Chicago Cubs, Greg Norman and now NSW
July is the hardest month for NSW Blues fans. You spend most of it searching in vain for reasons you were so optimistic back in May. Those reasons will come back to you, but not until May next year.
July is the hardest month for NSW Blues fans. You spend most of it searching in vain for reasons you were so optimistic back in May. Those reasons will come back to you, but not until May next year.
What is the formula for elite sporting success? A new book claims to have the answer.
'Did Jarryd Hayne lose us the Origin series?' This was the first call I received on Thursday morning. No preamble, no commiserations, straight into it. The very first call.
For the student of rugby league, the game's appeal lies in how it embraces the whole curriculum: physics, psychology, history, and ultimately, and miserably if you are from New South Wales, mathematics.
This promised to be a strange hole-in-the-doughnut kind of Origin, more noteworthy for absences than the thing in itself.
Mark Donaldson might be the smallest man on the team, but he is there because the footballers, hearing his stories, look up to him as to a giant.
And so to rugby league's festival of sado-masochism. The sado- for Queensland, the masochism for NSW.
After a rep weekend that was a triple feature of Boogie Nights and Blow, it's time to be honest about cocaine's problem as it pertains to rugby league.
Even if you are not religious in any way, questions must be asked about business-as-usual on the last sports-free days of the year.
A week is a long time in rugby league, but under the laws of the game, five days is even longer.
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