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AFL 2024
‘Prodigious talent’: Former Dockers and Giants player Cam McCarthy dies
Former teammates of Fremantle and GWS player Cam McCarthy will play with heavy hearts this weekend as they mourn the tragic death of the key forward at the age of 29.Â
- by Peter Ryan and Paddy Sweeney
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
Gale force heads to Tasmania; Newman fined over bump; Howe forward with Elliott out
- by Peter Ryan and Danny Russell
Updated
AFL 2024
Powell’s social media posts revealed after homophobic slur
- by Andrew Wu, Marnie Vinall and Michael Gleeson
AFL
Analysis
AFL 2024
‘It’s bigger than that’: The match the AFL wants to revive after a decade in the wilderness
The AFL is pushing to stage an Indigenous exhibition game on the eve of next season in a bid to address the decline in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander footballers playing the game.
- by Caroline Wilson
‘We had players close to not playing’: Grieving Dockers rocked by McCarthy’s death
Fremantle veterans Nat Fyfe, Luke Ryan and Alex Pearce fought back tears on Friday night as they remembered their good friend Cam McCarthy.
- by Justin Chadwick
Insight & Analysis
‘It’s bigger than that’: The match the AFL wants to revive after a decade in the wilderness
The AFL is pushing to stage an Indigenous exhibition game on the eve of next season in a bid to address the decline in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander footballers playing the game.
Caroline Wilson
Football columnist for The Age
Time for an Australian sporting superstar to be roasted
If it’s good enough for the great Tom Brady, it’s good enough for one of our own.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Rebels have handed RA an all-time hospital pass
Australian rugby has plenty of issues, but as the Rebels’ shambles shows, many have been self-inflicted.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
Cricket
Soccer
Sacked by a fifth division club, Kewell could now win Asia’s biggest prize
The Socceroos legend has taken the baton from Ange Postecoglou and Kevin Muscat at Japan’s Yokohama F. Marinos, who have reached the final of the AFC Champions League.
- by Vince Rugari
Mariners on track for grand final after punishing nine-man Sydney FC
Globetrotting Central Coast kept their treble hopes alive with a terrific 2-1 win at Allianz Stadium in the first leg of their semi-final.
- by Vince Rugari
Basketball
Racing
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Horse racing
Another big-name executive walks from Racing Victoria
A second big name has announced he is finishing up at Racing Victoria as the industry prepares for Gillon McLachlan; clubs fight to host All-Star Mile; super Cox Plate wish list.
- by Danny Russell
Race-by-race preview and tips for Newcastle on Saturday
Everything you need to know to find a winner on The Coast day.
- by Nick Berney
Tennis
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Reece Walsh is the star attraction for fans at Parramatta
The Broncos star is winning hearts and minds even in Sydney.
Why the China doping scandal has created a crisis of faith and suspicion
It must be traumatic for any athlete to discover, three years on, that they competed at an Olympics against rivals who, very likely, shouldn’t have been there.
- by Darren Kane
