‘We got the basics and it was live on ESPN!’: How Cool Runnings and a banned union star put RL in an NFL stadium

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You can imagine it now. A massive NFL stadium, a coast-to-coast TV presentation, not a cloud in the sky and rugby league posts at either end of the field. That’s what will mark the start of the 2024 NRL season this coming Sunday as Manly and Souths face off at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, […]

Leaping to finals conclusions: Predicting which team among the nine also-rans can make giant step forward in 2024

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With kick-off to the NRL season just a few days away, nine sides are hoping to continue a trend where at least one side leaps from also-ran status into the finals on the back of a five-win improvement or more. Over the past nine seasons, the top eight has never been static year to year […]

Goal-scoring fullbacks, Tilio magic: The A-League players who were the difference in Round 18

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Round 18 was an intriguing weekend of football with four draws, 14 goals in six matches, for the second week in a row and three teams that managed to keep a clean sheet. In the two games where a team claimed three points, the winning team had less possession than their opponent. There was a […]

Bazball beaten: Indian young guns’ nerveless stand aces chase, ensures Poms’ first series loss under McCullum

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India have accomplished a nervy run-chase to secure a five-wicket victory against England in the fourth cricket Test in Ranchi. Chasing a modest 192 for victory on Monday, India cruised to 0-84 before the English spinners engineered a collapse that left the hosts reeling at 5-120. Shubman Gill (52 not out) and Dhruv Jurel (39no) […]

England conquered, Irish in their sights and ‘the only holes Ireland have are exactly where Scottish swords fit’

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Less than one hour past the game, as we trod to the bars, the Calcutta Cup safe back in the arms of glad Scots who had just made the English go home to think again and again and again and again, a young man strode out of a Princes Street shop into our path, scooped […]