Manly beat expansion team the Gold Coast Titans 20-6 yesterday, allowing the Sea Eagles to join the Melbourne Storm with 6-0 records and a perfect start to Australia's National Rugby League season.
Brett Stewart scored two tries and captain Matt Orford added a third five-pointer, giving the Sea Eagles an 18-0 lead at half-time.
In another match yesterday, winger Hazem El Masri scored a try and kicked four goals to lead the Bulldogs to a 21-18 win over Parramatta.
On Saturday, hooker Cameron Smith, playing his second match in less than 24 hours after helping Australia beat New Zealand 30-6 in a Test match on Friday, scored two tries and kicked five goals to lead Melbourne to a 30-20 win over Penrith.
Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy praised Smith's effort to help keep the Storm unbeaten and atop the NRL standings.
"He was wonderful," Bellamy said of Smith. "I wanted to get him off 10 minutes before and after half-time but then there were a few injuries. And then I planned to get him off at 22-8 but then they came back and like a baby's blanket you always want him out there, he's so reliable."
Center Ben Pommeroy scored three tries in the first half to lead Cronulla to a 26-0 win over Canberra in southern Sydney. The loss continues the Raiders' poor form on the road.
They have conceded 96 points in their three away games this season and scored a measly 12.
Today, South Sydney travel to Townsville to play the North Queensland Cowboys to close out the sixth round.
Four teams -- St. George Illawarra, the Sydney Roosters, Wests Tigers and the New Zealand Warriors -- had weekend byes to lessen the strain on the top players who competed in the Australia-New Zealand Test.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB