Greg Baum

Greg Baum

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

Dream achieved, Tarrant at ease

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

The Brownlow of Jobe

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 24:  Jobe Watson of the Bombers poses with the Brownlow Medal during the 2012 Brownlow Medal at Crown Palladium on September 24, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Greg Baum Essendon captain Jobe Watson out-stays a packed field to win the 2012 Brownlow Medal.

Career on high beam for a devoted Pie

Blossoming: Dayne Beams.

Greg Baum Dayne Beams voluntarily withdrew from last year's grand final because of an injury.

Footy is no longer small beer

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Greg Baum The rewards from playing AFL football make the sacrifices worthwhile, or do they?

Pies look to 2011 Cats as their form guide

Collingwood says its rousing semi-final victory over West Coast last Saturday indicates that it is rising as a sustainable force in the finals series, as Geelong did last year.

Greg Baum Collingwood says its rousing semi-final victory over West Coast last Saturday indicates that it is rising as a sustainable force in the finals series, as Geelong did last year.

Magpies hang on in an epic tug-of-war

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Greg Baum For the whole of the final frantic minute, the Eagles could well have reversed that result.

Celebrating football's broadest church

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Greg Baum GWS on course to be first club to finish season with more leaders than premiership points.

Football

Carlton passes test and hands out a lesson

AFL Round 3 Carlton v Collingwood.Carlton's Chris Judd gets away from Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury at the MCG. 13th April 2012.Picture Sebastian Costanzo. The Age.

Greg Baum This was football as VCE. The big test is at the end of the year, but there are interim tests too.

AFL

Heart-stopper

Bombers forward Leroy Jetta lays a strong tackle on Magpie Alex Fasolo.

Greg Baum Seventeen years after Collingwood and Essendon drew in what is called the start of the Anzac Day footy tradition, they played themselves to an epic standstill again.

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Magpie thrives in whole new ball game

Greg Baum In many ways, Scott Pendlebury looks what he is, a basketballer playing football.