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Paul Kent is a Senior Writer for the Telegraph, CODE Sports and the co-host of NRL360 on Fox League. He specialises in covering NRL but has also covered multiple Olympic Games, soccer World Cups, Rugby World Cups, tennis Grand Slams and golf majors. For two years he was News Corps’ European correspondent in the London Bureau.

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Opinion

Newcastle's James McManus with the name of injured player Alex McKinnon written on his jersey before the round 4 rugby league match between the Newcastle Knights and Cronulla Sharks at Hunter Stadium in Newcastle. Pic Brett Costello

McManus concussion case a headache for NRL

JAMES McManus’s legal action against the Newcastle Knights over concussion shines a light on the NRL’s unclear player welfare policies. LIVE BLOG with Paul Kent from 1pm.

Boxing/MMA

Danny Green and Anthony Mundine fight presser at Adelaide Oval with Sports Minister Leon Bignell - pic Mike Burton

One way Mundine v Green can match the hype

PAUL KENT: Beware Anthony Mundine and Danny Green. It is far more difficult putting together a great fight, as opposed to putting two great fighters together.

NRL

NRL CEO Todd Greenberg announces the 2017 NRL season draw at League Central, Driver Avenue, Moore Park Picture : Gregg Porteous

Kent: Weak leadership killing the game

THE NFL trials, Semi Radradra, the state of bush footy and the game edging toward civil war all point to someone being asleep at the wheel at the NRL.

NRL

ARL Commission chairman John Grant after Damien Keogh of Cronulla, Laurence Lancini North QLD, Ray Dib of the Bulldogs and Bart Campbell of Melbourne Storm stormed out of an NRL meeting at League Central, Sydney. Picture: Brett Costello

Why NRL clubs turned on ARL Commission

HIDDEN deep within the angry fallout between the NRL and its clubs was a genuine fear the Commission could send the game broke, writes PAUL KENT.

Cricket

Axe Hobart, give Sydney extra day-night Test

FAREWELL HOBART. It is time to take the dinky little Test in a dinky little town away from Hobart and give Sydney a second summer Test, writes Paul Kent.

Opinion

Daily Telegraph Sport Columnist Paul Kent dinkus

Pampered cricketers don’t deliver results

GREAT sporting teams like the All Blacks have cottoned on to the fact that greatness doesn’t come from being handed everything on a platter. Paul Kent says Australian teams needs to adapt.

NRL

The real reason behind Bennett’s silence

WATCH as Wayne Bennett opens up on his relationship with Mal Meninga and the English media in an EXCLUSIVE interview with Daily Telegraph journalist Michael Carayannis.

Eels

Watmough, Eels headed for $1.2m legal stoush

ANTHONY Watmough and the Eels are headed for a $1.2 million legal showdown, with the former Test forward prepared to return to pre-season training in order to receive his promised payout.

Opinion

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 02: Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga watches on during the Australia Kangaroos Test team photo session at Crowne Plaza Coogee on May 2, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

Mal sets the bar high for his new Roos

PAUL KENT: There is more to being a Kangaroo than putting on a football jumper and playing a game. Mal Meninga knows that. Now his players do too.

NRL

Shark's Andrew Fifita gets past Storm's Tohu Harris during the 2016 NRL Grand Final between the Cronulla Sharks and the Melbourne Storm at ANZ Stadium , Homebush . Picture : Gregg Porteous

Live Blog: NRL’s trouble with Fifita

THE NRL dodged one bullet on Sunday night. The embarrassment for the game was that Andrew Fifita was there in the first place, live blog with PAUL KENT from 1pm.

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