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.
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Stabbed Don to attend big match
Samantha Lane Nathan Lovett-Murray has been told to rest for a week while his stab wounds heal, but remains intent on attending the Dreamtime match on Saturday.
We assumed foreign treatments were clean: doc
Samantha Lane Hugh Seward admits it has historically been 'assumed' - but not always reliably verified - that footballers who have travelled overseas to treat injuries had not breached anti-doping rules.
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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.
Bail for junior coach suspended for 'indecent dealings' with boy
Samantha Lane Reeling after a full-time employee, Mark Heaney, was charged for indecent dealings with a teenage boy, the AFL says it conducted appropriate background checks on the coach as recently as this year.
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League to quiz Carlton duo on secret recording
Samantha Lane AFL will conduct formal interviews with two members of Carlton's high performance team over recorded meeting they had last June with chemist who supplied substances for Essendon's supplements regimen.
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Judd takes one year, huge pay cut
Samantha Lane Committed and happy partners for the past six years, Chris Judd and Carlton have reached a turning point in their relationship. Contractually speaking at least.
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New haste in ASADA interviews
Samantha Lane ASADA's interrogation of Essendon players could be expedited, with the process expected to be completed significantly earlier than the forecast 12 weeks.
Pies told: 'pull your heads in'
Samantha Lane Dale Thomas questions wisdom of Darren Jolly airing details of his strained past with Josh Fraser.
Anstey slam dunks ASADA testing
Samantha Lane Australian basketball great describes ASADA as inept, hapless, comical and money wasting.
AFL
Dank not interviewed for Switkowski report into Bombers
Samantha Lane The mastermind of Essendon's supplements program was not interviewed or asked to contribute to the Ziggy Switkowski report commissioned to independently assess the internal processes and possible...
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Players' boss urges culture of reporting drug breaches
Samantha Lane The players' union boss is urging AFL players, historically reluctant to become whistleblowers, to adopt that responsibility so that suspect practices - including performance-enhancing drug-related...
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Andrew Demetriou threatened over drug crisis
Samantha Lane AFL boss Andrew Demetriou has revealed he has received serious threats during the drugs crisis engulfing the game.
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AFL to call Demons' doctor over Dank link
Samantha Lane Melbourne's doctor and other officials will be called before the AFL following claims the club had a relationship with the man at the centre of the Australian sport anti-doping investigation.
AFL acts on threats to Demetriou
Samantha Lane AFL acts on serious threats sent to chief over his handling of the drugs crisis.
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Demons' doctor stands down
Caroline Wilson and Samantha Lane Dan Bates stands down following revelations that he had worked with controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank.
Coaches must set example: AFLPA
Samantha Lane Players Association boss believes it is wrong for coaches to take performance-enhancing substances.
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AFL club officials taped on drug use
Samantha Lane AFL club officials recorded discussing use of human growth hormone in the game.
Scientist set to sue Demetriou
Samantha Lane EXCLUSIVE Defamation case expected to be lodged by Stephen Dank's legal team within a month.
AFL
Crisis, what crisis?
Samantha Lane Melbourne president Don McLardy has set a mid-year marker to review the club's on-field performance, describing an imminent meeting with Greater Western Sydney - when pressure will mount on embattled...
Codes treated the same: Lundy
Samantha Lane Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy has rejected claims the AFL is receiving preferential treatment to the NRL in the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority's investigations into the two football...
