Allegiant Stadium:The view from up on high.

Even in Las Vegas,being behind the scenes in the chairman’s room is surreal

From K Rudd to T Pain,police escorts to media moguls,there was plenty of action off the field at Allegiant Stadium for the NRL’s gala kick-off.

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Macpherson and Ettingshausen pose together in 1993,to mark his 200th game.

Thirty years later,Elle and ‘spunky’ Ettingshausen reunite

Back in 1993,the country swooned as Australia’s most beautiful woman and footy’s most handsome man posed together. More than 30 years later,they re-created the shot.

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Rugby league fans puzzled locals at an event in Fremont St,Las Vegas.

What’s rugby league? Americans’ thoughts on NRL’s biggest venture

When Las Vegas locals are asked if they have heard of rugby league,the most common response is a blank look,then “no”.

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NRL contests are considerably more physical than Americans are used to.

‘We don’t wear pads or helmets,brother’:Is the bloody biff the trick to finding NRL fans in the US?

Americans aren’t used to seeing their footballers take the heat without padding or helmets. They secretly like it.

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Lisa and Scott Sligers renew their vows in Las Vegas

Going ‘full bogan’ in Las Vegas:The footy fans getting hitched by Elvis

Rugby League fans are flocking to Las Vegas’ wedding chapels to get married before the footy. At one,Elvis presided over 12 Aussie couples in a single afternoon.

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Nathan Cleary’s Vegas bound.

NRL doubles down in Vegas with risky play of razzle-dazzle

To critics,rugby league’s push into the American sports market is a weird and wild waste of time. But many say it’s a not-so-crazy idea that just might work.

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UFC boss Dana White.

Dana White knocks back invitation to blow Canberra’s Viking horn

The search for someone to trumpet Canberra’s Las Vegas debut continues after the UFC boss declined the honour.

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Murdoch’s daughters were never a serious chance of taking over from him.

Handmaiden or peacemaker but never No.1:The Murdoch daughters ‘forsaken’ by their father

Though Prudence and Liz are Rupert Murdoch’s eldest children,their gender meant they were never considered genuine heirs to the throne.

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Tammie Farrugia,Adam Moule,Scott Marshall,Leon Sofilas

The low-level crooks linked to Sydney antisemitic attacks

Leon Sofilas and Adam Moule were neighbours in a shabby block of inner-city flats before their arrests. Tammie Farrugia and Scott Marshall were broke and living in a Liverpool flat.

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NSW Premier Chris Minns addressed questions about the caravan as more anti-Semitic graffiti was found in Sydney in late January.

‘The threat is real’:Minns defends response to caravan discovery

Amid revelations an abandoned explosives-laden caravan in Sydney may have been an organised crime set-up,the NSW premier says the public threat was not overstated.

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