Port Adelaide have secured prized trade target Charlie Dixon with the AFL club finalising a three-way deal for the Gold Coast key forward. Dixon, 25, flagged his desire to join …
Continue reading Power snare Dixon in three-club AFL tradeARLC CHAIRMAN JOHN GRANT AND OUTGOING NRL CEO DAVE SMITH ON RUGBY LEAGUE’S BIG ISSUES: SMITH ON WHY HE’S LEAVING: “I’ve decided the time is right for me to move …
Continue reading NRL’s big issues: Smith and GrantA defiant Michael Cheika says the Wallabies absolutely deserve their place in the Rugby World Cup semi-finals, despite getting lucky in a game where he admits they started to believe …
Continue reading We deserve WC semi spot, says CheikaThe Wallabies acknowledge it’s an emotional week for scrum guru Mario Ledesma as he helps them to derail the Rugby World Cup campaign of his countrymen. Argentina loom as a …
Continue reading Ledesma forced to choose RWC loyaltiesControversial Cronulla NRL forward Andrew Fifita has thrown his support behind Matthew Lodge, after the former Wests Tigers’ player was hit with a string of charges in New York. Lodge …
Continue reading Cronulla’s Fifita moves to support LodgeFormer Richmond captain Chris Newman has had the ideal start to his AFL coaching career, joining Hawthorn in a development role. Alastair Clarkson’s dynasty at the Hawks has become famous …
Continue reading Newman starts AFL coaching at HawksHe’s been watching, but former NRL chief executive David Gallop isn’t interested in talking about his successor’s departure from the role. Rugby league boss Dave Smith announced his resignation on …
Continue reading Gallop stays silent on Smith’s NRL exitFrance’s World Cup was a “total failure”, the country’s rugby federation chief said on Monday after a crushing 62-13 quarter-final defeat to New Zealand. “We had fixed important targets, so …
Continue reading France suffered ‘total failure’ at RWCGeelong coach Chris Scott is comfortable with the high price the Cats have paid for their busy AFL trade period. Geelong have welcomed four experienced players – Patrick Dangerfield (Adelaide), …
Continue reading Cats trade bonanza worth the price: ScottFans might beg to differ, but Dave Smith is confident his infamous “Benji Barba” gaffe won’t define his tumultuous three-year reign as NRL boss. The outgoing chief executive hopes leaving …
Continue reading ‘Benji Barba’ gaffe won’t define me: SmithNRL heavyweights Todd Greenberg and Shane Richardson head the list of potential successors after Dave Smith on Tuesday called time on his three-year reign as a rugby league “change agent”. …
Continue reading Greenberg favourite for Smith NRL top jobFrom the very beginning Dave Smith was a stranger in a strange land. He was a Welsh banker parachuted in as the head of a fiercely tribal, sometimes cannibalistic, factional …
Continue reading Dave Smith: an NRL strangerJamie Whincup may be forgiven by his Holden team but the V8 Supercars star reckons he has been portrayed as the “villain” ahead of this weekend’s Gold Coast 600. Whincup …
Continue reading I am portrayed as a ‘villain’: WhincupI’m back. If the message on James Courtney’s newly-designed helmet does not make it clear, the Holden star wants to ram home the point with “total dominance” at this weekend’s …
Continue reading Courtney back for Gold Coast V8sJamie Whincup may be forgiven by his Holden team but the V8 Supercars star reckons he has been portrayed as the “villain” ahead of this weekend’s Gold Coast 600. Whincup …
Continue reading I am portrayed as a “villain”: WhincupThe NRL’s crucial new broadcast deal was always Dave Smith’s baby. But the former banker has quit from his post as the game’s chief executive with the deal only half …
Continue reading Smith exits before TV deal is doneThe Melbourne Rebels are hopeful of having Fijian flyer Sefanaia Naivalu on deck for round one of the Super Rugby competition as he continues his comeback from a badly broken …
Continue reading Rebels hoping Super Sefa ready for seasonHolden superstar Jamie Whincup says he has been portrayed as the Bathurst 1000 “villain” in the wake of his Mount Panorama gaffe that left his V8 Supercars title defence in …
Continue reading I am seen as Bathurst “villain”: Whincup

