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AFL great Lance Franklin with children at the Michael Long Centre in Darwin.
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AFL 2024

To those saying no to an NT team in the AFL, your arguments are a crock

It’s only fair that there will be an NT team in the AFL some day soon. And when you look at the reasons why, it adds up.

  • by Greg Baum
Luke Parker flattens

Parker facing extended Swans exile after hospitalising VFL opponent

Luke Parker is facing an even longer stint out of the AFL after a brutal collision in a VFL game that is likely to attract a multi-week suspension.

  • by Vince Rugari
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Insight & Analysis

The list-demographics sweet spot fuelling the high-flying Bombers in 2024

We should have seen Essendon’s uprising coming – and the reason why helps explain two other fringe Melbourne-based finals contenders not meeting external expectations.

Marc McGowan
Marc McGowan

Sports reporter

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 changes have failed to deliver on the promises of enhanced scoring and improving the game’s look. Instead, we have confusion.

Kane Cornes
Kane Cornes

AFL columnist

The Premier League has exposed Postecoglou as a purist in an impure world

The Australian is running Tottenham with principle. But English football is not always good and nourishing, and Postecoglou is not always patient with deviation.

Emma Kemp
Emma Kemp

Sports reporter

Soccer

Basketball

An American journalist has been stood down after a strange exchange with women's basketball superstar Cailtin Clark.
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Journalist in trouble over awkward exchange

An American journalist has been stood down after a strange exchange with women's basketball superstar Cailtin Clark.

LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Josh Giddey.

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

Racing

Tennis

Alex De Minaur will look to break a barren spell for Australia’s men at Roland Garros.

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
Novak Djokovic is struck on the head by a water bottle.

‘Nausea, dizziness, blood’: Djokovic says bottle blow still affecting him after shock loss

The world No.1 was comfortably beaten in the third round of the Italian Open, two days after being struck on the head by a bottle that fell from a fan’s backpack.

  • by Simon Briggs

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