5/09/2008 | AUSTRALIAN rugby is not entirely in great shape. The Wallabies can't string two good Test wins together. Depth in certain playing positions is flimsy. The Sydney premiership club scene remains a h...
5/09/2008 | ROBBIE DEANS turned away from New Zealand rugby union as the Super 14's most successful coach, and now Greg Somerville, his right-hand man of a decade of scrums and silverware with the Crusaders, ...
5/09/2008 | RUCK & MAUL
ALTHOUGH Rocky Elsom is heading to Ireland following the Tri Nations, there remains a strong chance he will play for the Wallabies during the extensive end-of-season tour through ...
5/09/2008 | EWEN McKENZIE says he will not stand in the way of Robbie Deans should the Wallabies coach seek the release of Mark Gasnier from Stade Francais to play for Australia during the end-of-season tour of Europe.
5/09/2008 | HAWKS v BULLDOGS
JARRYD ROUGHEAD says playing next to Lance Franklin is like living in football nirvana.
"Yeah, well, you get to play next to the guy who's arguably going to be the be...
5/09/2008 | AS MUCH as I hate to admit it, I have felt for a while that Mad Monday celebrations - and possibly end-of-season footy trips - are destined to disappear from our game in the next few years.
This f...
5/09/2008 | THE benefits of not making the finals have been made clear - high draft picks that, notionally, can make the foul scent of failure as welcome as the stench of manure on a dying garden.
So what ben...
5/09/2008 | PAUL ROOS believes the AFL has missed a perfect opportunity to market the game in western Sydney, saying if he were in charge he would be "running around in my car out in Blacktown giving tickets out the window".
5/09/2008 | IN A tale of two fullbacks, St George Illawarra have lost Jason Nightingale to a quadriceps injury before tonight's Sydney Football Stadium clash with the Sydney Roosters , whose own custodian,...
5/09/2008 | TODD Carney has signed with Huddersfield for the same three-year term as incoming coach Nathan Brown, but the axed Raiders star can return to the NRL in 2010 if he wants. Halfback Carney will join Bre...
5/09/2008 | WHEN Wendell Sailor joined St George Illawarra in May after completing his two-year drugs ban, the former Wallabies star told coach Nathan Brown he had made the finals in each of his nine seasons with...
5/09/2008 | THE moment that got the Knights fired up for their game against the Storm last Saturday arrived by chance, but there was nothing lucky about the ensuing victory over the NRL's defending champions....
5/09/2008 | SHOULD the Storm finish second on the NRL ladder and proceed to the grand final qualifying weekend, the consolation of enjoying an extra day's rest has been lost because of a prior booking at Melb...
5/09/2008 | MELBOURNE Storm winger Anthony Quinn yesterday denied he had changed his tune about an alleged spitting incident during the premier's one-point loss to Newcastle last weekend.
Quinn alleged th...
5/09/2008 | FORMER rugby league bad boy Mark Geyer has slammed the three-match suspension for Wade McKinnon, saying the Warriors fullback should have been banned for a year after being found guilty of spitting at...
5/09/2008 | THE centenary of rugby league is obviously a fine time to look back but perhaps the enduring power of the game is proved by the fact that fans are doing it all the time, suggests Guy Hansen, curator of the League of Legends exhibition which opens today at the Powerhouse Museum.
5/09/2008 | Wayne Bennett is content to be leaving the Broncos in good shape after 21 years at the club, writes Andrew Webster.
5/09/2008 | FORMER world No.8 and two-time grand slam doubles champion Alicia Molik has retired from tennis, aged 27.
Molik has struggled since contracting the debilitating middle-ear virus, vestibular neuron...
5/09/2008 | THE late-season surge of St George Illawarra to the NRL finals is tipped to continue tonight at the Sydney Football Stadium when they take on a Roosters team that has been on the slide.
5/09/2008 | Seasoned travellers Michael Hussey and Nathan Bracken have some serious ink in their passports but a visit to outback Australia yesterday will be stamped in their memories as the most rewarding of experiences.