For the first time since farewelling Tina Turner in 1995 the NRL used a major recording star in its promotional campaign and accessed a media budget that saw the launch ad shown regularly throughout the season.
The Dally M Medal ceremony was cancelled by the NRL after negotiations with the players' union, the Rugby League Professionals Association, stalled.
Andrew Johns broke the NRL all-time pointscoring record (since broken again by Hazem El Masri) previously held by Jason Taylor, against the Parramatta Eels at Parramatta Stadium in round 18.
In the NRL All Stars, David Taylor injured his ankle at training and was replaced by Sam Burgess, Gareth Ellis was sent home on compassionate grounds because of the birth of his first child and was replaced by Robbie Farah and Alan Tongue injured himself and was replaced by David Shillington.
After recently travelling to South Africa, South America and the UK he bumped into ex NRL player Clint Newton who he spoke to and was encouraged by him to join the Melbourne Storm.
In February 2008, Summons was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
Tazos were first released in Australia in 1995 with the Looney Tunes set, since then Australia the TAZO series has grown with various themes which include various The Simpsons sets, Beyblades, Star Wars, Marvel Heroes and in the last few years AFL and NRL footy sets.
Ned Catic, former NRL player from the 90s (Penrith Panters/Sydney Roosters)
Having won over 400 games at a winning percentage of 70% Goorjian's record exceeds that of Australian coaching legends in the other major professional leagues including Kevin Sheedy (AFL - 365), Allan Jeans (AFL - 358), Tom Hafey (AFL - 336), David Parkin (AFL - 306), Wayne Bennett (NRL - 294 wins) and Tim Sheens (NRL - 235).
In 2006, Holland appeared in several advertisements on television for a lottery advertisement along with the NRL's Matthew Johns.
In 2010 and 2011, Argenti hosted the national drive sports radio show 'The Home Straight' with former AFL player Peter 'Spida' Everitt and former NRL player Scott Sattler on the Southern Cross Austereo 'Localworks' network across Australia.
Sydney Roosters, an Australian rugby league football team in the NRL, formerly known as "Eastern Suburbs" or "Easts" for short.
In January 2011, David Gallop, then CEO of the NRL, confirmed he had spoken to a bid team delegate seeking to create Brisbane's second NRL team.
In 2001 Vanessa Amorosi and Lee Kernaghan recorded a version of the song that was used as the official NRL Friday Night Football theme, featuring on Channel Nine's weekly primetime broadcast of the Rugby League every Friday night at 8:30pm.
Hawkesbury Radio was the only Community Radio Station in Australia to have Broadcast rights of NRL which featured Penrith Panthers NRL matches, from 1997 to 2009.
In 2001, Australia's largest telecommunications provider Telstra became naming rights sponsor of the NRL, with the competition's name becoming the NRL Telstra Premiership, while in 2002 David Gallop took over the CEO role from David Moffett, and the competition has become more and more popular each season.
Newell became successively head of the theoretical analysis subsection, associate head of the section, and by 1947 headed the section; which performed upper atmosphere research using rockets including German-built V2s, US-built Aerobees and eventually NRL's own Viking; mostly launched from the White Sands Missile Range.
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In 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower assigned NRL responsibility to launch satellites during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), Newell was promoted to Acting Superintendent of NRL's Atmosphere and Astrophysics division, with an additional assignment as science coordinator for Project Vanguard.
The Illawarra Steelers Rugby League Football Club played in the NSWRL rugby league competition, then the NRL, from 1982 to 1998, and currently forms one half of the St George Illawarra Dragons joint venture.
In late 2005, Thurston was one of 13 NRL players who posed for the League of Their Own 2006 calendar that was produced in the style of the Dieux du Stade calendars to raise money for the Koori Kids foundation.
Research in the LAP has been supported by corporations such as AT&T, Sperry, and IBM and by U.S. federal agencies such as NASA, NSF, NRL, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
London Gold is an Highlight show replay the events it aired on Nine Network and GEM on 29 July 2012 until 13 August 2012 at 9am till 11am and repeats at 4pm till 6pm, sometimes on Sundays at 2pm till 4pm on Nine Network in NSW and QLD and on GEM in VIC, SA, WA for NRL's Sunday Football, hosted by Mark Nicholas.
At the start of 2012, Ma'afu was close to joining NRL club, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles but nothing eventuated as Sea Eagles recruitment manager, Noel Cleal, who wanted to sign him, went to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs before anything was finalized.
However before the season had started he failed a NRL drug test, testing positive for ecstasy.
The Massive McMuffin was introduced to coincide with the AFL (Australian Football League) and NRL (Australian National Rugby League) season of 1998, when McDonald's Australia launched the Footy Burger (now the Double Quarter Pounder), Mini Footy Burger (double Cheeseburger) and Massive McMuffin.
The Men of League Foundation was established on 11 July 2002 by former NRL players Ron Coote, Jim Hall and Max Brown (rugby league).
Over the past several years, the MCC has had success with at least 4 boys who had once competed for MCC now in first-grade rugby league; (in order of NRL debut) Mitchell Pearce, Liam Foran, Jamal Idris and Kieran Foran.
After the end of WWII, Rosen worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he was involved in the definition of alternative designs for high-altitude sounding rockets, both for scientific research on the upper atmosphere, and for development of liquid rocket technology for military purposes, following the German introduction of the large V-2 rocket weapon.
US hip-hop artist Snoop Lion, the artist previously known as Snoop Dogg - said to be a Rabbitohs fan - has reportedly named Merritt as his favourite NRL player.
From March 27 till April 2, 2011, the NRL Championship Tournament took place in Cambridge, Ontario.
Since 2001 the Knights have based their uniforms and team colors on those of the Newcastle Knights of the NRL, due to their team partnership.
They play their home games in Manhattan, New York, and are a team partner of the Canberra Raiders of Australia's National Rugby League (NRL).
He was responsible for getting Sonny Bill Williams to return to rugby league with the Rooster after his 5-year ban from the NRL, for walking-out on the Bulldogs mid-season in 2008, expired in 2013.
It also can use the NRL and NVDL routing languages, which allow multiple schemas of different types to be applied to different files.
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For validation purposes, the documents can be validated against DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG, Schematron, NRL and NVDL schemas.
Newer on air controversies include the mocking of NRL player Josh McCrone stating he plays like a Crohns disease patient.
Phil guided the Chargers to finals glory in 1997, they beat the Illawarra Steelers 25-14 in front of just 8,197 dedicated fans at Parramatta Stadium, believed to be the lowest ever finals series attendance for the ARL/NRL.
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington was given overall responsibility, while initial funding came from the National Science Foundation.
On 14 February 2009 Members Equity Stadium in Perth played host to the first NRL pre-season match for the year between St George-Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters.
In late 2005, Ryan was one of 12 of the hottest players in the NRL that posed for the League Of Their Own 2006 calendar that was produced in the style of the famous Dieux du Stade calendars to raise money for the Koori Kids foundation.
In February 2008, Webcke was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.
In the Sharks first and only season, they managed to win six matches, their best performance being a 41-12 win over Chester Hill Rhinos, their leading try scorer was Sharlon Taki with 18, Mitch Mahon was the leading point scorer with 9, they were coached by former NRL player Luke Goodwin.
On Sunday 24 June 2012, Virgin Australia Stadium hosted its first NRL game when the 2nd placed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs played a 'home' game at the venue against the ladder leading Melbourne Storm in Round 16 of the 2012 NRL season, the NRL's Women in League Round.
The Army assembled an Upper Atmosphere Research Panel of representative from the Air Material Command, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Army Signal Corps, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Harvard University, Princeton University, and General Electric Company.
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This includes: Men’s and Women’s International rugby, NPC rugby, Kingz and Wellington Phoenix football, Impact World Tour, Habitat for Humanity, Super 12 rugby, Summer Jam, Volcanic Paintball, Crusty Demons, Super 14 rugby, WIPSEC Cultural Concert, Regional/National Marching Championship, NRL New Zealand Warriors, Waikato FC NZFC matches, Kiwi Bowl Gridiron and International football.