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 | | The National Rugby League celebrated its 10,000th match and buried a time capsule to celebrate — league journalists were not slow to suggest that the tape of the match in question, a Dragons-Raiders blowout, should be interred in the capsule and never rescued. |
 | | South Sydney’s court victory last week was a resounding defeat for the National Rugby League and its major backers News Limited, an unconditional triumph for the campaign led by Rabbitohs legend George Piggins, sustained in the face of a series of previous court defeats. |
 | | Australian league may be master of its own universe, but in the wider competition to be top game in its home market, it is running a poor second to Australian football. |
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