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How Good Is Jack Darling

How Good Is Jack Darling

Jack Darling has become a remarkable rookie story in what has already been a season to remember for the West Coast Eagles. 1 Sep 2011
Australian Pie

Australian Pie

Players want a bigger piece of the games revenue pie, but the suits are yet to meet their demands, could we be approaching a NFL-style lockout? 4 Aug 2011
David Parkin

David Parkin

David Parkin came from the most prestigious school ever to produce AFL coaches: the school of hard knocks. The backline. 5 Jun 2011
Drinks With Ron Barrasi

Drinks With Ron Barrasi

Is there a more recognisable face in Australian sport than Ron Barassi’s? 8 Feb 2011
Drinks With Paul Roos

Drinks With Paul Roos

Fear, loathing, greed and optimism in the AFL – these are things Paul Roos has seen before. 11 Aug 2010
Drinks With Matthew Richardson

Drinks With Matthew Richardson

Like a romantic revolutionary fighting a doomed cause, Matthew Richardson carried the tattered Tigers’ battleflag into 282 games over 17 seasons. 12 May 2010
Kevin Sheedy

Kevin Sheedy

Few players’ careers in football take-off upon retirement like Kevin Sheedy’s did. but then again, there’s no one in the AFL like Sheeds. 12 May 2010
Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet

Bernard Bosanquet’s googly just wasn’t cricket – batsmen couldn’t even see where it was headed! But he changed the way the game was played. 15 Jan 2010
How Good Is Mitchell Watt

How Good Is Mitchell Watt

“Jumping Jai” Taurima’s Australian long jump record was supposed to stand the test of time. Now Mitchell Watt is here, it’s under serious threat. 15 Jan 2010
Drinks With Shane Heal

Drinks With Shane Heal

Gentlemen prefer blondes, not blonds, especially not forms of the latter who are opposing point guards with lethal long-range shooting games and a bit of ’tude – like Shane Heal. 15 Jan 2010
Hockey With Liam De Young

Hockey With Liam De Young

For so long it was the rest of the hockey world doing all the laughing as the Kookaburras flew in and left Olympic Games gold medal-less. 17 Dec 2009
Dr Bruce Oglivie

Dr Bruce Oglivie

The philosophies of sports physiologist Dr Bruce Ogilvie were dismissed at first, then adopted as commonplace. And still are. 15 Dec 2009
Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell

Ian Chappell’s forthright but enabling leadership transformed a dispirited Aussie Test outfit into the world’s most influential team. 17 Nov 2009
Jockeying With Craig Williams

Jockeying With Craig Williams

If ever a sporting destiny beckoned, it was for Craig Williams to ride winners. 18 Oct 2009
Super Power

Super Power

Inside Sport’s beanpole reporter Aaron Scott recently discovered at Eastern Creek Raceway that as a Superbike prospect, he makes a bloody good journo. 18 Oct 2009
Drinks With Paul Reiffel

Drinks With Paul Reiffel

Cast your mind back over the past two decades of Australian cricket and it’s easy to pass by Paul Reiffel. 18 Oct 2009
Netball With Laura Geitz

Netball With Laura Geitz

For Laura Geitz the brief is simple: fill the shoes of Liz Ellis. Tough brief. 19 May 2009
Drinks With Leigh Mathews

Drinks With Leigh Mathews

There was great excitement among the Baker men when I announced I’d been granted an audience with the AFL Player of the Century, his Lethalness, Leigh Matthews. 19 May 2009
How Good Is Masada Iosefa

How Good Is Masada Iosefa

Just who will ultimately settle into Luke Priddis’ old hooking role at the Panthers? Plenty out west reckon it’ll be young Masada Iosefa. 19 May 2009
How Good Is Bradd Dalziell.

How Good Is Bradd Dalziell.

The Brisbane Lions have paraded some of the AFL’s most talented midfielders in recent seasons. Bradd Dalziell, 22, is their latest 21 Apr 2009
Drinks With Dennis Commetti

Drinks With Dennis Commetti

Even by the exacting standards of the common AFL fan, Dennis Cometti is considered the very best AFL commentator in the land. 1 Jul 2007