The dark cloud hanging over Australian sport received a welcome silver lining as Canterbury sensation Ben Barba inspired the Indigenous All Stars’ 32-6 win over an NRL ‘who’s who’ at …

A serious knee injury to impact forward Sione Lousi soured Matt Elliott’s first game in charge of the Warriors on Saturday night. Elliott’s youthful New Zealand outfit – missing 17 …

South Sydney have dumped their co-captaincy structure, installing Michael Crocker as their sole skipper for the 2013 NRL season. The Rabbitohs blossomed into a finals team last season under the …

A serious knee injury to impact forward Sione Lousi soured Matt Elliott’s first game in charge of the Warriors on Saturday night. Elliott’s youthful Warriors outfit fell 42-24 to the …

South Sydney have opened their NRL pre-season campaign with a comfortable 38-12 win over Papua New Guinea in Saturday’s trial encounter at Redfern Oval. With owner Russell Crowe watching on …

Promising Wests Tigers fullback James Tedesco survived his first hitout since the knee reconstruction which ruined his rookie campaign but it was Penrith who won an NRL trial thriller 34-32 …

Cronulla winger Beau Ryan wants those involved in the doping scandal gripping Australian sport to either come clean or be named as the pall of illegal drug use hovers over …

The Melbourne Storm are set to pay a heavy price from Friday’s 40-8 NRL trial loss to Canberra, with Kevin Proctor, Matt Duffie and Maurice Blair all picking up injuries …

Canberra made light of their six All-Stars absentees by thumping Melbourne 40-8 in Friday night’s NRL trial match in Geelong. The Raiders were never going to be headed after scoring …

Master entertainer Benji Marshall says he will keep playing All Star games as long as Wayne Bennett keeps coaching them. Bennett’s NRL All Stars will be chase a third win …

Indigenous All Stars coach Laurie Daley says it could take a “State of Origin-like” performance from his players to level the All Star ledger at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night. …

Laurie Daley’s indigenous All Stars players staged an unusual weights session in front of amused early-morning workers after their team bus got stuck in a gutter leaving their inner-city hotel …

Manly’s head of strength and conditioning Donny Singe is adamant nothing untoward has taken place in the NRL club’s sports science department. The well-respected Singe, a former lower-grade player with …

Indigenous All Stars captain Johnathan Thurston could help veteran playmaker Scott Prince into a Brisbane NRL starting jumper at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night. The pair combined at the scrumbase …

Brisbane, Queensland and Australian great Darren Lockyer played 458 rugby league games and never once saw any signs of drug taking. And he was never approached to throw a match …

Less than a week after taking over the hot seat as ARL Commission chief executive, Dave Smith had his first crisis on his hands. Findings from an investigation by the …

Manly coach Geoff Toovey welcomed an investigation into the NRL club’s sport science department on Thursday in the wake of the doping scandal which has engulfed Australian sport. Independent auditors …

Veteran NRL super-coach Wayne Bennett says he’s hoping the drugs scandal that has enveloped rugby league is limited to individuals and not whole teams. An explosive report from the Australian …