Sport
Opinion
AFL 2024
The stats that show why the AFL should undo Hocking’s rule changes
The AFL’s implementation of the six-six-six rule and other recent rule changes have failed to deliver on the promises of enhanced scoring and improving the game’s look. Instead we have confusion, less creativity from coaches and no meaningful benefit.
- by Kane Cornes
Analysis
Women’s Asian Cup
Matildas’ encore on home soil cause for excitement for fans and FA alike
- by Vince Rugari
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Lyon says Indigenous round must highlight ‘fight’ as well as talent; How Parfitt found his place with Cats
- by Peter Ryan and Roy Ward
AFL
One in 10 AFL players ignore concussion symptoms
Some AFL players admitted they did not report their concussion symptoms because they feared being left out at the selection table and missing out on contract incentives.
- by Peter Ryan
Talented forward out as injury toll mounts for Blues ahead of Friday night blockbuster
Talented Carlton forward Jack Martin has injured a calf and will miss Friday night’s huge game against premiership favourites Sydney.
- by Jake Niall
Money Talks
AFL 2024
The list-demographics sweet spot fuelling the high-flying Bombers in 2024
- by Marc McGowan
Insight & Analysis
Why AFL needs to embrace the coaching merry-go-round
In overseas sports, head coaches often transition swiftly between roles, quitting or being fired from one franchise to resurface as the head coach at another. The AFL’s landscape with more entrenched coaches underscores the need for more open minds on changing clubs.
Kane Cornes
AFL columnist
Why personalities like Sam Draper should be celebrated, not gagged
Seeing Sam Draper’s reaction to the crucial decision late in the Bombers’ last-minute win against Adelaide was revealing and hilarious – unless you barracked for the Crows.
Mathew Stokes
AFL columnist
Australian selectors optimistic at best in ignoring T20’s A-kid
George Bailey and his panel think they are being risk-averse with their World Cup squad. They are actually risking everything as the world changes without them.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Soccer
Political football: FIFA to vote on push to expel Israel
- by Chip Le Grand and Paul Sakkal
Analysis
Women’s Asian Cup
Matildas’ encore on home soil cause for excitement for fans and FA alike
- by Vince Rugari
Basketball
Rivalling the Dream Team: NBA superstars bound for ‘an Olympics like no other’
LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama and the NBA’s superstars are all lining up for Paris 2024 and Brian Goorjian knows he will need a gritty Boomers team to stare down an Olympic field like no other.
- by Roy Ward
Why the hottest basketball player in the world is a 22-year-old university student
Steph Curry and LeBron James move aside: Caitlin Clark is the most famous basketball player in the world right now, and she’s only just getting started.
- by Billie Eder
Racing
Tennis
Collins tells cameraman to ‘back up’
The American was in a fiery mood during her match against Victoria Azarenka at the Italian Open.
Demon on verge of top 10 but Rome thrashing a French Open warning for Australia’s No.1
Alex de Minaur’s final match before this month’s claycourt grand slam ended in a humbling defeat as he bids to improve his underwhelming record in Paris.
- by Marc McGowan
NRL
Breaking
Around the clubs
Dragons offer Sloan $1 million extension, Walsh out of Magic Round
- by Adrian Proszenko, Adam Pengilly, Billie Eder and Michael Chammas
Updated
NRL off-field behaviour
Police swoop ahead of training at Eagles’ home, player charged with drug supply
- by Adrian Proszenko and Sally Rawsthorne
‘Very serious’: Abdo addresses allegations against Queensland-based player
- by Adrian Proszenko and Michael Chammas
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