Football
Rugby league is jostling for a place in Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic Games program. Will Australian football – a demonstration sport at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics – demand a piece of the action? Michelangelo Rucci reports.
Rugby League
Only something special it seemed would inspire NSW to victory in the State of Origin series opener at Suncorp Stadium last night.
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NRL integrity unit boss Nick Weeks says Parramatta’s salary cap crisis is proof that clubs who attempt to work outside rugby league’s salary cap will be caught, sooner or later.
Booze bans won’t be slapped on future Queensland camps despite a report that up to 10 emerging players defied new Maroons State of Origin coach Kevin Walters and broke curfew on the weekend.
Brisbane Broncos mentor Wayne Bennett has been appointed as England’s new head coach on a two-year contract, the Rugby Football League has announced.
Another booze-inflicted hangover looms for the NRL with Cronulla’s Valentine Holmes identified as the player at the centre of an Emerging Origin squad controversy that might embroil up to six Queensland hopefuls.
