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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.
NRL probes under-the-table payments to Parramatta players
THE National Rugby League is poised to investigate property deals involving Parramatta Eels players that may have occurred at the club during the time Tony Zappia was football manager.
Italian connection comes under scrutiny
Despite having a multimillion-dollar property empire, the Parramatta Leagues Club chairman, Roy Spagnolo, has had an extraordinary run of bad luck, with a string of his property development companies failing, leaving debts including more than $1 million to the Tax Office.
League players are ashamed of their profession
MORE than half of top-level NRL players are embarrassed to be known
as a footballer following a scandal-plagued 2009 season.
Sin Bin
IT WON'T surprise many people, but the video referees who were involved in more controversy in Wednesday night's State of Origin were judged to have made one wrong call and another that was ruled borderline by their boss, Robert Finch. While Finch said he had not yet studied the rulings carefully, he admitted his initial view was that the decision by Bill Harrigan and Tim Mander to award a try to Jarryd Hayne late in the first half was incorrect. "I think that was a no try," Finch said after Queensland winger Israel Folau was taken out at dummy half by Luke O'Donnell. Finch said he would also have been comfortable had the officials chosen to award a try to Ashley Harrison off Willie Tonga's pass, rather than the pass being ruled a knock-on. But Finch refused to speculate whether Harrigan and Mander, who also controversially ruled a no try to Hayne in game one, were under pressure to keep their positions for Origin III."
Fightback fails to hold off the Maroon tide
THE NSW Blues nearly did the remarkable. Last night in the second State of Origin clash, amid a desperate and raw effort, the Blues fought back from 18 points down to score three tries and get to within four points of Queensland for a gripping final 18 minutes of play. Yet the final score was 24-14 to Queensland. Nearly winning wasn't good enough, especially before a parochial capacity crowd of 80,459.
Daine's Laurie and Hardy moment
HIS eyes bulged, his hands outstretched, his black dreadlocks
flying, his long spindly legs in full flight.
Unusual suspects pulled in for questioning
MELBOURNE Storm coach Craig Bellamy sat in his usual seat in his usual place in the coaches' box. He yelled his usual high-volume comments, furrowed his brow and, generally, was as tense as usual.
Elford plot thickens: parents of Sharks' benefactor charged
THE parents of the Cronulla Sharks' secret benefactor, Clint Elford, have been charged in relation to money laundering and recklessly using the proceeds of crime.
Sharks' practices put under scrutiny
Cronulla board members have moved quickly to address the club's business practices following the embarrassing debacle around the disgraced chief executive Tony Zappia and the secret Beyond Sharks Foundation.
NRL tells clubs to get women on board
THE NRL board has called for all of its clubs to provide detailed summaries of their corporate governance procedures and to actively promote women into board positions as the code tries to recover from the sex and finance scandals that have rocked Cronulla.
Sharks launch audit for clandestine payments as Gallop decries 'shemozzle'
THE financially embattled Sharks have started a complete audit of their sponsorship portfolio, including club ticket allocations and contra deals, amid a search for secret payments following the controversial departure of chief executive Tony Zappia.
The charity cheque it took Cronulla 11 months to write
A KEY statement of the Charitable Fundraising Act is "to prevent deception of members of the public who desire to support worthy causes". Does Cronulla measure up to this? Does the forwarding of monies to a charity 11 months after donations were made, and just days after the Herald submitted written questions about the fund-raising, constitute an abuse of that trust?
Zappia called to account for secret fund set up by Eels chief's firm
MEMBERS of the Sharks coaching staff, including head coach Ricky Stuart, are expected to be quizzed by club directors about whether they knew of a secret fund the club's disgraced former chief executive Tony Zappia kept hidden from the board.
Security 'broke my wrist': fan
GOSFORD police are investigating an incident which followed the dramatic finish of the Gold Coast-Roosters match at Bluetongue Stadium on Saturday in which a female Roosters fan allegedly had her wrist broken by a security guard.
Disgraced Cronulla boss under investigation over donations
THE Cronulla Sharks board will investigate its football club accounts following new allegations about how the former chief executive Tony Zappia handled money donated by a dying man as well as cash raised from supporters for guide dogs.
Zappia saga a lesson: Gallop
NRL chief executive David Gallop has vowed to continue pushing a strong position in its attitudes towards women in light of the damaging fallout of Tony Zappia's handling of former employee Jenny Hall.
Eels open door for disgraced Sharks boss
PARRAMATTA has left the door ajar for fallen Cronulla chief
executive Tony Zappia to replace Denis Fitzgerald despite the
controversial nature of his exit from the Sharks.
Hall says CEO left her exposed to violent threats
FRESH claims about the deteriorating relationship between the Sharks chief executive Tony Zappia and former employee Jenny Hall centred on an alleged breach of trust.
Sharks in legal bind over Hall tapes
CRONULLA rugby league board members are still considering whether to listen to the full, unedited tape recording of a conversation between the club's chief executive Tony Zappia, who has stood down, and former employee Jenny Hall before deciding Zappia's future at a special meeting tonight.
Hall raises police option over Zappia punch report
FORMER Cronulla Sharks employee Jenny Hall is considering going to the NSW Police after claims that a signed independent workplace report was circulated to the Sharks board.
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