Sharks too smart in the wet for hot-and-cold Dragons to make an unhappy homecoming for Flanagan

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To paraphrase Bill Woodfull, there were two teams out there at Shark Park on Sunday but only one of them was playing wet-weather footy. Cronulla’s conservative approach eventually extinguished St George Illawarra’s attacking instincts at PointsBet Stadium with the competition leaders doing enough to deny their 2016 premiership-winning coach Shane Flanagan victory in his first […]

NRL Round 10 Teams: Storm weakened on multiple fronts, Broncos sweat on Reynolds replacement, Souths in disarray

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The Storm have suffered multiple hits to their spine in the lead-up to their top-of-the-table clash against Cronulla with Jahrome Hughes set to join Ryan Papenhuyzen on the sidelines. Papenhuyzen will be out 4-6 weeks after suffering a small fracture in his leg in Saturday’s narrow win over the Gold Coast while Hughes felt a […]

‘We don’t give penalty tries for that’: Warriors denied by bunker’s controversial call as Knights grind out ugly win

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The Warriors sunk to their third straight loss on Sunday against the Knights after having two tries controversially disallowed in the wet at Newcastle. Veteran winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak was the unlucky player on both occasions with the first one denied by the bunker even though Newcastle were penalised and the second disallowed due to an […]

‘Furthest thing from funny’: Brad Scott gives Draper both barrels over Beveridge podcast dig

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Essendon coach Brad Scott says ruckman Sam Draper still has plenty of scope to express his personality and be funny – just not at the expense of an opposition coach. Draper earned the ire of Essendon and Western Bulldogs officials for his podcast comments in which he questioned the future of Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge  […]

NBA landscape set for seismic change in the off-season with multiple franchises desperate to atone for playoff failures

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The Lakers’ decision to fire coach Darvin Ham just days after their first-round exit is merely the beginning of what will be a flurry of off-season upheaval at many NBA franchises.  As has been the case for a decade-plus, the epicentre of the seismic changes to the NBA landscape will be LeBron James.  Ham getting […]