Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane is a sports writer with The Age's sports section. She joined The Sunday Age's sports team in 2005, where she specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, before joining the daily Age in 2007. She has a wealth of multi-media broadcasting experience since starting her journalism career in 2002 at www.afl.com.au. She is also a panellist on Network Ten's Before the Game. Samantha covered the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will be reporting extensively on the 2012 London Olympics.
AFL
Women in line to join AFL ranks
Samantha Lane Pioneer football coach Peta Searle and the man who helped her break a glass ceiling, Gary Ayres, do not doubt that women will join AFL coaching ranks.
AFL
AFL sees the light on women's footy
Samantha Lane A match under lights at the MCG in June will be a contest between two AFL clubs unlike any before. In an historic curtain-raiser, women will play for Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs before a...
Olympics aim at footy
Samantha Lane New Australian Sports Commission boss wants to foster initiative that helped transform British sport.
Footy rejects targeted for Olympic sports
Samantha Lane ON THE verge of announcing a master plan to rectify Australia's plummeting performance in international sport, the Australian Sports Commission wants to target rejected young footballers and redirect...
AFL
Bid to lure AFL youth to Olympics
Samantha Lane Australian Sports Commission wants to direct young football rejects towards Olympic pursuits.
Crows reassure Joyce
Samantha Lane Crow who could have been victim in contractual dealings told he will be back on primary list.
Galbally queries legal teams
Samantha Lane Kurt Tippett's lawyer concerned that Adelaide and the AFL have employed same law firm.
Football
The luckiest man counts his blessings
Samantha Lane Mitch Morton finally achieves his life-long ambition of playing in a premiership team.
Samantha Lane
The long haul
Samantha Lane It has taken years for this Bomber turned Sydney Swan to achieve overnight success.
For Guerra, it ends in tears
Samantha Lane A torn hamstring appears to have ruined Brent Guerra's season at the climax.
Inside Lane
Revolution now
Samantha Lane Peta Searle fits the prototype of unlikely-looking revolutionary. Whippet-thin, 154 centimetres tall, welcoming and mild-mannered, she is waiting for a load of washing to finish and anticipating the...
