CAMP NOT SO QUALITY – HOW EMERGING MAROONS CURFEW BREAKERS’ BANS HURT QUEENSLAND’S DEPTH FOR 2016 STATE OF ORIGIN SERIES Players now not considered for 2016 Origin: VALENTINE HOLMES: Could …
Banned Essendon players will take their long-running saga to Switzerland in a last-ditch bid to be cleared of doping charges. At least half the 34 current and former Bombers found …
Port Adelaide say the AFL’s ruling that prevents it and three other clubs signing top-up recruits to replace banned former Essendon players lacks sense. Port believe the AFL decision was …
John Millman has forced his way into the quarter-finals of the Open Sud de France to continue his good form from the Australian Open. The world No.78 showed plenty of …
Exciting St Kilda youngster Jack Billings says his injury-enforced layoff has taught him to savour every moment of his promising AFL career. The 20-year-old’s 2015 season was wrecked by a …
Queensland coach Kevin Walters admits the fallout over the disastrous Emerging Maroons camp controversy will have a huge impact on his maiden State of Origin campaign this year. In a …
Australian coach Andy Friend has stressed throwing Quade Cooper into the sevens’ deep end would have disrespected his regular campaigners and sacrificed Sydney 7s success. In his first tournament in …
Speedy outside back Kotaro Matsushima will join the Melbourne Rebels for the 2016 Super Rugby season, continuing their tradition of signing Japanese internationals. The 22-year-old, who represented Japan at last …
Davis Cup is coming full circle for new Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt. The freshly retired Hewitt will transition from playing stalwart to captain for the first-round tie against the United …
The next NRL chief executive is not expected to be unveiled before the end of March. On the same day second-in-command Suzanne Young resigned, a NRL CEOs’ meeting in Auckland …
Queensland have stood down an additional six players for this year’s State of Origin series. Brisbane trio Anthony Milford, Ben Hunt and Jarrod Wallace, the Roosters’ Dylan Napa, Canberra’s Edrick …
South Sydney back-rower John Sutton has rubbished rumours of unrest at Redfern and has promised to present a united front during their NRL Auckland Nines defence. The Rabbitohs were forced …
SUZANNE YOUNG’S RESIGNATION AS NRL CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER IS ONE OF MANY SINCE DAVID GALLOP’S REPLACEMENT BY DAVID SMITH: * Shane Mattiske (head of strategy) – The man who took …
They’re not playing for the big silverware and there are no household names among them, but Australia’s classy, yet unheralded, women’s sevens rugby team will capture the imagination and plenty …
Jarryd Hayne is expecting the Fijian rugby sevens team to make a strong push for the nation’s first Olympic medal in Rio. The San Francisco 49er, who represented Fiji in …
Expect the unexpected from Brisbane boom rookie Carlin Anderson at this weekend’s NRL Auckland Nines as one of Queensland’s brightest young talents stakes his claim for a backline vacancy. The …
More players look set to be suspended after the Queensland Rugby League confirmed they would make a major announcement regarding their Emerging Origin camp investigation on Friday. QRL boss Peter …
They have revolutionised the 13-man-a-side game. Now national rugby league club champions Ipswich Jets want to do the same for the “boring” NRL Auckland Nines. NRL coach-in-waiting and Jets co-mentor …
