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2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Tones and I offered NRL grand final show only three weeks ago

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2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Fallout with star leaves NRL with no pre-game entertainment for grand final

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2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

‘Just be careful, they’re on you’: Inside cricket’s greatest scandal

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2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

‘Worst couple of days of my life’: Crossland cops four-match ban for Cleary tackle

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2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

Crossland referred straight to judiciary over Cleary hip-drop tackle

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2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Sports

V’landys sets off on secret trip to Hong Kong, China for ‘NRL Land’

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2026-09-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Later this week, rugby league’s version of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel is expected to emerge from NRL headquarters as Peter V’landys is anointed executive chairman. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Tennis Australia is expected to contest the matters in court. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The appointment is expected to be rubber-stamped at a board meeting of the Australian Rugby League Commission scheduled for Wednesday. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The NRL grand final will be held without a headline pre-game entertainment act after negotiations with Australian artist Tones and I collapsed over her set list. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 This masthead revealed on Tuesday that the grand final will go ahead on October 4 without a headline pre-game entertainment act after the NRL was unable to come to a last-minute deal with the ARIA award winner. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Walker will reclaim his place in the Roosters line-up in Friday night’s grand final qualifier against the Dolphins at Suncorp Stadium less than two months after succumbing to a syndesmosis injury against the same opponents. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 That would rule him out of Sunday’s grand final as well as the start of next season. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Sources speaking on the condition of anonymity have indicated that Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies and bass guitarist Chris Joannou are both willing to perform as part of grand final day. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Having been referred directly to the judiciary without a charge or grading, the only question to be answered was how many games Crossland would be suspended for. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “When Nick decides on a player, he will not let up until he gets the deal,” Bouris says. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When Cameron Bancroft made the seismic decision on March 24, 2018, to take a small sheet of sandpaper out of his pocket and attempt to scuff up the ball, he should have known he would never get away with it. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 I wasn’t to know that by the next leg of the tour in Cape Town, the vision would be rendered a footnote to one of cricket’s most infamous episodes. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 New Zealand Rugby has launched legal action against the NRL which could force the Australian government-backed expansion side the PNG Chiefs to be renamed. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But with the Roosters having sealed a maiden NRL title with last Sunday’s one-point win over Newcastle in the grand final, Walker’s management will resume talks with the club while he competes for a World Cup crown with Kevin Walters’ Kangaroos. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Peter V’landys has played down suggestions of more trouble at the controversy-plagued Perth Bears involving head coach Mal Meninga and his assistant Ben Gardiner, saying he is confident they will work well together when the expansion team begins their inaugural pre-season next month. assertive

2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But Luai’s new club teammate and national captain Junior Paulo has welcomed the five-eighth with open arms to Parramatta, where he will spend next season before heading to Port Moresby. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The NRL will allow players to challenge the market value ascribed to them by head office in a move that could revive the PNG Chiefs’ pursuit of NSW and Canberra star Hudson Young. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 If the salary cap increased by 25 per cent – which is what most clubs are budgeting for – that would have taken Walker’s wage to $1.5 million. mixed

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 His itinerary was expected to include Hong Kong as well as Guangzhou and Shenzhen in mainland China. mixed