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Greg Baum

Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age

Admitted to the Carbine Club: Richmond president Peggy O'Neal.

Carbine Club opens its doors to women

Another bastion of male exclusivity has fallen. On Tuesday, the Carbine Club voted to break with 55 years of tradition to admit two women. They are Peggy O'Neal, the president of Richmond football club, and Nicole Livingstone, an Olympic silver medalist in swimming and now a media figure.

Andrew Bogut ought to call out the bogus.

The truth is out there Mr Bogut, you just have to look

Andrew Bogut is a formidable basketballer, who played a manful role in Australia's gallant tilt at the windmills in Rio. He is also, more than most sportspeople, socially engaged. I could say, quirkily, doubtfully, provocatively engaged, but he would say the same of my world view.

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Today, the forward pocket. Tomorrow, the world!

It is the emails that should be sounding an alarm. A whole tranche of them. No, make that a trove; Wikileaks would. They've been flooding in for weeks. Names. Numbers. Names linked to numbers, like a code.

Bulldogs president Peter Gordon rallying the faithful at Thursday's training session.

Peter Gordon, the Dog with two tales

The Bulldog grand final balm will be at work on Friday night when key people from the three different - and not always amicable - administrations since the club was declared clinically dead in 1989  gather at the home of president Peter Gordon to rejoice together.

Games-record holder Brent Harvey leaves the field for the last time as a Kangaroo and possibly as an AFL footballer.

Kangaroos bow out, so do veterans

For two months, North Melbourne were clinging on. For two more hours at the Adelaide Oval, they clung some more. But like a man with his fingernails dug into the ledge of a cliff, they had to let go eventually.