Greg Baum

Greg Baum

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

How will the ball bounce this time?

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Greg Baum It should have gone straight. If it had, it would have led to honour and glory and an inviolable place in St Kilda legend and the history of the game. But it didn't.

A doubting Thomas

Sidelined no more: Josh Thomas has put a string of injuries behind him.

Greg Baum And with good cause, but four-game Magpie has spread his wings.

AFL

Last-quarter blitz gives Demons breathing space

Melbourne players celebrate after their first win.

Greg Baum Never in its 153-year history can Melbourne Football Club have reached a lower ebb than at three-quarter time at the MCG on Sunday.

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Taking the contact out of sport

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Greg Baum As sensibilities change, so too are the crunching nature of our games.

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.

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He who hesitates is lost, here endeth the lesson

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Greg Baum A footballer's instinct, training and obligation is to go for the ball, of course, but how?

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