Stathi Paxinos
Stathi Paxinos covers rugby league, rugby union, boxing, swimming and Australian Rules football for The Age. He has covered numerous major sporting events including the Sydney Olympic Games (boxing), the 2003 Rugby World Cup, state of origin contests and NRL finals, world title fights and national swimming championships. Stathi also covered boxing and aquatics at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Rugby Union
Rebels probe Beale's latest slip
Stathi Paxinos Melbourne Rebels are investigating whether any of Kurtley Beale's teammates - including fellow Wallaby James O'Connor - were with the troubled star when he broke the conditions of his return to rugby...
Rugby Union
Beale stood down by Rebels
Stathi Paxinos Kurtley Beale has again been suspended, after the troubled star broke the conditions of his return to rugby by drinking alcohol the night after returning for the Melbourne Rebels and missing a...
Rugby Union
Tapuai fancied a Rebels move
Stathi Paxinos Queensland Reds inside-centre says he was tempted to return to the city where he grew up.
Rugby Union
Rebels again within sight but no reward
Stathi Paxinos The Rebels were left to rue what might have been following their third consecutive loss after holding a half-time lead.
Rebel Higginbotham still finding his feet
Stathi Paxinos SCOTT HIGGINBOTHAM was not quite sure how to take the first question he received following the Melbourne Rebels' 30-23 win over Western Force in Friday night's Super Rugby season opener.
Rugby Union
Mortlock to miss last home game
Stathi Paxinos Melbourne Rebels skipper Stirling Mortlock is set to miss his final game in Australia despite the club maintaining that the retiring veteran would be given until the last possible moment to be...
Red tide beats Rebels
Stathi Paxinos It was ultimately a night of disappointment for Melbourne as it went down 32-17 to the Reds.
Stirling says goodbye to home fans
Stathi Paxinos STIRLING Mortlock had been willing further damage his troublesome calf and miss the Melbourne Rebels' final two games of the season so that he could play his final game in Australia last night at...
Bad news for O'Connor, Gerrard to leave
Stathi Paxinos Stirling Mortlock took a chance so he could play the Rebels' last game at home this season.
Rugby Union
Don't quit, Lipman tells Chamberlain
Stathi Paxinos Retired Rebels forward Michael Lipman will tell ex-teammate Tom Chamberlain to play on.
Delve has no regrets over Rebels move
Stathi Paxinos Gareth Delve suffered the disappointment of missing out on Wales' World Cup team.
Rugby Union
Star rugby players in car crash
Stathi Paxinos Melbourne Rebels Danny Cipriani and Kurtley Beale and injured Wallaby and Queensland Reds star Quade Cooper believed to be involved in a car crash.
Rebels' defence failing
Stathi Paxinos Assistant coach John Muggleton has no illusion that improvement is needed against Reds.
Rugby Union
Rebels trio bedazzle Blues
Stathi Paxinos Move over Cameron Smith, Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk, the Melbourne Rebels' 34-23 win over the more-fancied Blues on Thursday has shown there could be a new ''Big Three'' in town.
Rugby
Fitting the Beale: Melbourne maestro takes to new spot at five-eighth
Stathi Paxinos KURTLEY BEALE'S Melbourne Rebels teammates do not doubt that the backline maestro could easily handle a switch to Test five-eighth after watching the difference he has made to the Super Rugby team.
Freier lines up for a century as Rebels meet Force
Stathi Paxinos Adam Freier has a casual way of describing one of the hardest milestones in Australian rugby.
Rugby Union
Wallabies to call on Beale to fill void
Stathi Paxinos Melbourne Rebels star Kurtley Beale may play two Tests for the Wallabies in five days.
