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MITCHELL JOHNSON: Pat Cummins does not need to play every match, but two ODIs since the 2023 World Cup is not enough for the captain of a rebuilding side.

KIERSTEN DUKE: Phoenix Crossland made a mistake. The NRL judiciary has dealt with it. It’s time the online mob did the same and left him alone.

DANE ELDRIDGE: With the Newcastle Knights capturing the nation’s imagination for Sunday’s NRL grand final, Australia is once again unifying in hate against the Sydney Roosters, even more so than usual. 

JUSTIN LANGER: Nick Daicos’ Brownlow Medal revelation about his nightly journalling prompts a look back at the power of putting thoughts, goals and lessons on paper.

Collingwood’s men’s team are a revered destination for wantaway AFL players, while the women’s brand lags way behind.

The things I read and heard about Trent Robinson in the lead up to the weekend’s semifinals had Spudd Carroll doing a double take.

This week, Justin Langer sat in a pitch-black theatre and listened to a voice he has known his whole life. That voice belonged to the late, great Dennis Cometti. 

There is so much value in kids being involved in multiple sports growing up, regardless of whether it’s the one they want to play professionally, writes Mitchell Johnson.

It’s provocative, it’s viral and we’re writing about a product that isn’t even available here. From a marketing perspective, job done. But aren’t we past viewing female athletes as sex symbols first?

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: Supercoach Bennett echoed my thoughts on the Bunker exactly after his Rabbitohs were beaten by Newcastle on Friday. But here’s the solution.

It isn’t the sport itself that really matters — it is every moment of joy and relief these clubs bring to our farmers, who need them as much as everyone needs their community to flourish and stay healthy.

The longest road trip in NFL history is culminating at the MCG this morning as the Los Angeles Rams take on the San Francisco 49ers in the latest instalment of one of the game’s greatest rivalries.

Only a handful of weeks ago, the four-peat bullies had sucked the rest of the competition in to believing this year’s premiership race was actually wide open. 

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: I can’t believe Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall is hailing Jarome Luai’s two years at the club a success.

You can play with complete freedom throughout a season or tournament. Then finals arrive and, without deliberately changing anything, the thought process can become different.

Thursday night’s qualifying final at the home of the Fremantle Dockers in front of a packed purple haze is an intimidating venue for Hawthorn to enter.

Watching the NRL experiment with the new kick off rule, while still dealing with the fallout from its expanded six-again interpretation, it is fair to ask whether the game is becoming unnecessarily complicated.

DANE ELDRIDGE: Finding the promised land wouldn’t only reward the club for rescuing the game, it’d go a long way to dispelling its reputation as being known solely for fun and wild mullets.