Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane is a sports writer with The Age's sports section. She joined The Sunday Age's sports team in 2005, where she specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, before joining the daily Age in 2007. She has a wealth of multi-media broadcasting experience since starting her journalism career in 2002 at www.afl.com.au. She is also a panellist on Network Ten's Before the Game. Samantha covered the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will be reporting extensively on the 2012 London Olympics.

AFL

Tigers get Grange's golden touch

Pippa Grange

Samantha Lane The woman leading Swimming Australia through its culture crisis, Dr Pippa Grange, has started working at Richmond with a charter to instil premiership-winning characteristics in the success-starved...

Anstey slam dunks ASADA testing

Chris Anstey

Samantha Lane Australian basketball great describes ASADA as inept, hapless, comical and money wasting.

Blues keen on a Princes Park revival

Princess Park.

Samantha Lane Carlton wants to host matches for premiership points at its traditional Princes Park home again.

Football

The luckiest man counts his blessings

Flying high: Swan Mitch Morton celebrates a second quarter goal.

Samantha Lane Mitch Morton finally achieves his life-long ambition of playing in a premiership team.

Carlton plays waiting game with Jamison

Samantha Lane Club says it's ''not impossible'' it would field best defender for opening home-and-away clash with Richmond.

Football

Peterson hopes for one more shot

Samantha Lane Carl Peterson says he's better set now for AFL than he was during his unfulfilled career.