Tim Lane
Tim Lane is a columnist for the Sunday Age.
Opinion
AFL 2020
Sport Thought: an ode to Moorabbin
Football's process of "ground rationalisation", as it was known in the 1980s, was an emotional saga. For thousands of fans, to lose their home ground was to lose part of their personal history.
- by Tim Lane
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Opinion
Boxing Day Test
Sport Thought: Cricket's most provocative word will always pop up somewhere
The sustained use of leg-side bowling and field-placements in Perth was like nothing I’ve previously seen on an Australian Test ground.
- by Tim Lane
Opinion
Australian cricket
Sport Thought: Smith needs a word to the wise when it comes to captaincy
The moment of truth – when Steve Smith becomes eligible to resume a leadership role in the team – lies ahead.
- by Tim Lane
Analysis
AFL grand final
The yellow-and-black hand of fate
Every so often a football season unfolds that, with hindsight, only ever had one ending. Richmond's triumph is one of inevitability.
- by Tim Lane
Expansion into the heartland: What an AFL team would mean for Tasmania
Chris Fagan, a proud Tasmanian who now coaches the Brisbane Lions, spoke with Tim Lane about a Tasmanian team in the AFL.
- by Tim Lane
Analysis
The Ashes
Sport Thought: Never fear, Smith is here
At Edgbaston, the trauma of Cape Town in March 2018 was consigned to the vault of distant memories.
- by Tim Lane
Opinion
Wimbledon
Tim Lane: Feasting at the banquet of sporting glory
And on the seventh day we rested? Cricket, football, tennis and more, this past week has been a feast for sports fans.
- by Tim Lane
AFL: Forget Queensland, more Tasmanians are tuning in to the footy
Around 50 per cent more Tasmanians than Queenslanders are watching AFL on TV.
- by Roy Masters and Tim Lane
Opinion
Vale
Vale Mike Williamson - the voice of the first epoch of TV footy commentary
The effect of Mike Williamson's technique, if you could call it technique – because his style was somehow lighter than any commentary heard since – magnified the occasion.
- by Tim Lane
Sport Thought: Revisiting Tasmania's days of cricketing glory
Football had long been well ahead of cricket in Tasmania, but in 1979 their respective graphs crossed. Cricket keeps moving north; football continues to tank.
- by Tim Lane
Opinion
Shane Warne
Sport Thought: 24 years on, Shane Warne is still giving me grief
This is a story about journalistic practice and how there’s not necessarily a shelf-life on the discomfort caused by careless reporting. Even in sport.
- by Tim Lane
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