Greg Baum

Greg Baum

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

Haunted Demons fans are ready to give up the ghost

Greg Baum In its support profile, Melbourne Football Club often is portrayed as a split personality.

Draft tales: boys becoming men

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Greg Baum Emma Quayle's The Draft follows five draftees and their time in the AFL cauldron.

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.

The brown and gold rush

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Greg Baum Hawthorn's two tumbles from grace have reminded fans to cherish what they have.

Like it or lump it, football is back

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Greg Baum It is just 139 days since the last grand final, and already it is fusty history. What matters now is that it is only 227 to the next.

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Dogs unleash winning form at long last

Time to celebrate: Luke Dahlhaus is thrilled with the Bulldog victory.

Greg Baum For the Western Bulldogs, the result of this slog of a match mattered.

AFL

Accidents do happen, and are often unavoidable

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Greg Baum The match review panel has developed such a mania for finding not just cause, but culpability in every heart-in-mouth happening on the football ground that it is wonder it did not prefer a charge of...

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AFL

Dawning of a brand new day

Essendon player Nathan Lovett-Murray

Greg Baum Essendon and Richmond, the traditional owners of this most joyous of AFL theme matches, have had their recent dark days - Richmond's in particular are the stuff of mythology - but this night met as...