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NRL 2024
NRL round 19 LIVE: Cronulla Sharks v Wests Tigers
A game against Benji Marshall’s cellar dwellers at PointsBet Stadium looms as the perfect chance for the Sharks to stop their slump. But can they do it without Nicho Hynes?
- by Phil Mitchell and Adam Pengilly
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‘Unheralded civil case’: Text from Topine’s father to Bulldogs
Lawyers for former NRL player Jackson Topine and the Canterbury Bulldogs have appeared together in court for the first time.
- by Adam Pengilly and Adrian Proszenko
The last Origin decider in Brisbane featured a brawl. It’s why the Blues won’t back down again
Michael Maguire has preached to his team not to take a backwards step. So, if there’s a repeat of the last major State of Origin brawl, Blues players won’t be slow to react.
- by Adam Pengilly
Blues debutant Mitch Barnett missed the birth of his son – to help his NSW teammates
The 30-year-old will get his first Origin cap in the series decider – and coach Michael Maguire knows the extent of his sacrifice.
- by Adam Pengilly
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NRL 2024
How the Bulldogs will fight Topine’s ‘hopelessly embarrassing’ $4 million lawsuit
Canterbury will allege the wrestling session at the centre of the unprecedented civil case lasted no more than six minutes and it’s a common measure across the NRL.
- by Adam Pengilly and Adrian Proszenko
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State of Origin
Mitchell ruled out for at least a month; Best, Ponga to make Origin recalls
Mitchell is no chance of playing in the Origin decider, while Kalyn Ponga is set to return and Michael Maguire will hand out another debut to a NSW forward.
- by Michael Chammas and Adam Pengilly
Penrith Panthers put Brisbane Broncos’ finals hopes in doubt
A host of big-name Origin stars are back in NRL action this week for a grand final rematch. Will the return of Reece Walsh at Suncorp Stadium spark a Brisbane side in free fall after four straight defeats?
- by Adam Pengilly
‘It was taken away from me’: The Olympic champion who spent a year battling long COVID
For any Olympic gold medallist there can be a range of emotions in the weeks and months afterwards. For Matt Wearn, he couldn’t get out of bed or off the couch as he battled a virus which he still deals with before Paris.
- by Adam Pengilly
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Courts
‘I will destroy you in court’: Top jockey’s night of drunken, racial abuse of police
Chad Schofield was meant to be in Wagga for a lucrative horse racing carnival, but instead ended up in custody after a wild confrontation with police.
- by Adam Pengilly
Does any horse deserve a stakes win? Bjorn Baker thinks he has one
He’s anxious he’s gone to the well one time too many, but Bjorn Baker is confident he can nab the Winter Stakes before Iknowastar’s spring campaign.
- by Adam Pengilly
‘Good for the town, but good for me’: Dar Lunn’s 50-year journey to Elson Boy fame
The larrikin jockey-turned-trainer has seen plenty of horses in his time, but few as good as Elson Boy.
- by Adam Pengilly