Knights legends cycle 300km to support Mark Hughes Foundation

In the tradition of athletes turning physical endurance into moral purpose, eight former Newcastle Knights players will spend three days cycling 300 kilometers from Newcastle to Mudgee, arriving in time for a match that marks both a sporting occasion and a decade of community solidarity. The ride is inseparable from the story of Mark Hughes, who responded to a brain cancer diagnosis in 2013 not with retreat but with institution-building — founding a charity that has since woven itself into the fabric of Australian rugby league. What unfolds on those roads is less a fundraiser than a ritual: a