By Anthony Sharwood

In a startling and unprovoked piece of scapegoating, rugby league suit Geoff Garr telephoned Qld Origin star Greg Inglis this weekend to apologise “on behalf of the game” for the Andrew Johns racial slur

Sick of being ignored by TV executives and just about everyone else in the game, the Canberra Raiders want payback.

Even the Wests Tigers’ mercurial star isn’t sure what he’ll do next - only that it will be only that it will be the best thing you’ve ever seen. Benji graced the cover of Alpha’s April issue and told us that this year, he’ll be like nothing we’ve ever seen.…

Think you know footy tipping? Then why do you keep coming 5783rd in your comp? Let Alpha set you on the road to tipping heaven… With the NRL and AFL seasons almost upon us, Alpha has fortuitously stumbled across an ancient parchment. Feasteth thine eyes upon it, and you too…

As the Bucket leafed anxiously through his Big Annual of Rugby League Stuff trying to find out who the hell Ben Creagh and Trent Waterhouse are, he realised he’d been wrong all along. As late as Wednesday mid-morning snack-time, I was arguing to have dead rubbers scrapped. Who cares? How…

A number of leading brands have moved to radically increase the amount of free coverage they get in newspapers and on the telly, while radically reducing the amount of money they have to spend. Marketing, PR and admen everywhere are quietly celebrating this brilliant new strategy, that features rugby league…

There can’t be too many clubs who fell off a cliff quite so fast after a grand final than Manly. When they ground Melbourne into the turf 40-zip last year, not many watching could have believed they’d spend the next six months taking a large sidearm and shooting themselves repeatedly…

The global recession is striking everywhere, including the NRL, where after years of booming effort, things are clearly on the decline. Throughout the crazy times of the nineties and noughties, the amount of effort required by coaches rose from a cautious 100 per cent to 110 and even 120 per…