFV4dWlId3h2WlZKdzlWaV9kSzE5dDRkMk1nZVZDSld0ZkpSM3dSSjRaOEI4N3pXX3hlUDctRjk2eENpZWpYVDFBRWZfRnVBYzhUWUJ3cA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Dominant\u2019: Maroons, Raiders legend Sam Backo tragically passes away aged 64<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fox Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxQaVBWOV9wQ2RpTms5b0ExRm00WU9RYkFaeDg2TTJOUnpRc1g1RG5uUGZYN21uWUExOUZScVo4NlFoTHFaSkozVzhDUG1FckdFQ09iUURnNHE4emx3b2Z6WlZZU0hvSzFtR2VGQkZVQ0JKSmxpVkRqeWwxcVFISy1KdVltRGlTTUN3c3hKZnFYQW9Ta0RIcE5ZdG9B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rugby league great Sam Backo dies in hospital after battle with melioidosis<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4wFBVV95cUxQZ3NQMkpvMEYzWjNlOEpJdzBRTTNBUDd0cHBSc0tSQjhrUTZ5U21fTjVUVWl0ZlRSeHUyMjgxaWhSTF9zZ0s2NVc5eG4tb1VYWllIb0wwUUpPWXVMT0lpalQzZ2ZBY0RCNXdlQy1XVnd5bmFHdFVWNHVjNkpjaW1rNjQ0U1JwT2JqUjduQU5rOUNOSmN3QjBLQWxvT1UyNnBQcnpVelFaTWNNYzJCaHcwWTRVTHFfaGctd05SZUU2T0xNaUtLbHlIM0Z4OWJVMUc2THQ2eTQ1Z2FRZG80NG5YdXJ2OA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Queensland Maroons legend dead at 64<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Courier Mail<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiYEFVX3lxTFB6cWRReHpMenhNbVN0TkhiYXdYcjBOSjd0M0xFSVRvWEpnXzMzeTdkazk1YTZHbm40Q2IxTFFZenUyc3dadkY0czJuQW90NXZXRW4yY1ZKM0llWFhnOEpNYw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vale Sam Backo<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NRL.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNX2JXQTdnSTdMTEMzSlR5cmhTMHlUWjRSVVJVTUJNSldGTWZ0aWdwY0dTdWdjNVl2TFFfXzJrQ1Y2R25kUHJmODhYMkd2YUlkR0JadENIMWpfQXo5OHFSOGpvcFg2NWZoMWxNN3hveWN1SU53QldHempkZVlZYzFnVF90QWNXT2k0bGxfLWxza3JpMmk1eVJRM1RodDdTT19xcHZfajFNM3BLaTQz?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Queensland great Sam Backo dies, aged 64<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Dominant\u2019: Maroons, Raiders legend Sam Backo tragically passes away aged 64&nbsp;&nbsp;Fox SportsRugby league great Sam Backo dies in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-40774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}