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29 Apr 09 | FOR the past four games, Knights coach Brian Smith has had three healthy halves to choose from but only two jerseys to hand out each weekend.
But injuries to Jarrod Mullen (shoulder) and Ben Roger...
29 Apr 09 | Knights hard man Ben Cross shed tears in the Campbelltown Stadium dressing rooms on Sunday, devastated by the realisation he had played his last NRL game this season.
The premiership-winning NSW O...
29 Apr 09 | Wendell Sailor handed mission for Dragon's showdown with Warriors - stop Manu.
29 Apr 09 | NSW coach says Jamie Lyon has shown he's prepared to play in the opening State of Origin match on June 3.
29 Apr 09 | EIGHTEEN months after declaring his interest in playing for Australia, Uruguayan-raised striker Richard Porta is still waiting for a phone call from Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek.
Porta, 25, was born...
29 Apr 09 | PAUL HART has steadied the ship at Portsmouth but Alan Shearer's Newcastle United are sinking fast. Shearer, the latest hand on the Toon tiller, had insisted that nothing less than victory would suffice and this disappointing draw was greeted with intense dismay.
29 Apr 09 | PRIME Television owner Paul Ramsay will be unveiled as the new chairman of Sydney FC in the next 24 hours as the Sky Blues complete a boardroom reshuffle intended to reinvigorate the under-achieving A-League club.
29 Apr 09 | CENTRAL COAST teenager Lachlan Staples has been added to the Australian swimming team for the world championships in Rome, to take the place left vacant by the expulsion of Nick D'Arcy.
Staples...
29 Apr 09 | AUSTRALIAN Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham and other elite divers competed before empty stands in the final leg of the Diving Grand Series last Friday and Saturday in Mexico City as fears escalated over the outbreak of swine flu.
29 Apr 09 | THE man recognised as the patent-holder of cricket's most controversial delivery, the off spinner's doosra, has offered his services to Australia as a coach.
29 Apr 09 | A one-on-one conversation with Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has helped pave the way for Waratahs prop Al Baxter to reject several lucrative overseas offers and extend his playing career in Australia.
29 Apr 09 | Kurtley Beale is back off the bench and wants to reignite the Waratahs, writes Rupert Guinness in Pretoria.
29 Apr 09 | QUEENSLAND origin stalwart Cameron Smith yesterday said Cooper Cronk should be viewed as more than just a third-string half-back after his Melbourne Storm teammate was named in the Maroons' prelim...
29 Apr 09 | He told nurses she had tripped over a coffee table. He told the police that she had been assaulted by another friend. And he told friends that it had all been an accident.
But a magistrate yesterd...
29 Apr 09 | Medical tests have cleared Penrith fullback Lachlan Coote of major damage after he was the victim of an alleged "crusher" tackle in Monday night's game against Gold Coast.
29 Apr 09 | Greg Bird will return to France to play for Catalans this weekend but his future in the NRL is in limbo after the former Cronulla and Australia Test star was yesterday convicted of assaulting his girlfriend and making a false accusation to police.
29 Apr 09 | Manly's stand-in fullback, Michael Robertson, makes no apologies for not being able to do what regular fullback Brett Stewart does from that position. And why should he?
28 Apr 09 | Former NRL star Greg Bird has been found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend and of making a false accusation to police.
28 Apr 09 | League star will soon learn his fate, with a Sydney magistrate saying he is satisfied there is a case against him.
28 Apr 09 | No evidence to prove that league star inflicted upon his girlfriend the cuts that were on her face, court told.