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Sharks in Vegas

In Vegas, the temptations are big and the field is small. So how are NRL clubs preparing?

It’s not unusual for visitors to Las Vegas to lose all concept of time and space. That’s not ideal when there is a game of football to be won.

  • Adrian Proszenko

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Penrith’s Nathan Cleary and Cronulla’s Sione Katoa ahead of their Las Vegas showdown.

Everything you need to know ahead of the NRL’s Las Vegas opener

From team lists to expert predictions, we’ve put together an easy guide to the NRL’s Las Vegas matches.

  • Billie Eder
Nicho Hynes and Nathan Cleary will feature in Las Vegas this weekend.

‘The Sharks will get them’: How our experts see the Las Vegas clashes playing out

Rugby league reporters Michael Chammas, Adrian Proszenko and Billie Eder unpack the matches in Las Vegas this weekend.

  • Billie Eder, Adrian Proszenko and Michael Chammas
Addin Fonua-Blake: the missing puzzle piece for Cronulla?

Why Sharks can upset Penrith, Walsh can win a Dally M and heavyweights will fall

The NRL season will start with a pair of upsets in Las Vegas, before a pair of Queensland clubs rise up the ladder and two Sydney powerhouses slide down it.

  • Andrew Johns
Connecticut Wildcats 2005 grand final team. Current New Zealand Warriors coach Andrew Webster is second row, second from the left.

The Aussie NRL coach who wound up playing league in Connecticut 20 years ago

Warriors coach Andrew Webster is in Las Vegas for the NRL season opener this week, but rugby league brought him to the United States for the first time back in 2005.

  • Billie Eder
Panthers playmaker Blaize Talagi.

Star Panthers duo to miss Vegas opener as brawling Raiders named to start

Rookie playmaker Jack Cole will partner Nathan Cleary in the halves for Penrith, while Ricky Stuart has named Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies in his side after their hotel fracas.

  • Billie Eder
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James Fisher-Harris

‘I represent hard’: Why Maori jersey means the world to Fisher-Harris

Having stunned Penrith by returning to New Zealand, James Fisher-Harris says representing the Maori All Stars trumps the World Club Challenge or a trip to Las Vegas.

  • Christian Nicolussi
Siona Katoa celebrates scoring the Sharks first try.

As it happened: Sharks, Warriors fight out draw in first NRL trial

The 2025 season begins with the first trial match out at Shark Park tonight. Follow all the action.

  • Billie Eder and Frances Howe
Star Sharks signing Addin Fonua-Blake.

‘Dirty on myself’: The dressing-room walkout that speaks volumes about Fonua-Blake

Cronulla’s star recruit wanted no part of the celebrations after the Warriors’ shock win over Penrith in 2024. It says a lot about what drives the elite prop.

  • Dan Walsh
NRL trials: Cameron Ciraldo, Latrell Mitchell and Jarome Luai

What your club is hoping to learn from the NRL trials

Houses have been trained down and cliches trotted out after every single player’s pre-season has been the toughest in the long, sweaty history of tough pre-seasons. Now the games begin.

  • Dan Walsh and Adrian Proszenko

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