7/10/2008 | GRANT STOELWINDER'S dream team gained another high-profile member yesterday when triple Olympic medal winner Andrew Lauterstein revealed he will move to Sydney to train alongside world record-holders Eamon Sullivan and Libby Trickett.
7/10/2008 | KERRIN McEVOY turned around an indifferent start as stable rider for Darley by booting home four winners at Warwick Farm yesterday.
7/10/2008 | IN A season when so little has gone right for Newcastle, it seemed entirely appropriate that lowly Wellington were able to clinch a last-gasp draw in a dramatic game at EnergyAustralia Stadium yesterd...
7/10/2008 | THE gladiatorial instincts of Matthew Hayden have been pricked by Harbhajan Singh's pre-series declaration that he is not out to make friends against Australia, and the opening batsman last night said the history of tension between the pair would only make him play better in defence of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
7/10/2008 | LANCE ARMSTRONG still plans to attend the Tour Down Under in South Australia early next year, even if the world cycling body rules he is not eligible to compete.
7/10/2008 | HALF-EMPTY, or half-full? That was the conundrum facing Newcastle coach Gary van Egmond as the final whistle sounded at EnergyAustralia Stadium yesterday. As the skies blackened and the heavens opened after an afternoon of hard graft in steambath conditions, it seemed the end of the world was nigh. The good news for both the Jets and the Phoenix is they will live to fight another day. A third of the way through the season, both clubs can still aim, realistically, for a place in the finals.
7/10/2008 | Hawthorn will meet with Ryan O'Keefe today or tomorrow in a bid to learn whether the uncontracted Sydney forward can be accommodated within the club's tight player payments regime.
7/10/2008 | REPRESENTATIVE bonuses are about to increase the difficulty of keeping Manly's premiership-winning team together.
There are calls for up to nine Sea Eagles players to be included in the Austra...
7/10/2008 | MELBOURNE Storm players yesterday stood defiant against the doomsayers proclaiming the end of an era and declared that they would be a force again next season.
The Storm were humbled 40-0 in Sunda...
7/10/2008 | "WE'RE the Storm and we're No.2," Melbourne's suspended skipper, Cam Smith, sang on the team bus as it travelled from Homebush Bay, the scene of the club's greatest humiliation...
7/10/2008 | AND so the Manly players partied in a penthouse. Entirely appropriate - not only because they have reached the pinnacle of the premiership, but also because of where they have come from. On their knee...
7/10/2008 | SUNDAY'S afternoon grand final has been declared a resounding success, with more Sydney viewers tuning in than last year and broadcaster Channel Nine trumpeting a national ratings win.
After a...
7/10/2008 | WRITTEN in big, bold lettering on a whiteboard in the Manly dressing room were two words: "Kick pressure".
And how Matt Orford kicked the pressure that had plagued him in the lead-up to th...
7/10/2008 | IN MANLY loyalty is a battered six-month-old TAB ticket with your team's name on it. Greg Fletcher, a diehard fan, has a wad of them, equalling a total winning pool of about $35,000.
For Mr Fl...
7/10/2008 | STEVE MENZIES' premiership farewell was not goodbye, it was only au revoir. After he left Manly as a title winner following the 40-0 thrashing of Melbourne, Menzies is set to be invited back to the club following his stint in the British Super League with Bradford to work on the club's staff - with chief executive Grant Mayer saying he would be "crazy" not to hire him.
7/10/2008 | THE morning after the night before was one of sore heads, croaky throats and strange get-ups for many, but for others, it was about getting straight back to work.
6/10/2008 | HE SHOOTS (off), he scores. And so as many have done previously - leave it to Beaver - winger Michael Robertson handed Steve Menzies a pass, and a one-way ticket to greatness.
6/10/2008 | Kingaroy had reason to cheer when Matt Ballin scored the grand final's first try.
6/10/2008 | MANLY winger Michael Robertson was the unlikely hero of the grand final with three tries in 17 minutes - but he has revealed how close he went to blowing his opportunity because of a party lifestyle w...
6/10/2008 | FURIOUS Manly prop Josh Perry has hit out at rival Michael Crocker over a story alleging he had an affair with a former teammate's girlfriend.
In a dramatic postscript to his side's 40-0 v...