Madison Square Garden? Pfft! Princes Park is mecca for AFLW Giant
Jessica Bibby is eminently qualified to talk sporting meccas.
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Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane joined The Age in 2005 and has specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, cycling, Olympic sports and drugs in sport. A Quill award winner and part of the Fairfax team that won a Walkley award in 2014 for its coverage of the AFL’s doping scandal, Sam has rich multimedia experience. She is part of the Seven network’s Saturday night AFL television coverage and was previously a panellist on network Ten's Before the Game. Sam was The Age’s Olympics reporter for the 2012 London Olympics, and covered the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games for Fairfax. Her work has won awards from the Australian Sports Commission, the Victorian Institute of Sport, the AFL Players Association and the AFL Coaches Association.
First openly gay AFL player couple: "We're proud, and proud of each other"
Partners in life, rivals in AFL football, Penny Cula-Reid and Mia-Rae Clifford are the first elite league player couple to tell the world they are gay. Though still unable to marry legally in Australia, the 29 and 30-year-old pair is engaged and wear diamond rings to show it. But on Saturday night, in a match for premiership points between Collingwood and Melbourne football clubs, there will be no love lost.
Revealed: how Pearce came close to burnout
The quiet resignation of Daisy Pearce from Melbourne's welfare team came as the top footballer felt at risk of being "footied out" when she knew her unique position should have been inspiring her more than ever.
Carlton AFLW star Vescio's Twitter account hacked
Darcy Vescio's debut in an unforgettable AFL Women's league opener has been soured by a nasty cyber attack of her Twitter account.
Where some traditions mean nothing, brave new world starts now
​The Australian Football League picked its most famous foes to boot it into a brave new world.
AFLW: Bulldogs captain vows ankle injury won't keep her out
Katie Brennan, still pained by an ankle injury, is adamant she will not miss captaining the Western Bulldogs in their landmark first women's league game, even if she needs assistance to run out.Â
Women may have 'no name' medals for years
The most coveted prizes in the AFL women's league may remain unnamed for years with the code resolving trailblazer footballers in the new competition, starting Friday, should inform the major decisions by writing their own history.
AFL chairman to fly in for historic first women's league game
The historic first AFL women's league match will feature a countdown with Carlton and Collingwood footballers running through handpicked guards of honour before play starts.
The Bulldogs doctor who stands to lose money playing footy
Full-time doctor and part-time AFL footballer Tiarna Ernst has admitted she stands to lose financially by committing to her sporting dream more seriously in the new, semi-professional women's league.
The Bulldogs player who delivers four babies in one night
Doctor Tiarna Ernst is on the phone.  From the kitchen table in her share house, she's arranging for the sheds of her local footy ground to be unlocked and opened.
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