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Matt Turner is a sports reporter for The Advertiser and CODE Sports who covers mainly AFL and basketball. He has been with News Corp for more than a decade, starting at The Messenger, where he was sports editor for two years. Matt isn’t to be confused with Matt Turner, the award-winning Advertiser photographer, who also shares the same middle name (James).

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SANFL

Ruthless Magpies too tough for drained Bloods

THEY entered the match with identical records but there was a distinct gap in class and work-rate in the clash between Port Adelaide and West Adelaide at Richmond on Saturday.

Local Sport

24/05/2015 Southern Football League - Reynella v Morphett Vale.Reynella full forward James McEntee on the lead.Pic Mark Brake

Forward on track for 135-goal season

JAMES McEntee is proof prolific goalkickers remain in vogue in the Southern Football League after kicking 57 majors in just eight matches this season.

Local Sport

20/05/15 - Emerging fencer Rachel Aistrope, who has just returned from competing in Uzbekistan Picture Dean Martin

Johnny Depp inspires SA teen’s Olympic dream

IT’S no surprise Rachel Aistrope is a Pirates of the Caribbean fan. Wielding a sword is natural to her as the state’s best under-23 female fencer.

Local Sport

29/05/15 South Adelaide women's basketballer Ashleigh

Panthers return for US college star

SOUTH Adelaide’s Ashleigh Spencer had no idea what to expect when she received a basketball scholarship to attend Hannibal-LaGrange University in rural Missouri.

Norwood

Norwood hold off upset at Prospect Oval

IT WAS scrappy, slippery and at times feisty, but an inaccurate Norwood did enough to outlast North Adelaide in a six-point thriller at Prospect Oval.

Local Sport

21/05/15 - Dan Ward was hit by a truck on the Southeastern Freeway five years ago, was lucky to survive and doctors told him he'd never play footy again. But this month he made a one-off comeback for Hope Valley - the club where he was A grade captain at the time of the incident. Picture Dean Martin

Footballer returns to field after being hit by truck

DAN Ward simply wanted to retire from football on his own terms. That’s why he returned to the field for Hope Valley five years after being hit by a truck on the South Eastern Freeway.

South

11/04/15. Aldinga Sharks v Marion Rams. Rams players Aaron De Reuver and Thomas Drew. Pic. Noelle Bobrige

How many 100-point thrashings is enough?

WHEN losing by 10 goals or more becomes the norm, not an exception is it time to swap competition? Some in an Adelaide footy league say it is, but others don’t agree. TAKE OUR POLL

Local

Weekly Times Football. AFL match day Sherrin Footy generic pictures. Picture: Eugene Hyland

‘You can’t coach our kids again until 2017’

A JUNIOR football coach in Adelaide has been banned until 2017 after a tribunal found he failed to stop an on-field brawl — and he’s “bitterly disappointed”.

Local Sport

Gabriella Vidmar's parents are Socceroos assistant and former Australian/Adelaide United soccer player Aurelio Vidmar, and ex-Adelaide Thunderbird Sarah Vidmar - yet she is pursuing basketball and has made the state under-16 team. [PIC] Aurelio, Gabi & Sarah at their Lockleys home. pic by Bianca De Marchi - 15.5.15

Vidmar chooses hoops over goals

HER parents are former soccer and netball stars but Gabi Vidmar has become a state junior basketballer.

Local Sport

Grade Cricket. Prospect v Adelaide, at Prospect Oval. (Game called off due to rain). Christian Hanna (Prospect).

Coach departs as Pirates plot course for progress

PROSPECT District Cricket Club is searching for a new coach after agreeing to part ways with Christian Hanna.

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