Rugby League

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Whether you love or loathe the sportsball - that's Aussie rules, rugby league, and rugby union to the uninitiated! - there's no doubting it's a feast for the eyes.

While the NRL trumpets its relationship with the White Ribbon organisation, it has been unwilling to back that support up with action on domestic abuse, writes Rebecca Wilson.

Thelma Spencer is 108 … and mad about NSW captain Paul Gallen!

We’ve read endless commentary on odds, stats and injuries but one aspect of the 2015 State of Origin series has been ignored, until now – which side is spunkier? Blues or maroons?

Rugby League player Alex McKinnon stands unassisted for the first time since his devastating spinal injury which left him in a wheelchair. “He’s just finished in his rehab and he actually stood up unabated the other day … he stood up on his own which is a terrific sort of step for Alex,” Coach Rick […]

Yesterday there was a bit of a hallelujah moment in sport. The NRL introduced a zero-tolerance policy towards on-field violence, meaning anyone caught swinging a punch on field will be automatically sin-binned and potentially face the judiciary. It comes after the now infamous attack Blues’ skipper Paul Gallen made against Maroons’ forward Nate Myles. For […]

When young Arwa imagined the man she would spend her life with, a rugby league player was not top of her thoughts, she tells Michael Sheather. Then she met Hazem. Love sometimes appears in the most unexpected places. For Arwa El Masri, wife of rugby league star Hazem El Masri, it arrived with a jolt […]