When the boxing great Roy Jones Jr fought in Australia recently, he sought time with the man he felt was the country’s own LeBron James or Tom Brady.
“He’s the man – and exactly the type of guy that I want around me,” said the American, who won world titles at four different weights.
Greg Inglis was that man. He may not be an NBA or NFL superstar, but, strong and skilled, he is undoubtedly rugby league’s No 1 player at present.
It has been a year that the Melbourne Storm centre will …

DAINE LAURIE is an international superstar in waiting, and Kevin Kingston could be the best buy of 2010. That’s the message from Penrith coach Matthew Elliott, who says his side’s six recruits will ensure the Panthers play finals football for first time since 2004.
He declared his 2010 squad - with the addition of discards Laurie, Kingston, Adrian Purtell, Nigel Plum, Travis Burns and David Simmons - the most potent of any in his three seasons at the foot of the mountains.
”I know we’re going to have a good season. Absolutely,” …

AN ENGLAND-based rugby league agent spent the Christmas week in Sydney trying to nut out a deal to lure Roosters renegade Willie Mason to the Brian Noble-coached Celtic Crusaders in the English Super League.
However, The Sun-Herald understands at least four NRL clubs, including the Sharks, Manly and Melbourne, are also chasing the former international, who was granted an extended break by Roosters coach Brian Smith to organise a playing future elsewhere.
Mason is said to be in such demand from rival NRL clubs that he’s deciding which of the teams vying …

DORA and Peter Panos joined the rush into the city yesterday but it was a mistake.

The Drummoyne couple had no luck as they battled city crowds. Then they went to Broadway Shopping Centre and had spent $600 there when The Sun-Herald met them. ”We went into the city this morning but there were too many people and I didn’t find the sales very good,” Mrs Panos said. ”We came here and we found a bargain.”
Unfazed by the crowds were Surry Hills room-mates Sarah Berndt, 20, and Erica …

TWO brawls leading to several arrests for affray and violent disorder were the “highlight” of alcohol-fuelled violence in the Hills last weekend.
Hills police made 35 arrests during Operation Unite, the two-day police blitz.
The 35 people arrested in the Hills face a range of charges from affray and violent disorder to drink-driving, trespassing and malicious damage.
A man, 38, of Carlingford, was charged with assault after allegedly attacking a police officer at Ryde, leaving him with a fractured nose and possible neck injuries. The man was in custody over the assault of …