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GOLD COAST: The class of 2017 graduated with flying colours for North Queensland as the injury-hit Cowboys held out the Gold Coast Titans for a 32-26 win in Saturday night's NRL clash.

Sharks coach Shane Flanagan has revealed he used fake stats during the week to motivate his players to a 20-6 victory over the Parramatta Eels an ANZ Stadium on Saturday.

After the retirement of legendary fullback Brett Stewart in 2016, 20-year-old Tom Trbojevic is relishing the chance to shine as the club's new fulltime custodian.

Raiders hooker Josh Hodgson faces race against time to be fit, while Elliott Whitehead faces a one-match ban.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart says chief minister's comments highlight the importance of keeping the Brumbies in Canberra.

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For weeks now Wayne Bennett has tried to laugh off our early-season report that he has lost his aura. Now he is making news for calling police because he thinks that News Corp has been staking him out as a photographer tries to snap photos of him and his new partner.

Tim Simona had five pages and an accompanying video to tell his story. You know the one: where he bet on other teams, rorted charities, took cocaine, fed pokies and forced a woman to have an abortion. But when his former partner, Jaya Taki, told her side of the story last week he decided to send me a tweet: "Are you done yet champ?"

A Daly Cherry-Evans masterclass lifted the Sea Eagles to their first home win of the year, crushing the Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon.

In the week that he was sacked by Wests Tigers, Jason Taylor made his first public appearance at a function hosted by the other club that punted him.

Isaac De Gois could be the latest player forced into premature retirement due to concussion as the game prepares to transition to a new SCAT5 protocol to better assess head knocks.

Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston and James Maloney are among the most influential playmakers on the field and one of them is tipped to be thrust into a presidential role off it.

Kieran Foran is back but will he be enough to convert the Warriors from basket cases to contenders?

Dale Finucane thought it was just common decency but his phone call to Craig Bellamy in 2011 set the foundation for his career at the club.

Jason Taumalolo's staggering $10 million, 10-year contract is unlikely to be the last eye-popping, decade-long deal signed off by an NRL club, insists Cowboys general manager of football Peter Parr.

The amount of times referees are relying on the NRL Bunker has been slashed by as much as a quarter this season as the often maligned central review system takes a back seat to on-field officials.

Ivan Cleary, the man most likely to take over as coach at Wests Tigers, moved Tim Grant on from Penrith. Grant reckons he was right to do so.

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Canberra sports fans now have two chances of getting a new stadium in Civic - Buckley's and none.

Bryson Goodwin knows he'll never get the chance to ask him now, but he hopes he made his older brother Leon proud.

Another night, another one-point game at Suncorp Stadium. But this time the man that delivered the winning blow wasn't the real hero as the Broncos edged out the Raiders 13-12.