Caroline Wilson

Caroline Wilson has been chief football writer for The Age since 1999. She was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football on a full-time basis and the first woman to win the AFL's gold media award. She has won the AFL Players Association's football writer of the year (1999) and the AFL Media Association's most outstanding football writer and most outstanding feature writer (2000, 2003, 2005). She also won a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award in 2003.

Dons take positive approach

Emma Quayle and Caroline Wilson Club officials reportedly hopeful of receiving some good news in the next 48 hours.

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Hawk linked to bikies in supply deal

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Caroline Wilson FORMER Hawthorn and All Australian player Trent Croad was involved in discussions about a peptide supply deal linked to an outlaw bikie gang, in the latest revelation to emerge in the sport...

Ex-Bombers left out of the loop by club

Caroline Wilson Suddenly Essendon became the national face of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Ex-Hawk in deal to sell peptides

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Caroline Wilson Former Hawthorn and All Australian player Trent Croad was involved in a peptide supply deal linked to an outlaw bikie gang, in the latest revelation to emerge in the sport supplement scandal.

Hird at risk as AFL admits Bombers at the centre of scandal

Caroline Wilson The football future of Essendon's favourite son and the man who gave up a comfortable post-playing retirement to lead his club back to glory now hangs in the balance.

League seeks answers from ACC on player phone taps

Caroline Wilson, Matt Murnane THE AFL Players' Association will seek clarification from the Australian Crime Commission amid concerns that some players have been the targets of phone tapping.

Player unease over phone taps

Matt Murnane and Caroline Wilson AFL Players Association to seek clarification amid concerns players phones may have been tapped by Australian Crime Commission.

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Hird future hangs in the balance

Caroline Wilson The football future of Essendon's favourite son and the man who gave up a comfortable retirement to lead his club back to glory now hangs in the balance.

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Seven clubs vulnerable on drugs

Caroline Wilson At least seven AFL clubs were named in a confidential briefing to competition chiefs by the Australian Crime Commission as having illicit drug problems.

Football

Dons in the gun over practices

Caroline Wilson The high-performance program at Essendon Football Club came under the scrutiny of the Australian Crime Commission and was one key element of the damning report released on Thursday.

Anti-doping agencies have dropped the ball

Caroline Wilson IT IS beyond doubt that Essendon adopted unusual and irresponsible practices in transforming so much of its football program into a body-building laboratory during 2012.

AFL

Players' boss comes out swinging at scientists

Caroline Wilson AFL players' boss Matt Finnis has declared war on maverick sports scientists as disturbing evidence continued to unfold of unusual chemical practices undertaken last year at Essendon.

AFL

War on sports scientists

Caroline Wilson AFLPA boss Matt Finnis declares war on maverick sports scientists as disturbing evidence continues to unfold of unusual chemical practices undertaken in 2012 at Essendon.

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Would you want your son playing AFL footy?

Caroline Wilson Imagine yourself right now as the parent of a young Essendon footballer. Or the parent of a young Melbourne player in 2009. Or maybe your son is called Kurt Tippett.

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AFL

Players voiced concerns

Caroline Wilson Senior Essendon players demanded assurances from coaching and medical staff before being administered controversial substances at centre of performance-enhancing drug investigation.

AFL

Tigers clawing back Edwards

Caroline Wilson Richmond's Shane Edwards embroiled in tug-of-war between Tigers and indigenous All-Stars team in the lead-up to Friday's exhibition game in Alice Springs.

Caroline Wilson

Dream team's nightmare

Caroline Wilson That the Essendon Football Club and its multimillion-dollar football department and dream team of coaches allowed its team to be hijacked by so-called sports scientists has been a massive issue for...