NRL management is smacking a hornets nest with a very big stick — and there are a lot more hornets in there than they think, writes Steve Mascord.
The Melbourne Storm
The News at the heart of the storm
Altruism is not a high priority for News Limited. They are in the business of making money. This makes News Limited’s continued involvement in the Melbourne Storm particularly interesting, writes Nick Tedeschi.
The buck stops with News Ltd in the Melbourne Storm scandal
News Limited executives should have been paying far more attention to the way the Storm was being run than they obviously were.
Try as they might, no News Ltd means no Melbourne Storm
Despite Melbourne Storm’s onfield success, it’s haemorrhaging money and they are kept alive by the largesse of News Limited. The Storm should be closed down, writes Malcolm Knox.
Crikey Says: Why no one watches free-to-air TV anymore
Commercial networks can afford to treat viewers how they like when it comes to sport, because they are protected from competition by the anti-siphoning scheme. No amount of angry fan outrage will see any change.
NRL: A perfect Storm
The Melbourne Storm grand final win “has insinuated a once-scorned code into the consciousness, indeed affection” of their AFL crazy homeland, writes Greg Baum.
Hot Form Charts: History lesson for the Saints and the Pies
The last time an Ashes series went to a deciding fifth Test was 43 years ago, in 1966 — the year St Kilda and the Magpies met in the grand final. The Form Chart has read the tea leaves too, it seems.
