The hip-drop tackle surfaced in rugby league as a convenient, hazardous way for trailing defenders to floor a speeding ball carrier, whose bones and ligaments buckled under the tackler's dead weight.

Karina Brown is set to return from a calf injury for the final game of her career when the Titans face the Raiders in Sydney ...

Texans RB Joe Mixon called out the NFL on social media for not enforcing its own rules after injuring his ankle on what he ...

Elliott Whitehead has played his last game in the NRL with the Raiders captain accepting a three-game suspension for a hip drop tackle on Brandon Smith. Whitehead was hit with a grade three ...

A devastated Brandon Smith says there is no bad blood between him and Elliott Whitehead after the hip-drop tackle that ...

In vision obtained by Fox League, Whitehead is seen going over ... Elliott should have not done the hip drop to start with and then should he have had raised it in the press conference and then ...

When the Roosters hooker was helped from the field with a knee injury in the first half against Canberra after an alleged hip-drop tackle ... done to upset the rugby league gods.

Brandon Smith’s season was ended as a result of the Elliott Whitehead hip drop tackle ... “There was a bit of banter. It’s rugby league and I know he didn’t mean it.

But the biggest punishment is for a hip-drop tackle on Smith ... "He just competes, and sometimes in rugby league unfortunate things happen," Tapine said. "I don't think anyone purposely goes ...

Elliott Whitehead will not be suspended for the beginning of his second stint in Super League with Catalans Dragons due to a loophole that will prevent him from missing any competitive action at the ...

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