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About Jacquelin Magnay
About Jacquelin Magnay
Walkley Award winning journalist Jacquelin Magnay is not afraid of tackling the big issues in sport. Drugs, sex scandals, salary cap breaches, sponsorship deals are all part of her daily fodder. Magnay has been a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald since 1992 and was Fairfax's Olympic correspondent, covering the intense political leadup to the Sydney Olympic Games, before switching back to sport in 2001. In 1995 Magnay successfully challenged rugby league's macho culture, winning a test case in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission that sought equal access for female journalists in sports change rooms.
Manly refuse to discuss their belief in bovine intervention
MANLY have refused to provide information about the club's long-standing practice of injecting calves' blood extract to hasten players' recovery from injury.
Numbers game will bar code
AUSTRALIAN Rugby Union boss John O'Neill has given a blunt warning
that one of the football codes might not survive. He reckons it
will come down to the survival of rugby union or rugby league, not
both.
Noddy shakes head over trade talks
CRONULLA halfback Brett Kimmorley said he was shocked to find out
that he may be traded, perhaps mid-season, in a deal brokered by
his manager, George Mimis.
Patched-up Benji may sidestep Kiwis call
WESTS TIGERS five-eighth Benji Marshall has said he will rule
himself out of New Zealand Test representation if he doesn't feel
his form meets international standard.
Dragons on a high after big Ben leap
Two tries in the opening five minutes set the scene for the Dragons
to thrash the Roosters.
One good leg, one big heart, Lance faces his final hit-up
IT WASN'T the biggest hits from his arch-enemy St George Illawarra that floored Lance Thompson, nor the training drills under coach Ricky Stuart at his latest club Cronulla. It was the exuberance of his seven-year-old daughter, Shalisse.
Slater shows why he's the No.1
BILLY SLATER last night played as if there was a spot up for grabs in the Centenary Test side.
It's all in a day's magic for El Masri
Hazem El Masri celebrated pulling on the blue-and-white Bulldogs
jersey for the record-breaking 273rd time yesterday in the most
treasured way.
Smith in first-grade form, as a slippery eel
Tim Smith has finally spoken. But he didn't say much.
Dogs foil the Easter bunnies
Bulldogs blitz Rabbitohs on either side of halftime to set up first
win of the season.
Eels boss wants ban on booze and cigs
SOME NRL clubs may include a clause forbidding drinking alcohol or smoking throughout the season in future player contracts, but leading players have ridiculed the idea as unfeasible and argued such a ban would impinge upon their rights.
Mr Bronco and the young bucks
Darren Lockyer is back from injury and has a new-look side to lead, Phil Lutton writes.
Code breakers who created a league of their own
A CENTURY ago Dally Messenger, the son of a boat builder, and a highly accomplished sculler, would sometimes row down the Parramatta River in between training, having just switched codes, controversially, to the new and more professional game of rugby league for Easts.
Sheens predicting stop-start to season
At some point in all of the opening games of the NRL premiership
this weekend, the teams will come to a shuddering halt.
Coaches hold ticket to glory
THIS top eight comes with an important disclaimer. I came last in
the Herald tipping competition last season because I followed my
heart, not my head (refusing to tip Manly and repeatedly, and
stupidly, thinking St George Illawarra would, indeed must, turn
around their woeful form).
Outcry as RLPA applies to cancel its union status
THE Rugby League Professionals Association yesterday applied to deregister itself as a union in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission as part of a sweetheart deal with the NRL.
NRL greenhorns keep their day jobs
The include a rubbish collector, a painter, a carpenter and an actor - and they are united by their desperation to crack the big time and score a lucrative rugby league contract. And now, thanks to the NRL's new under-20 competition, the Toyota Cup, they can indulge in their dream without sacrificing their alternative career options.
Heat is on - Brown and his players know it's time for Dragons to start breathing fire
Who's New: Kirk Reynoldson (from Newcastle), Stuart Webb (South Sydney), Jarrod Saffy (Wests Tigers), Jardine Bobongie (North Sydney Bears), Joe Falemaka (North Sydney Bears), Mark Hendy (Western Suburbs), Jon Green (Bulldogs), Alex Ranieri (Penrith).
It's best you stay away
Bulldogs tell Willie Mason not to turn up to training on Monday morning.
Mason release a done deal
WILLIE Mason has already been told to leave the Bulldogs, and club
officials are expecting an official request for a release from the
player or his manager within the next 24 hours.
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