{"id":722494,"date":"2026-06-08T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722494\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:05:10","slug":"collingwood-vs-melbourne-live-afl-round-13-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-big-freeze-kings-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/722494\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood vs Melbourne LIVE: AFL round 13 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG, Big Freeze, King\u2019s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivalling Lee for size was Sam Mac, dressed as everyone\u2019s favourite cartoon dog Bluey.<\/p>\n<p>Onlookers caught their breath as he momentarily failed to resurface &#8211; spotter Anthony Marchesani, waiting in his jocks nearby, jumped into action, dragging the costumed Mac from the water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Mac dressed up as Australia\u2019s favourite cartoon dog. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0e665a7dd94d7720126080261177aa38897f08f0.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Sam Mac dressed up as Australia\u2019s favourite cartoon dog. AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Mac admitted he had not anticipated the added weight of the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like I was down for a while, building the suspense, but I\u2019m just so proud to be part of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way [Neale\u2019s] message is magnified today is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rivalling Lee for size was Sam Mac, dressed as everyone\u2019s favourite cartoon dog Bluey. Onlookers caught their breath&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-722494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722494","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=722494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}