NRL: Luke Bateman re-signs with Canberra Raiders until 2018
Like a bantamweight boxer against heavyweights, Luke Bateman is used to compensating for a lack of size with grit.
Like a bantamweight boxer against heavyweights, Luke Bateman is used to compensating for a lack of size with grit.
After struggling all season against teams with older, more experienced players, Newcastle get a chance to play in their own age division when they take on Penrith on Sunday.
The more they seem the same, the more they seem different. James Tedesco and Jarryd Hayne's battle for the hearts and minds of south-western Sydney couldn't have been fought more differently.
Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy is unlikely to give injured prop Jordan McLean an early return when his side battle Canberra Raiders in Canberra on Monday night.
Where James Fisher-Harris is from if you're not fishing you're pig hunting. And when pig hunting is done you usually go back to fishing.
It may be two-and-a-half years since David Fusitu'a made his debut for the Warriors but it's been the last couple of weeks where he's truly come of age as a player.
Canterbury NRL winger Curtis Rona will switch to the 15-man code after signing with Super Rugby club the Western Force.
Canterbury Bulldogs made a giant stride towards a top four finish after claiming a nervous, ugly and tense win over Manly Sea Eagles at ANZ Stadium.
Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart wants 15,000 people at Canberra Stadium.
Jason Taylor's first act as an NRL coach was to launch the Hayne Plane. A decade on, the Wests Tigers coach needs to, at least temporarily, stall the trajectory of Jarryd Hayne.
Paul McGregor believes under-fire Benji Marshall has plenty to offer the NRL, even if it's not with St George Illawarra.
In November, rugby league faces possibly its most important decision in decades.
Shane Flanagan is set to become Cronulla's longest-serving coach after signing a two-year contract extension which will keep him at the NRL club until the end of 2019.
Reality television recruit Lou Goodwin will spend the next two months working as a carpenter, but he arrived in Canberra for the first day of his NRL journey to tell Raiders coach Ricky Stuart he's ready to prove himself.
Five days before helping the Wests Tigers slay the world's best player and the NRL premiers, Jack Littlejohn walked onto a building site as "the rock star". But the man who dedicates his days off to working on the tools wouldn't have it any other way.
They missed out with a late bid to secure Jarryd Hayne and need a new halfback, but Parramatta won't rush back into the player market to finalise their 2017 NRL roster.
If he's not giving Canberra Raiders fans lifts to games, five-eighth Blake Austin is spending his days off as an inspirational coach for visiting rugby league teams.
Senior NRL players will be entitled to up to eight weeks of annual leave as part of a raft of proposals designed to prevent burnout.
Raiders captain Jarrod Croker thinks winger Jordan Rapana has his sights set on Suliasi Vunivalu.
In another life and another time Mitchell Moses might have been donning blue and gold running out alongside Jarryd Hayne - not trying to shackle his rugby league second coming.
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