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The article presents information on the greatest moments in the history of rugby league football team North Queensland bask with specific reference to thier maiden premiership win over the Broncos in 2015. It include the North Queensland Cowboys' competitive force in the Winfield Cup in 1995; their big-name off-season purchases in 2003 and their comeback win over Penrith Panthers team in 1998.

The article focuses on 10 memorable moments in the history of the rugby league team South Sydney Rabbitohs. Topics discussed include the victory of the team over Western Suburbs Magpies in 1932, failing to win a single semi-final between the period 1940-1943 and defeating Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in 1968 winning the 18th title.

Presents information on luge riders in Australia. Background on the riders; History of street luging; Information on the safety measures in street luge racing.

The article presents several developments related to different rugby football teams in Australia and New Zealand. Kiwi winger Gary Tupou was the talking point at Broncos training last week when the giant speedster cast a shadow not seen at Red Hill since the departure of Wallabies Lote Tuqiri and Wendell Sailor. Rugby football team Cronulla Sharks' centre Paul Franze readily admits he felt like he was starting again after returning from a serious knee injury recently. Rugby football player Brett Finch isn't getting ahead of himself even though he has produced his best form in his team Sydney Roosters colours in recent weeks.

The article presents developments related to rugby football as of March 24, 2004. New Castle Knights player Kurt Gidley is relishing the opportunity to play alongside the world's greatest player. Senior Newcastle players have praised the early-season form of David Seage, Todd Lowrie and Matt Kennedy—the trio of young guns who started the year with just 22 NRL games between them. The rugby football team Saint George Illawara Dragons players will play in a new design costume during their match against Penrith Panthers. Parramatta Eels legend Brett Kenny has turned his hand to coaching and is enjoying the challenge of guiding the fortunes of arch-rivals Penrith in the SG Ball Cup.

This article presents information on various developments related to rugby football in Australia. Rugby team Panthers chief executive Shane Richardson concedes there's an ulterior motive for moving April 2004's grand final replay against the Roosters to Telstra Stadium. Versatile rugby player Daniel Fitzhenry has set himself the goal of playing for the rugby team Country Origin in 2004. Originally from Macksville on the North Coast, New South Wales, 24-year-old Fitzhenry is in his third season of National Rugby League and feels the time is right to push for higher honours.

This article analyses performance of various rugby football teams in 2003. Beating the Brisbane Broncos in Brisbane is always a match to savour and Manly Warringah Sea Eagles achieved that feat in fine style in round 20. In an unpredictable game, the Sea Eagles triumphed 26-20, with winger Scott Donald producing an eye-catching performance that included a series of long bursts. There were also occasions when the team didn't perform well, particularly in the last month of the season as the Eagles appeared to lose interest. They conceded 50 or more points in each of their last four home games. INSETS: Slip, slop, slap;From Crowe to woe;Danny boy on song;Life after Joey: brace yourself

The article focuses on the controversial stories involving rugby football players in Australia. Newcastle footballer Scott Mitchell suffered a gunshot wound in the neck while playing at Lorn in Mailtland, New South Wales in 1984. A referee during the 1994 semi-finals between the Wests and Macquarie football teams awarded a scrum to Macquarie after Wests winger Peter Jenner accidentally collided with a Macquarie trainer.

The article focuses on the reasons underlying the decisions of former National Rugby League (NRL) stars in Australia to return or leave NRL. The players cited inclued Roy Bell, Craig Field, Daniel Dumas and Grant Wooden. Among the reasons influencing the players are to escape depression, and to seek for redemption, revival and relationship. Meanwhile, Roy Bell, who is figthing his way back to the NRL, shares that he wanted to give opportunities to his son and be a role model for the kids.

The article focuses on rugby football fan George Anthony Tonna. Tonna suffers from cerebral palsy. He has cheered rugby football teams in England, Malta, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. He is a motivational speaker in his spare time. He is married and the father of two children. According to Jeff Preston, a soldier and rugby player, Tonna inspires other people.

The article presents the author's views on the performance of rugby football team Newcastle Knights in a final match with Brisbane Broncos. The author says that the match against the Broncos was one of the worst matches of the season for Knights. He says that 2006 has been a great year for him too.

The article reports on mental depression and several high-profile persons who suffered from mental depression. Pilot Brett Luton is one such person who undergone mental depression and attempted suicide. The author refers to a statistics according to which nearly 20% people suffer depression in Australia.

The article presents information on various rugby football players of the team Penrith Panthers. Penrith veterans have insisted that Paul Clarke should never be selected in the team. One of the toughest defenders the game has seen is Chris Mortimer. Dave Applebee was a fiery centre. He was dismissed from the game several times.

This article focuses on rugby football player Michael Crocker. Crocker is a member of the rugby football team Melbourne Storm. Since arriving in Melbourne, Victoria, he has undergone a big change. He has become more mature. He loves Melbourne. Craig Bellamy, the coach of the Melbourne Storm, says that Crocker is a passionate footballer.

The article presents information related to Rugby League football player Chris Binge. Binge's story begins some 450 kilometer west of his life in Lismore, New South Wales, back on the dusty Mehi mission in outback Moree, Bottom Mission to locals. Some nights Chris, his mother and younger brother Johnny Binge would huddle together behind a locked bedroom door, praying the monster and his mates partying in the kitchen would pass out before the violence erupted. Chris says he now shares a magic relationship with his mother and father Gary Binge, who no longer drinks or takes drugs. The men also attend counselling sessions together as part of the healing process.

The article presents the author's experience with various famous and infamous former Rugby League football players in Dubbo. In his road trip to Dubbo with Matt Logue and Adam Burnett he first met Barry Rushworth in Hillsdale, Lithgow. Now 63, Rushworth still resides in the same rugged mining town from which he sprung to represent Australia in 1963. A living, breathing Lithgow legend. At Bathurst Leagues Club, Bathurst they met several retired players including Bob Heffernan and John Fearnley. Heffernan, at 70, is a throwback to the rough 'n' tumble 1950s league scene. A lightweight Inverell boy who headed to Sydney as an apprentice jockey.

The article presents profile of Rugby League football player Brian Carney. Carney wants to live in Italy before he dies. He wants to climb the Great Wall of China and walk the Inca trail. But right now, more than anything else, he wants to catch a fish. He enjoys classical music, appreciates Roman architecture and boasts bookmarks in up to four tomes at any one time. He spent his youth in the little village of Valleymount, a typically Irish paradise where horse riding and Gaelic football filled his days, Carney shrugs off stereotypes as one would expect of a Paddy who prefers water to Guinness.

The article presents profile of George Gatis, a rugby player of New Zealand Warriors. Gatis was son of a working-class migrant and survived three years in the wilderness training alone, playing park football and spending six-day weeks engulfed in seafood. Gatis made his first-grade debut as a 23-year-old for the North Queensland Cowboys against Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval in round 19, 2001. The Cowboys lost 20-18 but George got through a power of work in defense, making. 31 tackles. On that night among his team-mates were Julian O'Neill, Glenn Morrison, John Doyle, Paul Bowman and current team-mates Nathan Fien and Micheal Luck.

The article traces the life and the career trajectory of National Rugby League's (NRL) star player Clint Greenshields. He plays guitar, meditates and writes songs for his girlfriend. Born and raised in Sawtell, near Coffs Harbour, he meditates for up to one hour a day. He reads extensively, studies astrology and boasts countless handwritten pages of song lyrics and guitar riffs. Since inking his first NRL contract with the Brisbane Broncos, Rugby Football team, way back in 1999, this well-traveled footballer has survived two knee reconstructions, 30 months rehabilitation and a year away from football as his weight ballooned.

This article presents information on Stem Edwards, a former ruby football player. The article highlights the incident which made Edwards take support of wheelchair. It is informed that Stem sustained the injury which made him wheelchair dependent in the year 1980. In the year 1980, Stem, then a 32-year-old father of three, had come out of retirement to help his local reserves make up numbers. Stem Edwards and his family are rugby league royalty in the Top End. While the clan have every reason to despise the code that put their patriarch in a wheelchair, they've instead become as much a part of Darwin folklore as Cyclone Tracy and giant brown stubbie bottles.

The article focuses on rugby players who were famous in the 1970s and presents information on the matches in which they were involved. Former rugby player Brian Bourke remembers a night in 1975 when 12,000 parochial bushies cheered his team Queanbeyan Blues to within one point of a heavyweight Eastern Suburbs outfit at Seiffert Oval. Roosters, who would go on to beat Saint George 38-0 in the grand final, had a team boasting seven international players including Arthur Beetson, Ron Coote and Johnny Peard.

The article focuses on rugby football aspirants who don't make it to the big league. While Matt King embodies all that is good about the game, his former housemate and centre partner Todd Bolton represents those silent masses who never quite make the cut. They're the real face of rugby league--the men who keep playing the game, keep putting their bodies on the line, long after the childhood dream has vanished. Once a promising schoolboy with Parramatta, the 27-year-old Dave McLean has spent his entire adult life on the cusp of NRL stardom--waiting for the league gods to anoint him like they now have King.

The article focuses on rugby player Anthony Watmough who belongs to the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles team. Watmough is the New South Wales Origin rookie who loves his beer, eats junk food and can speak first-hand about working for minimum wage. A 21-year-old who attacks every game, and the parties that follow, with the gusto you would expect of a kid who knows it could all end tomorrow. Watmough lives the concrete and steel lifestyle that comes from being raised in a rough 'n' tumble Narrabeen housing estate.

The article focuses on Longreach, a rugby fan town in Australia. High on individuality and humour, this parochial league town of 4500 sits smack bang in the centre of league's unofficial heartland — outback Queensland. Rugby football is an institution here, and the men who dominate it are afforded the same respect as those in the Stockman's Hall of Fame. With Queensland icon Gorden Tallis and Melbourne bananabenders Billy Slater, Dallas Johnson and Steve Bell in town for the event, parents and teachers have carted their kids hundreds of kilometres for the rare chance to mix with their heroes.

The article focuses on the rugby football team Moree Boars. Moree is a staunch league town. Moree Boomerangs were expelled from all country competitions because of ongoing player and crowd violence. The older but less-famed Moree Boars are still battling back from near-financial ruin two years ago. So deeply was the club in debt, players took the field for nothing last year and even bought the jerseys they played in. Moree football is a unique mix of skill and unpredictability—the Boomerangs once led a game 40-0 at half-time only to lose 48-46. Out here every player can pass and step, the ball travelling up and down the field almost as quickly as it moves from side to side.

The article reports that Matt Parsons could well be a throwback to another era, a time when footballers traded in loyalty rather than loot. If life was fair, Matt Parsons wouldn't have to retire in the next few weeks. Newcastle Knights officials would give the towering front-rower one more season. A chance for the 31-year-old to go out on his terms. The Knights would probably screw up Parsons' existing contract too. Bonuses would be paid for the number of games played while needled, rather than rep jumpers earned.

Rugby player Jamie Lyon is kicking back in the lounge room of his small three-bedroom home in Wee Waa, sprawled out on an old multi-coloured sofa, the PlayStation remote clutched tightly in both hands. Here, 600km from Sydney, is the Australian superstar who's walked away from rugby league. The player who's given up a yearly pay packet of $250,000, and all the honour and glory that comes with representing the country, to watch himself score tries in a video game. A game that goes nowhere near doing him justice.

Highlights the 2004 Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales. Activities included in the event; Information on some drinking establishments in the area; Performers of the event.

Presents news briefs related to rugby league football as of April 2, 2003. Views of coach Kevin Walters regarding return of player Carl Webb to National Rugby League after an injury; Compliments of Ben Ross of the team Penrith Panthers to his team mate Rhys Wesser; Performance of Peter Jones during a match for North Queensland Cowboys on come back after retirement.

Presents several developments related to Australian rugby football league as of March 26, 2003. Death of Australian rugby football player Norman Pope; Reaction of two Australian rugby football coaches regarding comments of British rugby player Garry Schofield; Contribution of rugby players Mal Meninga and Brad Clyde for raising funds for Canberra's bushfire victims.

Presents information on various developments in the field of rugby football as of March 5, 2003. Decision of rugby player Ryan Cross to restart playing; Recruitment of Michael Buettner to the team Wests Tigers; Role of New Zealand player Richie Barnett in the win of his club hull in the challenge club.

Presents recollections of various grand final rugby football matches in Australia. Parramatta v. Manly in 1982; Manly v. Parramatta in 1976; Parramatta v. Newton in 1981.

Features the celebrities who performed during the grand final of the 2002 rugby football season in Australia. Rocker William Albert Michael Broad; Australian singers Diesel and Sophie Monk; Singer Billy Idol.

Interviews Steve Edge, former team captain of the Parramatta Eels rugby football team. Reason for his success; Superstitious belief of Edge; Reason for choosing the Eels after his tenure with the Saint George Illawarra Dragons; Views on premiership.

Interviews Newcastle Knights rugby football players Josh Perry, Clint Newton and Anthony Quinn. Discussion on how they find the transition from footballer to male model; Knights players that can challenge Newton over 18 holes; Hobbies of teammates.

Uncovers the real story behind the controversy surrounding the Bulldogs Army, a group of fans for the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby football team. Incidences of violence involving Bulldog fans in 2001; Description on the Army language; Comments from Mick Omar of the Army; Problems facing the Bulldogs Army.

Features the rugby football players of the Walgett Primary School in New South Wales. Extent of the children's love for football in Walgett; Importance of sports for ensuring the attendance of children at school; Standouts in Walgett's football team; Advantage of Walgett football players over other football teams.

Interviews Australian rugby football players Braith Anasta and Willie Mason regarding their professional careers in the National Rugby League. Design layout of a print advertisement that featured the two players; Hobbies of both players; Participation of Anasta in the 2001 Sexiest Man in League competition.

Features several memorabilia of the games at the National Rugby League. Trophies of the Winfield Cup which was last awarded in 1995; Forearm guard used by former player Mal Meninga in 1987; Status of the padded bike pants used by the Saint George Illawarra Dragons team; Bow ties used by sports commentator, Ian Maurice.

Interviews rugby football player Ron Gibbs. Information on how he started playing rugby football; Career in rugby football; Details of how he got the nickname Rambo.

Provides information on the motion pictures that features rugby football players. 'The First Kangaroos'; 'Fortress'; 'Cop It Sweet.'

Interviews former rugby football player Ray Price from the Cronulla Sharks. Injuries he incurred from playing football; Views on being replaced during a game; Reaction to the way his former team trains its players.

Deals with the Australian players belonging to the New York Knights rugby football team. Information on their training and their training field; Relations with teams belonging to the Australian National Rugby League; Way in which the players from Australia came into the league; Ethnic composition of the team.

The article offers information on loving the rugby league football by country people in New South Wales. Topics discussed include views of David Barnhill, head of the Country Rugby League, on the rugby league football; winning the Amco Cup by Western Division during 1970s and performance of Riverina players; and relation between violence and country football.

The article offers information on the decision of rugby football player Jamie Lyon to move home in Wee Waa, New South Wales. According to Lyon, he loves Wee Waa, he also misses football but not as much as he believed he would. Lyon states that he hardly watched any of the Anzac Test between New Zealand and Australia and he is pretty busy at the bowling club. Lyon adds that people find it difficult to accept that there is nothing controversial on his decision to move home.

The article offers information on the inspiring and frightening journey of Aboriginal footballer Chris Binge. According to Binge, two men, both relatives, sexually abused him for four years when he just came out of hospital after having an accident. It states that the pain remained unabated even at age 10, when his attackers finally stopped after threats of retribution. It says that sexual confusion and nightmares like the grubby hands of his perpetrators were still all over his flesh.

The article focuses on different rugby football players. Graeme Langlands, a fullback, says that the greatest moment of his childhood was when Changa Langlands arrived at his family home in Brisbane, Queensland. It is stated by Mick Cronin, a center, that he enjoyed being a league fan during the Parramatta Eels' great run in the 1980s.

The article presents an interview with Robbie Farah, a player of the rugby team Wests Tigers. Farah comments on his position as a hooker. The player says that he will not like to return to the old days. Farah also comments on when he first realized that he had arrived as a National Rugby League (NRL) footballer.

The article focuses on various incidents that took place during different rugby tournaments. Information is given about the use of fiberglass shoulder pads by players of the rugby team Cantebury Bulldogs in a rugby match in 1985. The use of torpedoes by the rugby team Saint George Illawarra Dragons to prevent injuries at the beginning of 1992 season is also mentioned. An overview of the incident on how rugby player Tommy Raudonikis got the name "cattle dog" is also presented.

The article focuses on the fate of the players of the rugby football team Penrith Panthers' 2003 premiership team, who became victims of injuries, broken contracts, and confidence failure. Information is given that Penrith's player Shane Rodney has not played any rugby league matches since one year due to the three surgical operations performed on his shoulder. The fate of Panther's coach John Lang, who is without club for the first time in his 16 year career, is also reflected upon.