The NRL has released the full draw for the 2015 season with officials hopeful a reduction of matches during the State of Origin period will ease the burden on the game's elite players.

Even if you are not religious in any way, questions must be asked about business-as-usual on the last sports-free days of the year.

Michael Clarke's World Cup dream hangs by a thread as Australian cricket bosses digest the captain's fears that he will never play again.

Australian sprinters ready to take up Hong Kong challenge if quarantine changes are made.

Suffice to say this was no affair to remember. But for coach Brett Ratten, all that will count is the result: a nine-point win to the Saints, who had trailed for the vast majority of the match.