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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

31/7/14 Prince Alfred College's First XVIII players Harrison Wigg, Micah VanLoon, Bryce Woolard and Jack Elsworthy (at back) wearing their pink socks at Prince Alfred College, Hackney. Sorry for the lack of numbers on this assignment, we were hampered by the weather and time constraints.

PAC boys go pink for good cause

PRINCE Alfred College is adding a splash of pink to its traditional maroon sports kit this weekend all in the name of breast cancer awareness.

Port Adelaide

Butcher hospitalised with stomach bug

PORT Adelaide key forward John Butcher was hospitalised with gastro and couldn’t play against the Panthers on Saturday.

SANFL

Panthers topple Magpies by 17 points

SOUTH Adelaide moved a step closer to securing a finals berth after recording a gritty 17-point victory over Port Adelaide at Noarlunga.

Local Sport

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JULY 31: Rohan Dennis of Australia celebrates with his silver medal after the Men's Cycling Road Time Trial at during day eight of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 31, 2014 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

SA cyclist the bridesmaid again

BRENTON Dennis is proud of his son Rohan’s Commonwealth Games silver medal, but thinks the cyclist’s bridesmaid’s dress is “due for a dry clean”.

Local Footy

26/07/14 - Goodwood Saints Football Club A grade Vice Captains Aaron Bayliss, 28, of Cumberland Park and Tom Anderson, 25, of Brighton at a training session at Wigley Reserve in Glenelg. Photo Tom Huntley

Unbeaten Saints eye elusive flag

LADDER-leading Goodwood Saints coach Trent Mills knows too well amateur footy clubs do not win flags in July, August or even the second week of September.

West & Beaches

Al Green is planning to sue Woodville Basketball for unfair dismissal and defamation after being sacked as Warriors coach in May. He's now an assistant coach at Forestville. Al in his Playerz Store in the Myer Centre.

Al Green is a Warrior no longer

SA Basketball great Al Green will not return to Woodville Basketball Club after his ticket lost a vote to oust the committee that sacked him as coach.

Local Sport

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JULY 25: Silver medalists Jason Niblett and Kieran Modra of Australia on the podium during the medal ceremony for the MenÂ’s 1000m Time Trial B2 Tandem finalat Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome during day two of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on July 25, 2014 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

SA para-cyclist adds to medal haul

HALLETT Cove para-cycling veteran Kieran Modra shows no signs of slowing down, collecting two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

North & North East

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Tough stance on footy players behaving badly

AN Adelaide football league is maintaining its tough stance on players who behave badly, stripping nine premiership points from two teams in its latest ruling.

SANFL

Bloods in finals hunt after win over Sturt

WEST Adelaide kept its finals hopes alive and dealt Sturt’s top-three aspirations a blow after a four-point triumph at Richmond Oval on Saturday.

North & North East

Former Smithfield under-18 footy coach Dean Martin is serving an 18-month amateur league suspension for failing to stop umpire abuse. He says his team was unfairly dealt with and he's been made a scapegoat.

Dumped junior coach says he, young team ‘scapegoats’

A JUNIOR football coach sacked for failing to stop umpire abuse says he’s done nothing wrong — and his young team is shattered it’s been shut out of league.

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