Canberra Raiders News

Rugby league chairman talks with Trump's office about attending NRL games, potential historic breakthrough for sport.

Wide World of Sports

Rugby league supremo Peter V'landys has revealed his team has been chatting "backwards and forwards" with Donald Trump's office since he launched his audacious bid to lure the US president to this year's NRL games in Las Vegas.

V'landys, the chairman of the ARL Commission, also declared that if Trump popped up at Allegiant Stadium to watch the two matches it would mark "the biggest breakthrough for rugby league ever".

9News was at Sydney Airport on Tuesday morning to quiz V'landys on his ambitious pursuit, which even culminated in the heavy-hitter spruiking rugby league and inviting Trump to the games on breakfast television in America.

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The Daily Telegraph

Canberra Raiders duo Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies returned to their Las Vegas hotel after a night out in Sin City and did what many footy players in their mid-20s would to settle an argument - wrestle.

The prize for the winner was the one bed on offer after Smithies was left room-less following a check-in bungle that has plagued the NRL's official Vegas accommodation partner, Resorts World.

What they didn't envisage in their intoxicated state on their first night in the US was that...

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The Daily Telegraph

NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo boarded a plane for Las Vegas on Tuesday morning (AEDT), but not before putting the game's Las Vegas contingent on notice over their behaviour both on and off the field.

Abdo, speaking in the wake of revelations that Canberra players Morgan Smithies and Hudson Young traded blows after a late-night drinking session, insisted NRL players were well aware of their responsibilities to represent the game in the right way.

"NRL players are professionals and know...

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