Red for Danger, but it should be green
Patty Dangerfield has been punished because of the AFL's mission to organise chaos retrospectively.
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Greg Baum
Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
Saint Nick hangs up his halo
The incidental perspectives of two other footy lifers act as bearings to get a fix on Nick Riewoldt's exceptional career.
Heads you lose – every time
The fact of Donald Trump suggests we have peaked as species and are on the decline. None the less, wherever we are in 100 years, historians will look back at the last week and scratch the unprotected part of their heads in wonder.
Pies not cooked yet, says Buckley
Coach Nathan Buckley insists Collingwood aren't 'putting the cue in the rack' despite the 24-point loss to Hawthorn all but ending the club's finals hopes.
There's Bachar and there are bashers
South Melbourne's Jack "Basher" Williams was reported three times in the 1945 "Bloodbath" grand final, and suspended for 12 matches. This week, you might think he and his infamous deeds had been reincarnated in the form of his phonetic namesake, Richmond's Bachar Houli.
300 for Gazza, hidden in plain sight
What if Gary Ablett, as those sliding doors began to close in 2010, had not stepped across the threshold? What if he had stayed on the Geelong side?
Tigers in top four hunt after seeing off Blues
Richmond were slow out of the gates and wasteful in front of goal but lifted late to post a 26-point win over Carlton.
Forty years of hang time, and still going
"I might be famous for just one thing," mused Malcolm Blight as he was invested as an official Legend at the Hall of Fame dinner on Tuesday evening.
Flashback: Hall says he shouldn't have played '05 grand final
Barry Hall admits he should not have played the 2005 grand final in which he led Sydney to a drought-breaking premiership.
Clarkson: a word, if you don't mind
On rate per word, dear to the heart of all journalists, Alastair Clarkson has copped the heaviest fine in footy history. The Hawthorn coached was docked $20,000 for commenting on umpires. In fact, it was $20,000 for one word, "disgraceful". It just as well he did not go on.
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