Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Sally is a friend of mine. She is a smart woman, tertiary educated and has a deep love of sport. She has grown up in it and understands it. She is passionate about Hawthorn a club for whom she holds a love that might even outshine that for her four children. Almost.
The Western Bulldogs' last-minute push for Brett Deledio came about after it became apparent that the star Tiger could be headed for the already formidable Greater Western Sydney.
Gold Coast believe they "extracted their pound of flesh" from Hawthorn in the Jaeger O'Meara deal which was finally sealed at he eleventh hour.
Richmond looks set to secure Josh Caddy from Geelong while trading star Brett Deledio to the Giants.
A surprise AFL ruling has opened up the path for Geelong to secure Zach Tuohy from Carlton after the Cats were given unexpected permission to trade another first-round draft pick.
ASADA has sought legal advice from a QC on the case against Lachie Whitfield and two former Giants officials for allegedly hiding the player from a possible drug test.
You have seen them. They are many and they are wounded and frightened. They walk distractedly, fidgeting with their hands like a smoker scratching at a new pack. Some scream spontaneously as if with Tourette syndrome.
St Kilda have secured Jack Steele from Greater Western Sydney for a future second-round draft pick.
The name involved is one of the biggest in the AFL but the deal is one of the smallest. Hawthorn champion Sam Mitchell will officially spend his last year as an AFL footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles.
St Kilda's has secured Jack Steele from Greater Western Sydney for a future second-round draft pick.
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