{"id":450971,"date":"2026-02-01T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450971\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:07:09","slug":"times-confirmed-for-las-vegas-opening-nrl-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/450971\/","title":{"rendered":"Times confirmed for Las Vegas opening NRL round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRL have announced the details of the opening round matches, to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, on February 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The rugby league action kicks off at 4:00pm local time (11:00am on Sunday, February 29 AEDT), with a battle between Super League big guns, Hull KR and Leeds Rhinos.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nrl\/story\/_\/id\/47773660\/zac-lomax-parramatta-eels-nrl-saga-explained-terms-release-r360-court-battle\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1607720_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NRL season begins with the Newcastle Knights, showcasing star recruit Dylan Brown, taking on the North Queensland Cowboys with their new hooker Reed Mahoney, at 6:15pm local (1:15pm Sunday, February 29 AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>The action wraps up with the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs tackling old foes St George Illawarra Dragons, kicking off at 8:30pm local (3:30pm Sunday, February 29 AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>All three games will be broadcast live in Australia on Fox Sports, with Channel 9 showing the Bulldogs vs. Dragons clash on free-to-air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL have announced the details of the opening round matches, to be played at Allegiant Stadium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-450971","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\/450971","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=450971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}