NRL

The situation has escalated and the players were stranded overnight.

The Jarome Luai era at the Wests Tigers came within a whisker of starting with a win before Newcastle fought back to claim their season-opening arm wrestle.

JUSTIN LANGER: The ugly scenes out of the White House made me think about an aspect of leadership often overlooked.

The South Sydney coach has revealed what he thinks about the Dolphins-Souths game getting relocated to Sydney with cyclone Alfred about to hit the east coast. But he was tight-lipped about one key issue.

Dolphins players Kodi Nikorima and Mark Nicholls have put family first and pulled out of the clash with South Sydney in Parramatta as Cyclone Alfred looms.

KIERSTEN DUKE: It’s the easy option but it definitely is not the right one. Here are several ways to fix the USA season openers without axing the Jillaroos.

The league has made a bold call so that the Souths-Dolphins game can go ahead as Cyclone Alfred bears down on the east coast.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: The star players may want it but I will tell you why Aussie rules origin is going to fail.

ARL Commission boss Peter V'landys has admitted a change needs to be made after a worrying issue was raised.

Joe Tapine and Xavier Savage are unlikely to feature in the follow-up to Canberra's impressive round-one NRL win over the Warriors in Las Vegas.

Australia ran riot in a 90-4 flogging of England in Las Vegas but one player was hospitalised after a head-on clash.

Penrith have held off a fast-finishing Cronulla to win an epic Las Vegas NRL season opener.

Canberra will be partying into the night in Las Vegas after kicking the NRL season off with their most impressive performance in recent memory.

Defending Super League champions Wigan have thrashed rivals Warrington with a former Parramatta player the star of the show.

The action is under way in Sin City as Nathan Cleary’s Penrith Panthers look to start their NRL title defence with a new-look side as the headline act of the four game US extravaganza.