Greg Baum

Greg Baum

Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age

Almost perfect, says delighted Hird

Greg Baum and Jake Niall Upbeat coach hails Essendon's defensive effort against Sydney as best of year.

No easy solutions and few winners in gambling probe

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Greg Baum Anomaly uncovered by Senator Nick Xenophon highlights conflicting forces in professional sport.

The harder they fall

Essendon.

Greg Baum Conservative, solid, even patrician: from the beginning, these words were associated with the Essendon Football Club.

The Brownlow of Jobe

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 24:  Jobe Watson of the Bombers poses with the Brownlow Medal during the 2012 Brownlow Medal at Crown Palladium on September 24, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Greg Baum Essendon captain Jobe Watson out-stays a packed field to win the 2012 Brownlow Medal.

Career on high beam for a devoted Pie

Blossoming: Dayne Beams.

Greg Baum Dayne Beams voluntarily withdrew from last year's grand final because of an injury.

Celebrating football's broadest church

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Greg Baum GWS on course to be first club to finish season with more leaders than premiership points.

'His life was a miracle. He should never have been an AFL footballer, but he became a legend.'

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Greg Baum Typically, Irish saints left their shores to spread Christianity throughout Europe.

Finding new goals down back

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Greg Baum It's about spending a career doing all the things you weren't taught to do as a kid.