Travis Cloke struggles as hapless Collingwood Magpies lose to Port Adelaide Power

Greg Baum Travis Cloke went goalless on his return to the Collingwood senior team at the MCG on Sunday.

AFL 2016: Port Adelaide thrash Collingwood Magpies by 67 points

Greg Baum Port Adelaide ran rings around disjointed Collingwood to claim a 67-point victory in Sunday's AFL clash at the MCG.

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It's all about knowing where the line is

Greg Baum If Sam Thaiday can go off reservation, I'll follow him out with this snippet from seventeenth century English poet John Donne:

Eddie Betts and THAT goal: 'I just try to make stuff up'

Greg Baum Goalscorer extraordinaire Eddie Betts doesn't need a corridor. The eye of a needle is enough.

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AFL 2016: Heads, you lose, but Jack Viney gets off lightly

Greg Baum Jack Viney can count himself lucky only to get a one-week suspension. He should have copped a couple more, for stupidity.

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Essendon v Richmond: Bombers all out of key defenders ahead of Fremantle match

Larissa Nicholson and Greg Baum Essendon has run out of key defenders, coach John Worsfold admits, and will consider bringing a young VFL ruckman into the team when they play Fremantle next week.

Essendon v Richmond: Tigers keep dream alive, Bombers dream on

Greg Baum This was a vibrant celebration of indigenous Australia, a lesser celebration of the so-called indigenous Australian game.

Working like a mason, Magpie Cox sinks the boot in

Greg Baum Collingwood's vertically-gifted US import makes up for his lack of experience sheer hard work.

Casual racism in AFL no joke, book finds

Greg Baum On-field racial vilification has all but been eliminated in the AFL, but casual racism lingers, a new book claims. And Indigenous footballers still are peripheral figures at most clubs.

Jarryd Roughead's comrade Lance Franklin shines as Swans defeat Hawks

Greg Baum Hawthorn has gotten by without Jarryd Roughead all season, but this night they severally felt his absence. It was a hollow as palpable as any presence. Roughy was missed.

AFL season 2016: Time's up for needless clock

Greg Baum North Melbourne's Mason Wood spending the last 25 seconds of the match at Etihad stadium standing on the boundary line with the ball tucked under his arm should be a lesson.

Western Bulldogs v Adelaide: Crows unhappy with free kick count

Greg Baum and Larissa Nicholson Adelaide will speak to the AFL about a baffling disparity in the free-kick count in their narrow defeat by the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night.

Western Bulldogs v Adelaide: Dogs hold on in another thriller

Greg Baum It was too much to expect the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide to reprise their scintillating 2015 elimination final but they just about did.

Of Eels and slippery business

Greg Baum This week in scandal, it is rugby league's turn, again. The salary cap drama engulfing the Parramatta Eels coincides with a conference in Melbourne on Monday addressing what its organisers from...

Winning only a beginning, says Roos chief Brayshaw

Greg Baum Top four the past two years, unbeaten so far this year; not for the first time, North Melbourne has risen without trace.

Growing pains: Giants, Suns on different frontiers

Greg Baum The Gold Coast is the Bermuda Triangle of Australian sport.

AFL season 2016: Kangaroos win arm wrestle against Bulldogs

Greg Baum North Melbourne stay unbeaten in season 2016, defeating the Western Bulldogs in a low-scoring affair.

Hillsborough and the way we were

Greg Baum There were 112,838 people at MCG for the 1970 second semi-final. As one of the shorter ones, I watched from a platform of four steel beer cans, filled with urine to stabilise them.

'Anzac spirit' a rum concoction

Greg Baum Twice on Anzac weekend, the vigil the AFL claims to keep over violence in the game slipped.