NRL Round 1: Viva Las Vegas!

‘And now for something completely different’, as they used to say in Monty Python terminology. Rugby League comes to Las Vegas to kick off the 2024 NRL season.

NRL 2024 Preseason odds and ends

NRL 2024 season preliminaries continue this weekend after an opening weekend that produced some very good footy. Rugby league editor Ian Hauser picks out a few highlights from the past week.

Mystery Pub: Viva Las Vegas – The Peninsula, Taperoo

It is mystery pub time once again. This time, Mickey and Claire find themselves in Taperoo

Almanac Life: Buses, Trains and Automobiles

It wasn’t quite as adventurous as the journey Steve Martin and John Candy took in the film ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’, but Smokie’s trip was memorable nonetheless.

Almanac Boxing: “Real” Boxing

Greg A casts his eye far and wide to find some “real” boxing. And, from Las Vegas, Naoye Inoue does not disappoint.

Almanac music: alone in a Las Vegas honeymoon suite

In 1996 Alan Attwood found himself alone in a Las Vegas honeymoon suite, writing up stories about Kerry Packer’s gambling and Mike Tyson’s demolition of Frank Bruno.