League
Sonny Bill fights in Benji, Cooper corner
Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams has leapt to the defence of fellow Kiwi superstar Benji Marshall and out-of-favour Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper and predicted the pair would prove their critics wrong.
League
How News lost the game
Brad Walter MANLY and South Sydney players had just finished a game so brutal that four judiciary charges would stem from it - but the hostilities were put aside when senior members of both teams met afterwards.
Winning Starts Monday
Dragons are genuine title contenders - for 2014
Brad Walter Just a few weeks ago, St George Illawarra were considered little more than a rabble. But they have now emerged as premiership contenders - next season.
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SBW in Dragons' sights - all in charity's name, of course
Brad Walter Sydney Roosters officials have been assured they have nothing to fear after a member of St George Illawarra chief executive Peter Doust's staff successfully bid for a lunch with Sonny Bill Williams...
Anzac Test to remain an Origin appetiser
Brad Walter THE mid-season Test between Australia and New Zealand is likely to continue to be played before State of Origin, despite the Kiwis not having won it for 15 years.
League
Greenberg: we'll keep SBW and get Folau
Brad Walter Todd Greenberg, the man who insisted Sonny Bill Williams be banished from rugby league for five years after walking out on the Bulldogs, has vowed to help keep the All Blacks star in the game when he...
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Six of the best proposed for expanded club challenge
Brad Walter The World Club Challenge is set to be expanded to six teams under a proposal that would also result in three NRL sides playing a warm-up match each against a Super League club.
Winning Starts Monday
Pearce is obvious choice for Daley
Brad Walter There can be no more compelling reason for new Blues coach Laurie Daley to stick with Mitchell Pearce at halfback than the damage he risks to two State of Origin careers by choosing Adam Reynolds for...
League
Chiefs coach sure Williams will return to New Zealand
Brad Walter, Michael Carayannis Chiefs coach Dave Rennie plans to meet Sonny Bill Williams when the Super Rugby champions play in Sydney next week, in an attempt to lure the Roosters star back to New Zealand.
League
SBW all smiles as Bulldogs fans line up to take a shot of former idol
Brad Walter As Sonny Bill Williams stopped to pose for a yet another photo with a well-wisher on the main street of Lakemba, a passer-by tried to intervene.
Sin Bin
Benji's injury saves Kiwi selectors from having to toe the line
Brad Walter Benji Marshall's toe injury may have saved the New Zealand selectors from another tough decision about the Wests Tigers star.
League
SBW has taken the punches, now footy can do the talking
Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams has put the Bulldogs walk-out behind him.
Man of the moment plays down title talk
Brad Walter After helping the Roosters to a record 38-0 defeat of the team he walked out on five years ago, Sonny Bill Williams played down talk that his presence would lead the club to a premiership.
League
Sheens picks mobility around ruck
Brad Walter New Zealand hooker Issac Luke's speed out of dummy half has prompted the Kangaroos selectors to choose just two specialist props for next Friday night's Test at Canberra Stadium.
The statistics don't lie - SBW really can do it all, and from any position
Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams isn't quite back to where he was before he quit the NRL in 2008, but after his stunning performance in the Roosters' 50-0 defeat of Parramatta on Monday, it appears only a matter...
Winning Starts Monday
Bulldogs jostle for position among elite
Brad Walter After just three rounds, the NRL has already split into the haves and have nots, and the best chance some teams appear to have of making the finals is if players from Cronulla and Manly are suspended...
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Sharks Unity in disarray after eligibility rule comes into play
Brad Walter OLYMPIAN Damian Keogh's bid to become Cronulla chairman has hit an eligibility hurdle as neither he nor six other members of the nine-man Sharks Unity ticket are football club members.
League
Dual World Cups a lure for SBW
Brad Walter Sonny Bill Williams will return to Test football for New Zealand in two weeks in a move that may lead to the Sydney Roosters superstar becoming the first player to win World Cups in rugby league and...
Souths in great shape, but Sutton is cautious
Brad Walter South Sydney veteran John Sutton believes the Rabbitohs have never been better prepared to begin an NRL season, but he rubbished suggestions the club deserved premiership favouritism.
League
Yes, Sonny will play - off the bench
Brad Walter SONNY Bill Williams has been cleared to make one of the most eagerly awaited comebacks in rugby league history and will start on the interchange bench for Sydney Roosters in Thursday night's NRL...
