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THE BIG ISSUE: #51
By STEVE MASCORD BIG Issue has detected a strange phenomenon over the past eight weeks. While casual sports fans have been frothing at the mouth about Origin, rusted-on rugby league fans have been...
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Retrospective: State Of Origin Deciders In Sydney
#1: QUEENSLAND 10 NEW SOUTH WALES 5 at Sydney Cricket Ground, June 22 1982. CONVENTIONAL wisdom has it that NSW only started to take the Origin games seriously when they became a series in 1982. “Tommy...
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DISCORD 2013: Edition 29
By STEVE MASCORD IS there anything in life of which it’s impossible to get too much? I’ll be honest, this job comes close. Travelling around going to football games, interviewing rugby league players,...
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BONDI BEAT: August 2013
By STEVE MASCORD IT is 11.12pm and I am sitting in the Suncorp Stadium press box surrounded by half-empty bottles, programmes covered in scribble and colleagues who are concentrating intently and...
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The A-List: JAMES MALONEY (Sydney Roosters, Country & NSW)
James Maloney/wikipedia By STEVE MASCORD HERE’S the thing about James Maloney. Call it a life lesson, if you wish. If you believe what you read, his brashness hurt him in Melbourne. He walked into the...
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The Origin Scheduling Conundrum
By STEVE MASCORD ANOTHER Origin series is gone – but we didn’t even wait until it was half over before we started calling for mass changes. Although the concept has been around since 1980, and we’ve...
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The A-List: JOSH REYNOLDS (Canterbury & NSW)
By STEVE MASCORD GRUB Henderson plied his trade on Sydney’s brutal rugby league fields in the 1980s. His brutal style of play constantly landed him in front of the judiciary, got him in trouble with...
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The A-List: ANDREW FIFITA (Cronulla, City, NSW, Indigenous All Stars & Tonga)
By STEVE MASCORD WHEN Andrew Fifita talks about “the coal train”, he’s not making a reference to Dave Taylor. He’s talking about an actual coal train. “It’s when we were down in Griffith that I found...
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BONDI BEAT: September 2013
By STEVE MASCORD THE big debate in Australia at the moment is on how the State of Origin juggernaut is completely overshadowing, and causing serious damage to, the NRL. Attendance figures at club games...
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Original Sins
By STEVE MASCORD YOU’D imagine after 27 years writing stories like this (but better) that this hack had done everything in the boutique-sized universe of rugby league media duties. True, I have covered...
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