Adam Cooper
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AFL
AFL says no power to strike deal with ASADA
Adam Cooper Andrew Demetriou confirms league inquired how players might beat two-year suspension.
AFL
AFL ponders earlier start to season to bolster northern markets
Adam Cooper Future AFL seasons could start earlier and expand to 25 home and away games.
AFL
Demetriou dismisses countdown clock idea
Adam Cooper AFL chief executive insists there is no chance of a countdown clock being installed at Etihad Stadium.
AFL
Call to ban alcohol ads in TV sports
Adam Cooper A Greens senator pushing for gambling advertising to be banned in the AFL, also wants the promotion of alcohol tbe outlawed in sports broadcasts.
AFL priorities were wrong, says Roos
Adam Cooper and Deborah Gough Ex-coach blames AFL for creating environment in which teams encouraged to perform poorly.
Football
Puzzled Newbold backs AFL boss
Adam Cooper Jeff Kennett's successor as Hawthorn president says the AFL has made some puzzling rulings.
Football
No 'plan B' for TV football
Adam Cooper Broadcasters have not devised plans should Essendon be unable to field a team in 2013.
Australian football
Integrity intact: Demons
Adam Cooper Dees slugged $500,000 for being responsible for two former officials who acted outside AFL rules in 2009.
AFL
AFL to go in hard to curb drug use
Adam Cooper AFL clubs will have their staff audited, sports science staff registered and be instructed to undertake mandatory reporting of any doping issue in an attempt to stamp out widespread illegal drug use...
Whistleblowers need anonymity
Adam Cooper Expert casts doubt on AFL's plans to encourage players to report suspicious activity.
AFL urges clubs: employ integrity officers
Adam Cooper AFL CHIEF executive Andrew Demetriou has urged clubs to employ their own integrity officers ahead of bolstering coaching panels in a bid to eradicate the problems similar to the supplement scandal...
Policy causes friction
Adam Cooper Depending on who you ask, AFL's drugs policy is a world leader, or soft on illegal substances.
AFL
Contentious drugs loophole to be closed
Adam Cooper AFL players will soon no longer be able to self-report their drug use to the league with impunity.
Magpies keen to work with clubs, AFL to fight drugs
Adam Cooper and Will Brodie Collingwood president Eddie McGuire says Pies want to encourage other clubs to address problem.
Bomber chief to stay on
Adam Cooper Essendon confirms that Ian Robson will stay on as chief executive.
A timeline on 'tanking' in the AFL
Compiled by Adam Cooper A timeline on the tanking issue in the AFL
