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Origin selection live: Luai firms for No.7 as Latrell set to miss out
Get all the latest news as the Blues and Maroons Origin I squads are finalised along with live updates from Sunday afternoon’s NRL games.
- by Michael Chammas, Adam Pengilly and Dan Walsh
‘Ready to rock’: Cleary mentorship has Luai confident about Blues No.7 role
- by Christian Nicolussi
Analysis
A-League Men
Miracle Mariners: Is this the greatest team Australian soccer has ever seen?
- by Vince Rugari
NRL
Blues blow for Hynes but Luai steps up in push for No.7 role
NSW coach Michael Maguire arrived in Cronulla hoping to watch his side’s next playmaker – he just thought it would be Nicho Hynes, not Jarome Luai.
- by Christian Nicolussi
‘We were the best team in the world’: Why Maguire’s Kiwis triumph should give Blues fans hope
Few expected Michael Maguire’s New Zealand to defeat the Kangaroos last November. They won 30-0. Some key players from that Kiwis side believe he can get a similar performance out of NSW.
- by Christian Nicolussi
‘Give Des a chance’: David Fifita opens up on why he snubbed the Roosters
- by Christian Nicolussi, Billie Eder, Dan Walsh and Adam Pengilly
Analysis
NRL 2024
No-fault stand-down policy isn’t perfect, but NRL has little alternative
- by Darren Kane
Cowboys 42 Tigers 28
NRL 2024
Payten ‘gobsmacked’ by hip-drop call as Holmes faces nervous Origin wait
- by Chris Nicholson and Christian Nicolussi
Insight & Analysis
‘It’s a blank canvas to revisit my approach’: Why Nathan Cleary can no longer be NRL’s hardest trainer
The Penrith superstar has a reputation for being rugby league’s most fastidious trainer. Then another hamstring injury changed everything.
Adrian Proszenko
Chief Rugby League Reporter
We asked data nerds to pick the NSW Origin team. Here is who they selected
The team have been in the lab crunching the numbers, our experts have their say and we also get AI on board for the NSW campaign.
Dan Walsh
Sports Reporter
There is one Rabbitoh NSW must pick for Origin … and it’s not Latrell
Origin can bring out the best in players looking to escape the dramas at their club. Michael Maguire can do that with South Sydney’s mercurial star.
Andrew Johns
League columnist
Rugby Union
Moana Pasifika 27 Waratahs 12
Super Rugby
Worst season ever? Waratahs go from bad to worse in loss to Moana Pasifika
- by Tom Decent
Analysis
Super Rugby
The Eddie-shaped shadow hanging over a Cheika rescue mission at Waratahs
- by Iain Payten
Cricket
Analysis
India
‘It’s almost a no-win role’: Why you won’t see an Australian as India’s $2 million coach
- by Daniel Brettig
Soccer
Analysis
A-League Men
Miracle Mariners: Is this the greatest team Australian soccer has ever seen?
Before the Central Coast Mariners even had a chance to compute that they had just won the treble, they were swarmed by a pitch invasion.
- by Vince Rugari
Matildas star has won two Champions Leagues but still hopes third time’s a charm
It has been both the shortest and longest four years since Ellie Carpenter signed with Lyon. This weekend, she will play Barcelona for a third Champions League winner’s medal.
- by Emma Kemp
Updated
Friendlies
Irankunda wants Socceroos call-up; Matildas stars escape exhibition match unscathed
- by Anna Harrington and Marnie Vinall
AFL
Basketball
NBA closes investigation into Josh Giddey’s alleged relationship with underage girl
The NBA has ended its investigation into Australian basketball star Josh Giddey for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a teenager, ESPN reported on Thursday.
Rivalling the Dream Team: NBA superstars bound for ‘an Olympics like no other’
LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama and the NBA’s superstars are all lining up for Paris 2024 and Brian Goorjian knows he will need a gritty Boomers team to stare down an Olympic field like no other.
- by Roy Ward
Racing
Also in Sport
Adam Walton learnt tennis at a racetrack. Now he’s at Roland-Garros
Australian Adam Walton broke into world tennis’ top 100 last week. His childhood introduction to tennis will take some beating.
- by Marc McGowan
‘We support Peter’: Bol’s Olympic place secure despite revelations in anti-doping hearing
Athletics Australia says Peter Bol’s spot at Paris 2024 will not be affected by the revelations that included the discovery of a screenshot of doping information on his phone.
- by Michael Gleeson
