Grand Final hero Andrew Fifita has today been fined $20,000 by the NRL for his continued on-field support of convicted killer Kieran Loveridge. 

NSW Blues legend believes if the Canberra Raiders continue their winning ways then they'll be rewarded at Origin time.

Melbourne halfback Cooper Cronk has been named this year's Rugby League Golden Boot winner for the world's best player.

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While terrorism, Brexit and Donald Trump divided a big chunk of the globe's population this year, it was neither a vintage nor disastrous year for the 13-a-side code. If you support Cronulla, it was the greatest season of your life. Leeds, not so much. If you're an expansionist, the granting of the 2025 World Cup to North America will be the most exciting news in years. Anthony Milford being barred from representing Samoa for no good reason – not so good.

Make-A-Wish Australia and the Canberra Raiders give young fan a dose of Christmas cheer.

If you're old enough, you're good enough. At least in Brad Fittler's mind. And he wants the halfback who emerged from the same school as he did, as well as a pair of Wests Tigers young guns, to become potential solutions to NSW's never-ending playmaking dilemma.

Compromise with Australian Rugby League Commission will also help them continue with development programs.

There is a near $1 million gulf between the salaries of the NRL's highest paid coaches including Craig Bellamy and Wayne Bennett to those at the bottom of the pay scale. But that is about to change.

While the Maroons have dominated the State of Origin series this past decade, Brisbane based John Grant has ruled off field for half this period as chairman of the autocratic ARLC.

NRL clubs will receive grants at 130 per cent of the salary cap, but will have to drastically curb football department spending after a day of marathon talks over how the record $1.8 billion broadcast deal spared John Grant's job in the shadows of Christmas.

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Allegedly, rugby league never sleeps. It might have just developed a cure for its own insomnia.

A New York judge has declined to send former Wests Tigers prop Matthew Lodge back to Rikers Island jail, instead making him a free man and setting up a likely return to his lucrative NRL career.

Matt Ballin has vowed to return to the NRL pitch and face off against the man whose place he took at the Wests Tigers - Robbie Farah.

Australian Rugby League Commission chairman John Grant's future will hinge on whether the beleaguered administrator can conjure a Christmas miracle on the morning disgruntled clubs plan to take his scalp over the bitter funding feud.

The NRL has long resisted pressure to ban lifting tackles even in the wake of the Alex McKinnon incident, instead promising harsher penalties for illegal versions of it. There might have been a reason why.

Zak Hardaker has taken aim at former Penrith teammate Jamie Soward over his claims the English Super League competition was "10 years behind the NRL".

Former Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon has reportedly launched legal proceedings against the NRL for the tackle that left him paralysed in 2014.

One of the Cronulla Sharks' longest-serving players in the modern era has added to the legal drama surrounding the club after joining ex-teammates in suing the premiers over the supplements scandal.

Connor Watson has re-signed with the Sydney Roosters until at least the end of the 2018 NRL season.