AFL
GWS face one Giant task
Richard Hinds Greater Western Sydney Giants play Port Adelaide Power at Skoda Stadium on Sunday. A match between a team that has not won a game and a team that has not won in seven weeks.
Racism in Sport
Goodes's outstretched hand still can't reach lunatic fringe
Richard Hinds On Friday night, Adam Goodes made a stand that, we immediately assumed, would heighten awareness of a form of racism that will never be eradicated from society.
Sheedy is a zealot, but he's no racist
Richard Hinds The joy of Kevin Sheedy is that he looks outside the AFL's small world.
AFL
Missionary Sheedy deserves to be judged by his actions
Richard Hinds The joy of Kevin Sheedy is that he looks outside the AFL's small world. He seeks people and ideas and looks to include them.
AFL
Ziggy zags around the big issue in Bombers report
Richard Hinds You only need to read the first few paragraphs of Ziggy Switkowski's "independent review" of Essendon's controversial strengthening program to understand the subtext.
Drugs in AFL
Get with the program, chaps
Richard Hinds We now know of the restorative powers of pigs' brains and bovine colostrum.
AFL
Winning's not the cure-all for malaise at Essendon
Richard Hinds We now know of the restorative powers of pigs' brains and bovine colostrum. But, if you want to be transformed, there is an even more potent potion. It's called winning.
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Mistakes, we've had a few
Richard Hinds AFL chief wants to bring the romance back to the game.
Blame will weigh on shoulders of sports administrators
Richard Hinds Australian Crime Commission's report into sports corruption is unflinching in its rhetoric.
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AFL forced to swallow bitter pill
Richard Hinds A high-profile club flaunting unambiguous regulations. A large group of players - unwittingly, or not - using a banned substance to improve strength or aerobic capacity.
ASADA deals bitter pill to AFL’s brand protectors
Richard Hinds A high-profile club flouting the unambiguous regulations. A large group of players – unwittingly, or not – using a banned substance to improve strength or aerobic capacity.
When codes sell out for a Sonny disposition
Richard Hinds He looks so good, that Sonny Quade-Folau. He is the ultimate first-choice athlete.
Football
Against all odds, somehow the Swans keep finding a way to get the job done
Richard Hinds In those last 10 minutes, the Swans were subjected to the most onerous test of mind and body imaginable.
Drive to close the cultural divide heading in the right direction
Richard Hinds THE notion of the ''magical'' indigenous player has sometimes devalued their contributions. Even under the intense heat of a grand final, by some reckoning it was as if the brilliance of Peter...
Swans can dare to dream but Hawks' poor form gave them a leg-up
Richard Hinds Can the Sydney Swans win the grand final? Yes. And not merely on the lottery-ticket-buying ''you've got to be in it to win it'' premise.
Swans storm into grand final
Richard Hinds THE Sydney Swans will play in Melbourne's grand final. The Melbourne Storm will play in Sydney's.
AFL
The Kennedy legacy
Richard Hinds Talking with Josh Kennedy before tonight's preliminary final, you raise the subject of his famous family apologetically.
Friday on their minds, and for good reason
Richard Hinds Privately, the Sydney Swans have confessed to some ambivalence about their ongoing relationship with ANZ Stadium in recent years.
GWS Galapagos tortoises will get there in the end
Richard Hinds Columnist Roy Masters is the author of an acclaimed book on the mating habits of NRL players. In these pages on Tuesday, he provided an equally compelling treatise on the mating habits of the...
GWS still standing tall despite loss in land of the real giants
Richard Hinds For Greater Western Sydney, this was supposed to be a knee-knocking moment. Their first match in Melbourne against the premiership favourites Carlton.
