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Do not believe everything you read would seem to be the message Penrith Panthers player James Maloney is sending in the wake of reports that he does not get along well with Nathan Cleary. Maloney will be out until finals, nursing a knee injury, which left him with some spare moments to speak out of…

News recently reached us that Richmond Tigers Captain Trent Cotchin has committed to staying with the club until the end of 2022. Four years in football is like 20 years in other pursuits. We recently renewed our marriage vows through the end of 2048, which seems a long way off, but we think it an…

Welcome to the top, Cameron Ciraldo. The unceremonious dismissal of Anthony Griffin, Ciraldo was tasked with steering the Panthers through finals. During his first game as the interim coach, five-eighth James Maloney went down with a knee injury. The best-case scenario is that Maloney will miss the Panthers’ final three games, but may be available…

Three Wallabies have managed to receive declarations of fitness to participate in the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney, provided they do not succumb to some mysterious malady after the All Blacks perform their mystical pre-game haka ahead of the game. The three players are Captain Michael Hooper, Scott Sio and Dane Haylett-Petty. Hooper had…

Triple Lion premiership player Jonathan Brown has a plan to bring life back to the Gold Coast Suns, unfortunately, it would rely on Gold Coast taking a hard line with the clubs in line to snatch up Tom Lynch, who has made no secret of his desire to escape the pit of despair in the…

The Gold Coast Titans have shown flashes of, if not brilliance, at least a high level of competence, but they have also had their lustre dulled by a lack of consistency when it comes to winning games that should come easily. Gold Coast lost to the Parramatta Eels at ANZ Stadium and it is hard…

Successful Dragons mean just one thing. A surplus of dragon slayers waiting in the wings to take a shot at the wounded. St. George has been a model of consistency all season, never out of the top four and on top much of the time, but they have slipped from first to fourth as knights,…

The NBA offseason is significant for the shifts teams make in the effort to improve. Most of it seems like swapping on one good or average player for another one, the key exception perhaps being the move by LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Los Angeles Lakers. With few exceptions, players want out…

At the moment, Australia has just Jason Day amongst the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the carryover season of 2017 – 2018. The number of golfers increases to two when you look down that list and find Marc Leishman in the 18th position. Cameron Smith started the year with promise, but…

According to Adam Gilchrist, Australia’s greatest even cricketer, Ricky Ponting, missed his calling when he took up the willow over the persimmon. For those whose expertise does not extend to wood species, willow is the wood of choice for cricket bats, but persimmon used to be the preference when it came to drivers and fairway…