Greg Baum

Greg Baum

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

How will the ball bounce this time?

Greg-Baum-sport-dinks

Greg Baum It should have gone straight. If it had, it would have led to honour and glory and an inviolable place in St Kilda legend and the history of the game. But it didn't.

AFL

Stop playing the man, fans want their boys to soar

Greg Baum Many moan that hands-free marking denies the game the spectacle of a show of strength. But should it not firstly be a test of skill?

Greg Baum

Taking the contact out of sport

Greg Baum As sensibilities change, so too are the crunching nature of our games.

Essendon's family faces the world

James Hird signs autographs at the Bombers' family day.

Greg Baum It was too hot for kicking footballs but not nearly too hot for a show of staunch football faith.

Dream achieved, Tarrant at ease

Chris Tarrant

Greg Baum The Magpies backman is leaving the game with no regrets.

A tally that has you saying 'G

MCG

Greg Baum The first VFL match at the MCG was played on May 15, 1897.

Greg Baum

Role models, or role players?

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

Greg Baum This week, for the second time in his short AFL career, Gold Coast's Joel Wilkinson was subject to racial vilification, this time from a Collingwood supporter.

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