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State of Origin
On AFL grounds, rugby league’s best kickers can get ‘lost’ in Origin
Since the NRL started taking a match to non-traditional states each year, the game’s best kickers have grappled with playing on AFL grounds. Does an oval field make a difference?
- by Adam Pengilly
NRL
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He’s been to rugby league hell. This is what Mitchell Moses learnt in ‘rugby league heaven’
Mitchell Moses has had a seat at the table during a rugby league masterclass. Now it’s his time to produce one for NSW.
- by Adrian Proszenko
Insight & Analysis
‘I don’t know how he doesn’t collapse’: Lani awed by Payne’s strength in adversity
Origin star Payne Haas is carrying the hopes of his state – and the future of his daughter and younger brothers – on his broad shoulders with a heavy sadness in his heart.
Danny Weidler
Sport columnist
Chinese doping scandal has muddied the waters for clean athletes in Paris
Athletes lining up at next month’s Olympics, with no known doping skeletons in the closet, face a harsh reality of the unknown unknowns.
Darren Kane
Sports Columnist
What new TAB boss Gillon McLachlan really said – straight from the horse’s mouth
The former AFL chief may have baffled with BS when spruiking his new gambling role, but Iet me put it in plain English.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Cricket
Soccer
Fans seeking selfies stop game six times as ‘slapstick’ own goal helps Portugal
A howler own-goal from Turkey was just one moment of a chaotic Portugal win in the Euros, with the game repeatedly stopped by pitch invaders trying to get a snap with Cristiano Ronaldo.
- by James Ducker
Updated
European Championships
What we’ve learnt from the first round of matches at Euro 2024
Cristiano Ronaldo has still got it, Germany have got it again, Belgium still don’t have it (and never will), and the English have a new song to sing (thank heavens).
- by Vince Rugari
Analysis
European Championships
And the winner is … Robotinho predicts the Euro 2024 champions
- by Robotinho, Mark Stehle and Emma Kemp
AFL
Updated
Match report
Perfect 10: Swans’ premiership charge runs straight over Giants
- by Jonathan Drennan
Basketball
Updated
NBA
‘A lot of history’: Giddey becomes fifth Australian to join the Chicago Bulls
Australian guard Josh Giddey has a new NBA home, and will soon be eligible for a lucrative rookie-scale contract extension.
- by Jon Pierik
Opinion
Paris 2024
‘I was going to throw red wine in his face’: Boomers coach Goorjian’s staunch defence of Giddey
The national men’s basketball coach insists the point-guard has come out the other side of the scandal that has shadowed him this NBA season.
- by Andrew Webster
Racing
Also in Sport
3D-printed clubs and salty balls: Will golf’s Mad Scientist change the game?
Bryson DeChambeau is an eccentric golfer who uses his career like one big science experiment. And after winning another US Open, it’s working.
- by Iain Payten
Updated
Wimbledon
Tomljanovic optimistic ahead of Wimbledon despite falling short in Birmingham
The Australian will head to Wimbledon – where she is a dual quarter-finalist – hungry for success after a run to the final at the Birmingham Classic.
- by Marc McGowan
Exclusive
Olympics
See you in court: Australian Olympic medal hopeful banned for seven years
- by Chris Barrett
