Swans in the driver's seat to sink Pies
Greg Baum Sydney begins the indigenous round in style, with a 47-point defeat of Collingwood.
Swans break free from the Collingwood spell
Greg Baum The story of last night's finals football was told in one post-modern moment in the first quarter at Sydney's ANZ stadium.
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No room for smugness in long fight against bigotry
Greg Baum Two images from 20 years apart - both of an indigenous man, a footballer, pointing in the face of racism - suggest that nothing has changed; that we have gone nowhere, as a code, as a sport, as a...
Siren sounded on racism in football
Greg Baum Two images from 20 years apart suggest that nothing has changed.
Goodes 'gutted' after racial slur
Greg Baum and Michael Gleeson Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes said he was ‘gutted’ when a young fan called him an ‘ape’ in the dying minutes of his club’s win over Collingwood on Friday night.
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Hawks play straight men
Greg Baum All the goals that Hawthorn could not kick in last year's grand final, it kicked on Saturday.
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Richmond hangs on to emerge from history's cold shadow
Greg Baum More than 80,000 descended onto a floodlit MCG, here was the heart of football.
Hawks in the great escape
Greg Baum History nearly repeated for the Hawks until cool hands prevailed.
The 'G will divide and conquer
Greg Baum Some would have this grand final as a contest for Melbourne-Sydney honour. They are like uniformed Japanese sentries who, until the '70s, periodically emerged from the jungles of Malaysia, still...
Spirit of the Bloods leads to premiership
Greg Baum The Sydney Swans will never know how they won this premiership, except that it is the way they always win.
A new Bloods, still with its links to the old team and its culture
Greg Baum The Swans' popularity now transcends even Melbourne-Sydney sectarianism.
With a heave and a ho, Freo puts the Cats out
Greg Baum Frequently, the AFL finals are a new and self-contained season, not susceptible to the form or verities of the home-and-away rounds.
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Dockers remain upbeat despite disappointment
Greg Baum Adelaide rejoiced in its semi-final win on Friday night, but whatever the equal and opposite emotion is, it was not apparent in the Fremantle rooms.
Anguish and ecstasy in finals farewell
Greg Baum Semi-final victory hurt so good for Collingwood at the MCG last night. In yet another epic of football as tug-of-war, the Magpies dug in their heels to beat West Coast by 13 points.
Pies look to 2011 Cats as their form guide
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.
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Cats whet their appetite
Greg Baum Sydney did what Sydney does at Geelong — it threw the kitchen sink at the Cats.
Celebrating football's broadest church
Greg Baum GWS on course to be first club to finish season with more leaders than premiership points.
Orange people show faith as footy takes a giant leap
Greg Baum, Sydney The landing of a second team in Sydney, was the AFL's moonshot.
The best out of Sydney
Greg Baum Lenny Hayes was Sydney-born and bred, but into an Australian rules tradition.
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Contested possession not critical: Hopkins
Greg Baum Football stats pioneer says that contested possession is overrated as a measure of a good football team.
