Greg Baum

Greg Baum

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

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Leaders must act or risk whole fragile alliance falling apart

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Greg Baum An amateur football club I know has the same theme song as St Kilda.

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Cereal thriller: breakfast with Mick and Bucks

Carlton coach Mick Malthouse and Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley.

Greg Baum Charity breakfast ahead of grudge match takes on the air of a weigh-in.

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Magpies have the final say

Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury celebrates his goal that sealed the match.

Greg Baum Mick and the Magpies never did cross paths at the MCG on Sunday.

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Richmond hangs on to emerge from history's cold shadow

Luke McGuane

Greg Baum More than 80,000 descended onto a floodlit MCG, here was the heart of football.

Different club, but same old grumpy Malthouse

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Greg Baum Twelve days apart, at Princes Park, two Carlton coaches faced the media music.

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Shifty shades of Blue

Brett Ratten.

Greg Baum Ruthless Carlton is changing again and forever in a hurry.

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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.

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Tigers are stirring

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick.

Greg Baum Damien Hardwick is confident of lifting his youngsters to new heights.

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Footy business a meet market

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Greg Baum Long before two sides meet, a lot of meetings have taken place.

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Round 1 goes to the Hawks in soaring win

Buddy Franklin reaches for a mark at the MCG last night.

Greg Baum Usually, a football season takes the form of a crescendo. The 2012 season is only a week old, and already is touching climactic heights.

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Command performance

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley.

Greg Baum Nathan Buckley knows his role at Collingwood and, as always, plays it well.

Anguish of the shouldabeens

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Greg Baum There is no premiership so coveted as the one that can never be won.

Magpie thrives in whole new ball game

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