Roy Masters is a Sports Columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald
Up to 10 player managers, representing most of rugby league's elite players, face possible criminal prosecution and NRL de-registration, following a joint NSW Police/Integrity Unit investigation into the Parramatta salary cap breaches.
She called him 'Reggie'; his teammates knew him as 'Gaz' and the rugby league world referred to him as 'Puff', as in the Magic Dragon.
When Craig Bellamy came to Melbourne 13 years ago to coach the Storm, he asked a staffer to paint two slogans on the walls of the gymnasium of the club's then Olympic Park headquarters.
A Sydney team in an AFL grand final at the MCG and a Melbourne team in the NRL grand final at ANZ stadium would suggest the cultural and recreational differences between Australia's two biggest cities are blurring.
Storm centre Cheyse Blair arrived at AAMI Park for the preliminary final match against the Raiders with a miniature Distinguished Flying Cross pinned to the right chest of his polo shirt.
John Singleton once offered to shout Ron Massey a lunch where he could invite his 10 best mates.
There is a little game being played in the lead-up to this weekend's preliminary finals. Two coaches are playing it; two are not.
If you were given a dollar for everyone who asked Craig Bellamy for a selfie or an autograph at the MCG Friday night, or shouted "Go Storm" as he walked past, you would have enough money to buy something really pricey ... like a ticket to the AFL grand final.
This year's grand final could be won by a team deliberating conceding a penalty, rather than a try, when desperately defending its own 20 metre zone.
She was, in my experience, the greatest partner of a footballer ever.
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