{"id":445822,"date":"2026-01-29T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:10:17","slug":"why-nick-politis-is-going-all-out-in-vegas-again-with-the-roosters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445822\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nick Politis is going all out in Vegas again with the Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

To appreciate Nick Politis\u2019 commitment to promoting and growing rugby league in the US, you only have to look at the calibre of Sydney Roosters players he will send to America for the Vegas Nines.<\/p>\n

Premiership winner Luke Keary will coach the LA Roosters at the Nines, a low-key event which runs in the week leading up to the NRL double-header \u2013 while two of the NRLW\u2019s biggest names, Millie Elliott and Jess Sergis, will feature in the womens\u2019 competition.<\/p>\n

The Roosters were part of the inaugural NRL double-header in Vegas in 2024, and their owner and chairman Politis spent around $500,000 not long afterwards to help establish a league academy on the US west coast while also launching the LA Roosters, a team to feature in the Californian league.<\/p>\n

The $200,000 combined prizemoney for winning the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Nines competitions will mean little to billionaire Politis \u2013 but having the game of rugby league in the spotlight is priceless.<\/p>\n

Keary, who won titles with the Roosters in 2018 and 2019 \u2013 he was the Clive Churchill Medallist in 2018<\/a> \u2013 and since joined Trent Robinson\u2019s coaching staff, said he was never going to pass on the Vegas opportunity when approached by Politis.<\/p>\n

\u201cNick is dead serious about this investment \u2013 it\u2019s great for our game someone like Nick is trying to grow the game,\u201d Keary said.<\/p>\n

\"Roosters<\/p>\n

Roosters star Jess Sergis will travel to Las Vegas for the Nines.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll coach the men and John Strange will coach the women\u2019s team. Millie and Jess are both playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re sending over a few of the younger boys over who haven\u2019t played first grade, but have played SG Ball and NSW Cup. The final is scheduled for Allegiant Stadium on the Saturday morning of the NRL double-header.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To appreciate Nick Politis\u2019 commitment to promoting and growing rugby league in the US, you only have to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-445822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}