October 2024
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
Abdo says NRL’s our ‘most watched’ sport. Is he right?
Sunday’s clash between the Penrith Panthers and Melbourne Storm had fewer viewers than the AFL the week before. In other ways, though, the NRL is winning.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Panthers beat Storm for fourth consecutive premiership
Penrith have won a historic fourth consecutive NRL premiership, defeating Melbourne 14-6 in the grand final
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- Scott Bailey
Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Daniel Arbon
October 2023
Bookmaker may be buying time on historic payout, racing CEO says
The top Queensland racing executive and ex-Ladbrokes CEO said the delay of Betr’s record payout could limit how many people withdraw cash from accounts.
- Mark Di Stefano
Cleary steers Penrith to third straight NRL title
Penrith became the first team in 40 years to win three straight National Rugby League titles in a grand final thriller on Sunday.
- Reuters
September 2023
Bookmaker faces largest payout in sports gambling history
Sunday might be payday for tens of thousands of gamblers who have been sitting on potentially lucrative 100-1 bets on the Panthers for almost a year.
- Mark Di Stefano and Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘Bleeds for Broncos’: how the NRL’s richest club came back
Only three years after hitting rock bottom, the Brisbane Broncos are again chasing rugby league’s biggest prize.
- Michael Pelly
Footy’s weirdest gimmicks – from Power bands to Deep Heat facials
Rugby league players and their coaches can be as vulnerable to fads as the rest of the population. But like most pre-game rituals, they’re psychological.
- Glen Humphries
The bipartisan assault on sports betting advertising
This week on The Fin podcast, media writers Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano take us inside the crackdown on gambling ads and what it means for the future of our biggest sporting codes.
October 2022
Major sport events need to be protected from streamers: expert
Online streamers should not have more access to major sporting events now on the list because services are still less accessible to Australians than free-to-air TV, says academic David Rowe.
- Edmund Tadros
Fight begins over access to major sporting events
Potential changes to sports broadcasting rules could lead to big events disappearing from free-to-air broadcasters and moving to subscription streaming services such as Foxtel, Amazon Prime and Stan.
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- Edmund Tadros
Battle of western Sydney NRL grand final fails to draw big TV crowd
Sunday’s one-sided NRL grand final between the two western Sydney teams attracted just 2.8 million viewers, one of the lowest viewing figures on record.
- Edmund Tadros
September 2022
The battle to become ‘Kings of the West’
Sunday’s match pits the Paramatta Eels, a team on the brink of financial ruin six years ago, against the reigning premiers, the Penrith Panthers, in a sold-out match that marks the game’s return to Sydney.
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- Edmund Tadros
How Megan Davis became the voice of The Voice
The constitutional law professor and NRL commissioner is looking forward to a time when she can stop being an activist.
- Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- Opinion
Rugby league’s battle of western Sydney tells Australia’s story
The ugly duckling to Sydney’s inner suburbs for half a century, the region is steadily shedding its cultural cringe.
- Tanveer Ahmed
‘The people’s beer’ owned by Nathan Cleary, Tai Tuivasa
A new brewery will open in late 2022, with two UFC fighters big shareholders alongside the Penrith Panthers star who has an 8 per cent stake.
- Simon Evans
August 2022
NRL grand final to be played in Sydney
The 2022 NRL grand final will be played in Sydney after a last-minute pitch from the NSW government kept it in its traditional home. But the event may be up for auction to the highest bidder from next year.
- Scott Bailey
October 2021
Brisbane records new mystery COVID-19 case, but no lockdown
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Brisbane would go into lockdown if there was a new unlinked coronavirus case, but it hasn’t.
- Mark Ludlow
AMP to kick off reputation revival with grand final ad
Troubled wealth giant AMP will use this weekend’s NRL Grand Final as a platform to rebuild its relationship and re-introduce itself to the public.
- Aleks Vickovich