Jake Niall
Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at The Age, specialising in AFL football. Jake joined The Age in 1998, having previously worked as a sports writer on The Sunday Age. He writes a blend of news, feature articles and a weekly column during the football season. Before joining The Sunday Age, Jake was a freelance reporter in the US and a regular contributor to The Sunday Age and The Age from Los Angeles, covering diverse areas like politics, earthquakes, celebrity trials and American sport. Jake ghost wrote the autobiography (‘Collingwood and Me’, 1991) of champion Collingwood footballer Peter Daicos. While he writes primarily about the AFL, he spends the month of January covering tennis, especially the Australian Open. In 2008, Jake won the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards' Best Sports Story in any medium for his profile piece on David Schwarz.
Young Saint's ACL fears
Jake Niall A St Kilda youngster has suffered a suspected torn anterior cruciate ligament at the club's altitude training camp in Colorado.
Young Saint's ACL fears
Jake Niall St Kilda youngster suffers suspected torn anterior cruciate ligament at club's camp in Colorado.
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Father knows best
Jake Niall On Brownlow eve, consider Jobe Watson's career and why he would be a deserving winner.
Six-day rule costs Swan two games
Martin Blake and Jake Niall Collingwood's hard-line decision based on a season-long ban on drinking alcohol six days before a game.
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Ablett's only win in 2012 may be a Brownlow
Jake Niall No footballer has ever won the Brownlow Medal in a team that hasn't won a single game.
Beams to stay with Pies
Jake Niall Collingwood midfielder has all but agreed to terms on a three-year contract extension.
Roos leap ahead, Blues just a hop away
Jake Niall Carlton and North Melbourne have taken turns at burial and resurrection.
The fame game
Jake Niall The politics of Hall of Fame induction could well mean if there's no advocate, there's no invite.
AFL
How Murdoch helped put Irish deal in the driver's seat
Jake Niall Of the many astonishing stories about the late Jim Stynes recounted in recent days, one has been entirely overlooked.
Magpies rule out Arizona return
Jake Niall Possibility of another trip to assist a small group of players not on agenda.
Tigers up and running
Jake Niall Richmond's 2012 revival seems more authentic than its previous soufflé-like rises.
Swans fail the test
JAKE NIALL and JON PIERIK SYDNEY'S once-promising premiership hopes have fallen in the past fortnight – their losses to Adelaide and the Tigers a sobering reminder they are vulnerable whenever they don't produce manic...
