For more than four decades Raelene Castle's ritual has remained the same. State of Origin nights are spent parked up on the couch with her dad Bruce, with tension permeating the room. The stakes ...

Australia's National Rugby League is set to expand its sporting footprint more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) west of Sydney a year ahead of going a similar distance in another direction to ...

Papua New Guinea is rugby league mad. It’s the only country in the world where the sport is officially the national game. The ...

Australia's National Rugby League became one of the last professional contact sports to shut down in response to the spread of the coronavirus, suspending its 16-team competition on Monday. While ...

Players are picked from the NRL (National Rugby League), Australia's premier competition. The NRL Consists of 16 teams, most of which come from New South Wales due to the success of their original ...

LAS VEGAS — The moment before the real moment arrived Friday when two of the four National Rugby League teams playing in Saturday’s matches arrived inside Allegiant Stadium for the first time ...

LAS VEGAS — When Australia’s National Rugby League decided to try to expand its reach to the United States, it used a distinctly American sport as a model. The NFL annually plays regular ...

Australia's Josh Addo-Carr celebrates at the end of the Rugby League World Cup final match between Australia and Samoa at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's National Rugby League is set to expand its sporting footprint more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) west of Sydney a year ahead of going a similar distance in another… ...

A team in rugby league-mad Papua New Guinea is set to enter the NRL in 2028, making it a 19-team competition, with 20 clubs being the league’s ambition. Australia's National Rugby League is ...

Australia’s National Rugby League is set to expand its sporting footprint more than 3,000 kilometers (1,860 miles) west from Sydney a year ahead of going a similar distance in another direction ...