Rugby League

Former skipper Jesse Bromwich may miss New Zealand's rugby league Test match against Australia this month with his wife due to give birth.

A fired-up Sydney Roosters team thrashed an insipid Melbourne Storm 21-6 in a one-sided National Rugby League Grand Final to secure their 14th championship in the Australian top flight.

Minor premiers Sydney Roosters and Melbourne head into tonight's NRL decider as the two closest grand final combatants in the game's 110-year history.

D-day has arrived for Sydney Roosters halfback Cooper Cronk after being given until the last minute to prove his fitness for Sunday night's NRL grand final against his former club Melbourne.

He can't get much bigger, but Melbourne's man mountain Nelson Asofa-Solomona can get better when he lines up against the Sydney Roosters in Sunday's NRL grand final.

Paul Gallen and Johnathan Thurston can't see Cooper Cronk featuring in Sunday's NRL grand final, if his shoulder injury is as bad as first diagnosed.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck has become the first Warrior to win the Dally M medal as the Kiwi fullback heralded a new generation of talent in the NRL.

NRL star Roger Tuivasa-Sheck has been ruled out of New Zealand's Test against Australia in Auckland next month and subsequent tour of Europe.

Sydney Roosters halfback Cooper Cronk admits he is a "long shot" to play in Sunday's NRL grand final against Melbourne due to a shoulder injury.

The New Zealand Warriors hopes of playing in the inaugural NRL women's grand final are over after they lost 32-10 to the Brisbane Broncos.

Billy Slater has powered Melbourne into a third straight NRL grand final with a 22-6 flogging of Cronulla, but he may be suspended from his farewell game for a shoulder charge.

Cronulla will have to win their way to the NRL grand final without captain Paul Gallen after he was ruled out of Friday night's preliminary final against Melbourne with a shoulder injury.

South Sydney superstar Sam Burgess hopes the NRL's integrity unit will finalise its investigation into the sexting scandal, which has engulfed the club, within the next two days.

NRL club South Sydney have been plunged into a lewd video chat scandal on the eve of their NRL semi-final against St George Illawarra.

St George Illawarra will face South Sydney in a dream semi-final in what shapes as a historic weekend of finals in the NRL era.

The women's Warriors preparations are all but complete ahead of round one of the inaugural NRLW Premiership where they'll face the Sydney Roosters on Saturday.

Canterbury have been fined a record $250,000 for their Mad Monday saga after National Rugby League boss Todd Greenberg sought to draw a line in the sand over player misbehaviour.