Fixtures for women's footy league to be revealed in November
First hurdle for women's footy league, the fixture, will not be published until November..
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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.
Essendon appeal fail "not a real surprise" to winner, CAS
The clear appeal loss that stamps 34 Essendon footballers with doping offences for life has been termed "not a real surprise" to the sports arbiter the AFL players challenged in a faraway court. In light of the finding, secretary general of the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, Matthieu Reeb, has told Fairfax Media the Bomber players' challenge appeared doomed from the outset.
Judgment reveals appeal success not even 'entertained'
A Swiss federal court did not merely dismiss the appeal of Essendon players now condemned to lifelong listing on sport's doping registry, it decided to not even "entertain" their challenge.
The great contradiction: pay no good but Pies bat away women's sponsors
Inundated by wannabe sponsors for Collingwood's new female football team, Magpie CEO Gary Pert has termed the AFL's contentious pay proposal – set to see most women receive $5000 for playing in year one - "a long way from ideal".
Inside story: The night before Bulldogs became premiers
The invitations landed on Monday afternoon, grand final week. Via email. There was no time for post.
Swan admits: I picked 'off' dates for in-season booze 'benders'
Dane Swan, 2011 Brownlow medallist and standout Collingwood footballer of his generation, has confessed he used to scour the AFL fixture to pick off temporary escape windows from the demands of his profession.
AFL 2016: Smorgon says AFL should learn from Dogs triumph
David Smorgon, Bulldogs president for 17 years, says the Dogs' premiership for the ages vindicated the club as a modern day template and should prove a lesson and example for the AFL and the league broadly.
Bulldog Clay Smith got leave pass to farewell lost friend
Preliminary final hero Clay Smith got a leave pass from the Bulldogs this week to make a 600-kilometre round trip and deliver a eulogy for his close friend who lost his life in a road accident.
Grand final countdown tip - flight mode is your friend
​Isaac Heeney, one of the AFL's brightest young stars but a grand final debutant, went extreme with the best piece of advice he got about navigating this week. He did not simply turn off his mobile phone to find peace. He broke the thing.
Decades of 'grand final insurance' pays off at last
Come Saturday, the expense Michelle Barty calls 'AFL grand final insurance' will feel as if it has been worth every last cent.
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