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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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Local Sport

Former Collingwood star Leon Davis is lining up for division four footy club Kenilworth on Saturday. [PIC] Leon with his son Levi (8yrs), at Kenilworth Football Club, St Marys. pic by Bianca De Marchi - 14.5.1

Ex-Magpie Davis lines up for amateur club

LEON Davis’s face lights up when he talks about his son Levi wearing the number one guernsey in junior games for Kenilworth Football Club.

City

Leon still playing footy and loving it

FORMER Collingwood star Leon Davis knows a thing or two about surprise football retirements.

Local Sport

Lions honour favourite son

A LOYAL gentleman with a tireless devotion to SMOSH West Lakes Football Club. That is how friends have remembered Rodney “John Boy” Moody, who passed away last month.

Local Sport

01-04-14 - Port Adelaide Cricket Club veteran Matthew Weeks played in the club's first A-grade flag since 1967/68 at the weekend. A week earlier, his first son, Lewis, was born. His wife Tessa in some photos. Picture Dean Martin

Magpies great appointed player-coach

PORT Adelaide Cricket Club has appointed former captain and premiership all-rounder Matthew Weeks as player-coach.

Local Sport

Woods Panthers goal shooter Asha Thurlow, 17, is a former state beach volleyballer and Australian junior volleyballer. Now she's a state under-19 netballer and the fourth highest scorer in the Premier League. Pic: Tricia Watkinson

Shooting star benefits from code switch

FORMER Australian junior volleyballer Asha Thurlow is making her towering presence felt in Premier League netball.

North & North East

s07le202 YVMDFL (Div 2): Seville v kinglake Generic mud picture.

Striking, misconduct lands footballer life ban

AN amateur footballer from a beleaguered club has copped a league life ban after being found guilty of striking and misconduct.

Gold Coast

Glenn’s foot still on pedal

THE distance between Gold Coast’s Metricon Stadium and Elizabeth Football Club is more than 2000km.

South

11/05/2015 Stephen Keam was sacked as Happy Valley Football Club's coach just four rounds into the season. Pic Mark Brake

Footy coach sacked 4 games into season

AN Adelaide footy club has sacked its coach just four games into a winless season. The blindsided mentor’s described the move as “pretty drastic”. The club says he’s too old-school.

North & North East

20/04/2015 Pirates Soccer Club has donated soccer boots and equipment to Northern Territory club Borroloola Cycolnes. Pirate juniors Jayden 6 and Mitchell 5 Crabb with some of the boots donated. Pic Mark Brake

Brawl sidelines footy team — now it waits for fate

AN Adelaide footy team sidelined at the weekend after an on-field brawl will have to wait until tomorrow to see when players will be able to pull their boots back on.

Local Sport

01/05/15 - South Adelaide's American import Jeremy Smith is leading the league in scoring. He's regarded as an athletic, high-leaping and explosive player. Picture Dean Martin

US basketball import is hurricane-proof

BASKETBALL courts were few and far between for Jeremy Smith after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 – a decade on he is leading scorer in SA’s top flight.

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