Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
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.
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.
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.
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?
Richmond were slow out of the gates and wasteful in front of goal but lifted late to post a 26-point win over Carlton.
"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.
Barry Hall admits he should not have played the 2005 grand final in which he led Sydney to a drought-breaking premiership.
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.
High-flyer Jeremy Howe keeps on delivering top marks for all fans
From the moment Andrew Gaze was first down the slide into the giant ice bath, a theme was estabished: there would be no comfort zones at the MCG this Queen's Birthday.
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