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How footy’s final flings flailed and flopped
FINAL CURTAIN – Dateline 2048. Chapter 2. GEOFF POULTER concludes his trip into the future where he saw the last rites being applied to the great game of footy. More »
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Banished by the Blues, says superstar Kouta
HE WAS one of Carlton’s all-time great footballers but now Anthony Koutoufides is wondering why the club he loves isn’t showing much love in return, writes RON REED. More »
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Growing Paines for the new cricket captain
THE WEEK THAT WAS: NOBODY REALLY expected the massively depleted Australian one-day cricket team to do it easy when their five-match one-day series started this week – and they didn’t. It wasn’t all bad but there were some worrying signs for the captain, says ... More »
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Jeff’s View – June 16
Jeff and the World Game More »
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FINAL CURTAIN – Dateline 2048
GEOFF POULTER has taken a trip into the future and he sees the last rites being applied to the great game of footy. More »
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Mason Cox gives the Magpies a day to remember
PROVING AGAIN that you don’t have to be born into footy to be good at it, the American Magpie might have come of age as a AFL star, writes RON REED: More »
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Cricket boss Sutherland got more right than wrong
HE CLEARLY isn’t the most popular sports administrator in the land, but the outgoing Cricket Australia CEO had his fair share of runs on the board, says Chief Writer RON REED. More »
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It’s a helluva job selecting the Hall of Fame
EACH YEAR the new batch of footy Hall of Fame members are announced. But, as GEOFF POULTER, points out, there are always many deserving stars whose names don’t get read out: IT MUST BE the most difficult job going around – being an Australian Football Hall of ... More »
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The day the Pies were legless
LONG BEFORE the latte became such a fashionable beverage, Lou Richards was introducing footy fans to the world of caffeine, as LAWRENCE MONEY recalls. More »
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Jeff’s View – June 9
Jeff on the sporting nightmares More »
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Bronzed Bobby belongs at the MCG
IT HAS taken a long while for one of Australia’s greatest footballers to be honoured with a statue as many of his contemporaries have, but they’re putting it in the wrong place, writes RON REED: LONG OVERDUE: That’s the first thing to be said about the decisio... More »
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Sheeds – the man whose work is never done
HE’S THE man who’s done it all in footy – and then some. Now he is being hailed as the game’s greatest servant – ever – and chief writer RON REED agrees: THE WEEK THAT WAS: His lifelong mate Kevin Bartlett introduced Kevin Sheedy as the AFL Hall of Fame’s 28th... More »