Women's AFL: Dockers swoop on Michelle Cowan
Fremantle have convinced in-demand trailblazer coach Michelle Cowan to leave Melbourne in a big blow to the bitterly disappointed Demons who were building a women's team around her.
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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.
Women set to shape men's NAB Challenge format
Eight women's league fixture submissions to be lodged with the AFL on Thursday could end up shaping scheduling and locations for next year's men's pre-season games.
Bidding warfare begins in women's league
Australia's most in-demand female footballers have won rare licence: the power to hand-pick the AFL club they want to call home and reject even the most compelling of suitors.
How the week that was took me back to North's dark chicken day
Images of violence against women have long plagued the AFL.
McGuire apologises to Pies women's boss
Before venturing abroad in blazing controversy, McGuire personally apologised to the woman his club has employed to set up its female football team.
Women's CEO joins Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions have created a women's chief executive officer position and appointed Breeanna Brock who, in trailblazing territory, will report to the club's established CEO, Greg Swann.
Codes unite to fight violence against women
A full-time female investigator was quietly added to the AFL's integrity unit last month.
Saints want in with women, 2018
St Kilda are intent on joining the women's league from 2018, seeing the club's as yet unrealised return to Moorabbin as the only noteworthy shortcoming in its first, unsuccessful pitch.
Biggest star in women's footy threatens to hang up boots if she can't be Demon
The most coveted footballer in the AFL's new women's league, Daisy Pearce, has threatened to retire from playing if she can't play for her beloved Melbourne Football Club.
New AFL-backed league a game-changer for women
Not since the declaration that the Victorian Football League was to become national have the string pullers of Australia's dominant sports code enacted something so significant.
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