Bruce McAvaney
How Bruce McAvaney helped Adelaide snare the AFL Gather Round
McAvaney had a hand in the event going to South Australia, although he tried to play it down at Channel Seven’s big reveal of its expanded football coverage.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Latest
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- AFL 2025
Seven announces commentary line-ups and McAvaney’s return for 2025
Channel Seven has announced its commentary line-ups for the upcoming season and a return for Australian sports broadcasting legend Bruce McAvaney to the network’s football coverage.
- Scott Spits and Claire Siracusa
Was it worth it? The modest sum Laura Tingle pocketed for explosive writers’ festival remarks
The ABC journalist’s comments at the Sydney Writers’ Festival this year raised plenty of culture war ire but weren’t much of a money raiser.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
- Opinion
- The Fitz Files
I’m calling it: Why ‘marvellous’ moments in sports commentary are dying out
Where are the Benauds, the Comettis, and the Warrens of the new generation? It might be the case that the talent is there, but we’re just not listening like we used to.
- Peter FitzSimons
New premier, not-so-new PM, old rocker: Inside the AFL grand final lunch
AFL chair Richard Goyder presided but stuck to talking about football rather than embattled Qantas, which he also chairs.
- Cara Waters and Lachlan Abbott
- The Scoop
- AFL 2023
McAvaney reveals the best team, player and athlete he’s ever seen
Bruce McAvaney famously kept his opinions to himself during his commentary, instead choosing to let his supreme skills do the talking. But The Scoop has pinned down the media maestro.
- Sam McClure
Steroids, money and state wars: The demise of the Australian Cup
Bruce McAvaney has seen plenty of Australian Cups, but admits it’s no longer the classic race it once was.
- Damien Ractliffe
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- AFL 2023
McLachlan’s parting gift as AFL CEO; McAvaney inducted into Australian Football Hall of Fame
The AFL made a special announcement at their season launch inducting the legendary broadcaster to the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
- Scott Spits and Peter Ryan
- Analysis
- Melbourne Cup
Not even Eddie could arrest ratings decline: The good, bad and ugly of the Melbourne Cup
The good, bad and ugly of a chilly Melbourne Cup Day, and how some viewers missed the race that stops the nation.
- Damien Ractliffe
- Opinion
- AFL 2022
Latest rant over Daisy Pearce just a bad call
Five years later, some men still get their knickers in a twist over a woman AFL commentator. Sorry, their jockstraps.
- Greg Baum
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