Players are eyeing a slice of the AFL’s new $2.5billion broadcast deal, pledging to fight for their share of the latest cash windfall. With a new collective bargaining agreement due …
Darren Lehmann walks into a stadium alongside Roy Hodgson, coach of England’s football side. It sounds an awful lot like the beginning of a joke at the expense of Australia’s …
Once they were the most troubled muscles in the AFL, but Cyril Rioli says a few simple tricks have put his hamstring woes to bed. Rioli’s six goals against Geelong …
Matthew Egan knows better than most what James Hird meant when the departing Essendon coach spoke about AFL adversity. Egan will take over from Hird as the Bombers’ interim senior …
Essendon star Brendon Goddard has hailed James Hird as a potentially great AFL coach and hopes his departure is the right decision. Goddard has admitted to shock and disappointment that …
Richmond veteran Chris Newman will retire at the end of this AFL season. The former captain told the club’s playing group on Tuesday of his decision to bow out once …
NOTABLE QUOTES AS JAMES HIRD LEAVES ESSENDON: “Paul said it was the board’s opinion (that) the football club would never be truly free of the ASADA issue while I was …
Essendon coach James Hird has fallen on his sword, with chairman Paul Little and the rest of the AFL club’s board holding the blade steady. Hird’s 25-year AFL career ended …
West Coast’s Chris Masten has been suspended two games by the AFL tribunal for biting Fremantle’s Nic Suban. Masten’s ban follows Docker defender Alex Silvagni being outed by the tribunal …
The AFL has inked the biggest broadcast deal in the history of Australian sport, signing a $2.5 billion broadcast agreement on Tuesday. It trumps the NRL’s latest broadcast deal, prompting …
Josh Hazlewood’s hopes of playing the fifth Ashes Test have nosedived. Hazlewood was unable to train on Tuesday due to sore shins. The 24-year-old took part it in a throwing …
He was the golden boy as a player who was meant to turn into Essendon’s saviour as a coach. Instead, James Hird will be forever remembered as one of the …
Fremantle’s Alex Silvagni has been banned four games by the AFL tribunal for his behind-play hit on West Coast’s Jamie Cripps. Silvagni told the tribunal he’s embarrassed at striking Cripps …
The AFL has inked the biggest broadcast deal in the history of Australian sport, signing a whopping $2.508 billion broadcast deal on Tuesday. AFL and broadcast executives have agreed on …
Losing co-captain Phil Davis for the season has been rated a massive blow by Greater Western Sydney heading into the most significant Sydney AFL derby yet. The 10th-placed Giants are …
In a supreme test for rugby league’s new and controversial shoulder charge laws, three NRL players will fight their bans at the judiciary. For the first time since the governing …
South Sydney have turned to former bad boy Paul Carter to solve their hooking crisis while Bulldogs third-string rake Damien Cook will make just his fifth NRL appearance in Friday’s …
Chris Rogers personified patience, at the crease and as he waited five and a half years for a Test recall. Now the retiring Rogers has asked national selectors to show …


