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	Rugby league - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Rugby League is the result of a merger between the Australian Super League and the Australian Rugby League in 1998.
		Rugby league in New Zealand is under the control of the New Zealand Rugby League, which runs the national competition, the Bartercard Cup and the national team, the Kiwis.
		The two main rugby league competitions are the National Rugby League (in Australia and New Zealand) and the Super League (in Great Britain and France).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rugby_League (3002 words)

	Super League (Europe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Super League (Europe) is the only full-time professional rugby league competition operating in the northern hemisphere.
		The competition was first mooted during the Super League war as a way for Rupert Murdoch to gain the upper hand during the battle for supremacy with the Australian Rugby League.
		Promotion and relegation between Super League and the Rugby League National Leagues was re-introduced, and in 2002 the SLE governing body re-integrated fully into the Rugby Football League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_League_(Europe) (728 words)

	Super League (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Super League was a rugby league competition that was held in Australia in 1997.
		Whilst rugby league would receive no additional benefit on their PTV rights, Packer was in a position to on sell the rights he received for a substantial profit.
		Most Super League players played in the ARL season of 1996, with the notable exception of Gorden Tallis who sat the season out, and did not play again until he joined the Brisbane Broncos in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_League_(Australia) (9900 words)

	ABC Sport - Rugby League - Talking 'bout a revolution
		Super League promised so much and 10 years on it's interesting to look back and actually see what was delivered.
		There were parts of rugby league that needed to move forward and evolve, and super league in many ways was the catalyst for that change.
		Super League was a bloody revolution and even today the wounds are still raw.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/features/2004/s1332555.htm (715 words)

	National Football League - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922.
		The next year 1969, another American Football League team, the Buffalo Bills were the first professional football team of the modern era to begin the season with a fl, James Harris as their starting quarterback.
		The founding of the United States Football League in the early '80s was the biggest challenge to the NFL in the post-merger era.
	www.voyager.in /National_Football_League (4142 words)

	Titans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The onset of the Super League war in 1995 shook Rugby League in this country to its foundations.
		During the Super League war the Chargers were a success story - recording massive crowd numbers and enjoying substantial support from the Gold Coast community.
		The initial breakthrough in the Super League dispute came at the end of the 1997 season.
	www.titans.com.au /pages/page.php?page=27 (552 words)

	Welsh Rugby League
		The result was predicted by many pundits after the victory over England but in truth there was much work to be done on a mudridden pitch against a French side not used to surrendering on their own territory.
		Super League seemed set to take control of the international game and the ARL offered Iestyn Harris £70,000 to sign for them and declare himself ineligible for Wales or Great Britain.
		Fortunately Super League were able to negotiate him a vastly improved contract which kept him with Warrington and Wales.
	wales.rleague.com /dragons/history/1995frawal.php (638 words)

	Souths likely to seek 'retribution' against Storm - theage.com.au
		Melbourne Storm's strong links with News Ltd and former Super League boss John Ribot will be extra motivation for South Sydney in their National Rugby League clash at Olympic Park today.
		That's the view of Storm skipper Stephen Kearney, who expects Souths to be fired up because of their axing from the NRL two years ago when the league was restructured after the Super League war.
		Super League architect Ribot, blamed by many at Souths for the club's problems, is a part-owner of the Storm along with News Ltd.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/06/21/1023864501844.html (567 words)

	A call that's too tough to make - League - www.smh.com.au
		When the Super League war ended at the end of the 1997 season, one of the first things the newly formed NRL did was draw up criteria for inclusion into the premiership.
		Dating back to 1995, the year of the Super League split, clubs were asked to provide financial details relating to gate receipts, sponsorship and other sources of income, while their on-field performances were also ranked.
		Newcastle, too, continue to juggle finances, and without a leagues club they recently asked the NRL to guarantee a $500,000 bank overdraft that may be needed to cover a recurring cash-flow problem at the end of the season, when the last round of player payments is due.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/13/1092340470384.html?from=storylhs (1078 words)

	Packer was in a league of his own
		Packer, whose influence on rugby league was central to the code's amazing rise in popularity through the early 1990s, died at his Sydney home on Monday night, aged 68.
		Channel Nine revolutionised the way rugby league was broadcast, but Packer's desire for control also brought the code to the point of collapse.
		For three years the fiercest battles in rugby league were played in the courts instead of on the field, with a peace deal finally brokered on December 19, 1997, with Channel Nine again gaining control of the game's television rights.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=79022 (624 words)

	Crikey Website - The Super League war - 10 years on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Now it might have been so even if there had been no war, but the millions upon millions poured into the pockets of players, coaches and officials in the Super League and ARL competitions limited the funding available for the survival of the game in rural and regional communities.
		And it is most assuredly the poorer in the South Pacific where Super League poured in millions to wrest control of the regional from the ARL.
		In the case of Papua New Guinea, where rugby league is the national game, the millions went to the very undeserving few, and today the PNG Kumuls have been relegated to the second wrung and compete against teams like the “Junior Kangaroos” and not the Kangaroos as they once did.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/03/31-0854-4172.html (1567 words)

	Rugby Super League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When the hard-pressed Wigan defence failed to close down the elusive Long, Cunningham was on hand to force his way over for his second try of the match, his seventh of the season, and Lyonâs second conversion edged his side in front for the first time.
		In contrast to the first-half points bonanza, the second half became a war of attrition as both sides tightened up their defences.
		Tickle added the simple goal to restore his sideâs lead and Wigan were forced to defend desperately to extend their unbeaten run against St Helens in Super League to nine matches.
	www.superleague.co.uk /news/820 (574 words)

	Rleague.com - English Super League
		The Engage Super League competition has long been tagged a retirement home for NRL footballers but that could all be changing with at least 12 players returning to NRL after stints with Super League clubs.
		HistoryThe competition was first mooted during the Super League war as a way for Rupert Murdoch to gain the upper hand during the battle for supremacy with the Australian Rugby League.
		In order to facilitate this move, it has been decided that two clubs will be relegated from Super League at the end of the 2005 season, with only one club coming up from the National Leagues, thus the number of clubs in Super League will remain at 12.
	www.rleague.com /db/comp/english_super_league/index.php (1080 words)

	Radio National - The Sports Factor - 05/08/2005
		After surviving the super league war and holding off the threat of Rugby Union, Rugby League seems to be back on a surer footing, after all both the Prime Minister and the new Premier of New South Wales are lifelong fans.
		That was when South Sydney, one of the code’s foundation clubs, was ousted from the competition in the aftermath of the Super League war and 20,000 angry fans took to the streets of Sydney.
		So while the small communities the Bilinudgels no longer have a rugby league team, the population has drifted to the fringes of the vast metropolitan areas and they are supporting rugby league in vast numbers.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s1429358.htm (4816 words)

	The Super League war [Archive] - Rleague Grandstand Forums
		Super league was looked upon as a bad thing and i hated it too.
		What happen was, after Super League gave their presentation to the ARL clubs, Ken Arthurson brought big KP in and he told the clubs he would personally sue the backsides off them if they interfered with his TV rights.
		If the Super League War did not happen, the ARL could have only looked forward to was a piddle amount from Kerry Packer until the year 2000, because of the contract he signed with the ARL.
	forums.rleague.com /archive/index.php/t-15406.html (20298 words)

	Great Britain Competitions 1994-1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Towards the end of the season the Super League war broke out in Australia when Rupert Murdoch tried to wrest control of the competition from the Australian Rugby League.
		To gain an advantage he offered to inject 85 million pounds into league in Britain in return for a guarantee not to play matches against ARL teams.
		The Super League was formed from the top ten First Division clubs and the London Broncos.
	users.hunterlink.net.au /~maajjs/gbr/sum/gbr1994.htm (148 words)

	Crikey Website - Super League: a $500m+ indulgence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I suspect most rugby league followers don't regard The Australian Financial Review as their preferred newspaper, but fans should make a one-off exception and get a copy of last Friday's issue of the national business daily.
		And the article confirms that the cost of the Super League, which was an appalling indulgence, is far worse than has ever been reported or alluded to.
		News is clawing back some of its massive outlay through its 50% ownership of rugby league in Australia, and the fact it has effective control of pay television and free-to-air television rights until 2022.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/08/08-1232-8356.html (828 words)

	Baseball Musings: Super World League
		Something that might improve MLB and some other leagues is improved sharing of players, maybe by allowing "transfers" like in soccer, or bonuses for star players willing to relocate to another country for a period of time.
		There is not one big international league with team from different countries--each country has its own good domestic league.
		Baseball Crank Dan McLaughlin's blog on baseball, the war and politics.
	www.baseballmusings.com /archives/013567.php (4072 words)

	BBC SPORT \| RUGBY LEAGUE \| Lockyer backs North-South battle
		The talented full-back will be a key figure as Brisbane Broncos seek to maintain Australia's strangehold on world rugby when they take on Super League champions St Helens at Bolton on Friday.
		The World Club Challenge, won three times by Wigan between 1987 and 1994, made a low-key comeback 12 months ago when Melbourne Storm thrashed Saints 44-6 at the JJB Stadium.
		League defends partisan ad campaign (22 Jan 01
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/rugby_league/1136638.stm (484 words)

	Bring the Rugby League World Cup back! Petition
		Rugby League World Cup history stretches back as far as 1954 when Great Britain came from behind to beat France 16-12, even Union's World Cup only came into existance in 1987.
		Today Rugby League is growing all over the world, sadly it does this relatively on it's own with little help from the big league nations of Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand.
		The selfishness in Rugby League must end, enough with the focus on club competitions and competition between only the big 3 nations, we need to show our great game on the world stage, if we want to have any hope of future growth and sponsorship.
	www.petitiononline.com /rlwc1954/petition.html (668 words)

	Daley slams social drugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		- Australian test captain Laurie Daley has urged the National Rugby League to crack down on the use of social drugs caused by inflated player payments during the Super League war.
		Daley believes social drugs, in particular marijuana and ecstasy, are used widely by players and he has approached the NRL to find a,solution to "an alarming part of the game".
		Daley wants social drug users to be treated along similar lines to anabolic steroid takers,.who face much sterner punishments - first offenders are automatically outed for two years while a second offence will result in a life ban.
	www.nzdf.org.nz /update/messages/205.htm (318 words)

	Rugby Super League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		engage Super League new boys Castleford remain confident of winning their tug of war with Australian champions Wests Tigers over the services of goalkicking centre Ryan McGoldrick.
		The Tigers announced the capture of the 24-year-old McGoldrick from Cronulla on a one-year contract last month and were shocked to discover that Wests Tigers had first claim on him.
		McDonnell said giving McGoldrick a release was an option but said the club had not ruled out playing him in the World Club Challenge clash with Super League champions Bradford at Huddersfield on February 3.
	www.superleague.co.uk /news/2444 (298 words)

	Ananova - ARL chief questions World Cup credibility
		Australian Rugby League chairman Colin Love has questioned the Lincoln World Cup's credibility by saying that games against Russia and Fiji do not deserve to be considered Tests.
		At the height of the Super League war the ARL classified 1995 World Cup games as Tests, but they now want to return to their traditional system of making a distinction between Test matches, World Cup games and internationals.
		When Australia was left stranded without any Test opposition during the Super League war, World Cup games were given Test status for the first time.
	www.ananova.com /sport/story/sm_111171.html (312 words)

	Western Reds quiz -- free game
		Like several other clubs, it was short lived, being shut down not long after the Super League war ended.
		What was the club known as when it played in the Super League?
		The club's biggest ever win was against which Sydney club (hint: that club came 5th in Super League)?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=57710 (171 words)

	International Competitions 1996
		The team representing Australia was not an official team, but rather one put together by the rebel Australian Super League organisation.
		It was illegal to play against a Super League side, and playing an ARL side would have breached their Super League contract.
		Even after Super League won their appeal, New Zealand were not prepared to give up a game so that Great Britain could play an Australian team.
	users.hunterlink.net.au /~maajjs/sum/int1996.htm (1336 words)

	ARL to take Optus battle to High Court - League - www.smh.com.au
		The Australian Rugby League will seek leave to appeal a court decision yesterday ordering loyal clubs in the Super League war to repay $2.5 million in sponsorship from Optus.
		Optus unsuccessfully sued the ARL and its six remaining clubs - Newcastle, St George Illawarra, Wests Tigers, Manly, Parramatta and Sydney Roosters - in the NSW Supreme Court after Telstra was awarded sponsorship of the NRL in 2000.
		The telecommunications company, which still had an agreement with the clubs after bankrolling the ARL during the Super League war, appealed and yesterday had the original decision overturned.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/12/1078594573528.html?from=storyrhs (222 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Rugby League \| Ashes Series \| Ashes revenge set for 2003
		Supporters had to wait seven years to witness the ultimate contest in rugby league following the Super League war that split the game in Australia.
		The two countries are set to meet in a one-off Test in Sydney next July but are already in negotiations for another Ashes series in the autumn of 2003 to make up for their shortened tour this time.
		"The New Zealand tour is definitely on next year but it could well be that the Australians tour here in 2003," said the Rugby Football League's director of rugby Greg McCallum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/rugby_league/ashes_series/1678084.stm (219 words)

	Rleague.com - The World of Rugby League
		The NRL returns to Adelaide for the first time since 1998 when the Adelaide Rams played their last season before extinction due to the rationalization after the Super league war.
		The Panthers meet the Storm at Hindmarsh Stadium on Saturday night and it will be interesting to see the turn out to the game with diehard fans in Adelaide still bitter about their removal from the competition.
		While understanding of the NRL's obligation to promote rugby league, Mason felt demands on Williams and Marshall have gone too far.
	www.rleague.com /db/article.php?id=24951 (1437 words)

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