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‘A massive adrenaline rush’: From Aussie rules to US college stardom

Prized for their long-range kicking skills, Australian footballers are taking a punt on sporting glory in America.

  • Sarah Smiles Persinger

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Kevin Sheedy and Leigh Matthews at the Shrine of Remembrance this week.

How Kevin Sheedy’s 1977 miskick sparked a 30-year Anzac Day tradition

Kevin Sheedy was pottering in his garden and focusing on ways to promote the game when he had the brainwave that birthed a blockbuster.

  • Scott Spits
Collingwood influencers Paul Licuria (front left), Jodie Sizer , Eddie McGuire, Jordan De Goey (back left), and Sally Capp.

‘Never talked about this’: The power struggle that moved a Collingwood great to tears

Money is not a pressing concern for Collingwood, but the Magpies have grappled with a more destructive force.

  • Stephen Brook
Stonnington Mayor Jami Klisaris and John Gandel at the opening of Chadstone’s entertainment precinct The Social Quater two years ago.

The reclusive Melbourne billionaire spotted out twice in two days

A party at his favourite caterers and an expansion of his cherished retail project was enough to tempt one of Melbourne’s most respected figures into going public.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Celebrating The Big Group, cabaret-style.

Bruce and Chyka Keebaugh told their guests to arrive by 6pm. Then a spot fire broke out

Melebrities last night celebrated the 35th anniversary of Bruce and Chyka Keebaugh’s The Big Group, but the night was not without some drama.

  • Stephen Brook
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
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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift at last year’s Super Bowl.

Everyone who matters is at the Super Bowl, Eddie McGuire tells us. Except Eddie McGuire

Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans is contemporary culture’s neutron star. This year, all eyes will be on the corporate socials for box billionaire Anthony Pratt and his son Leon.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Mick Gatto has staged an intervention in the Werribee byelection.

Why Mick Gatto thinks politicians should be charged with perjury

The underworld figure and former boxer is spruiking a policy of self-defence classes in high schools in the Werribee byelection.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Joe McGuire.

Collingwood connection: How sons of AFL identities made it to one of the biggest games in American sport

Joe McGuire, son of Eddie McGuire, and James Rendell, son of the late Matt Rendell, will punt for opposing teams in the national championship game next Tuesday, the pinnacle of US college football.

  • Steve Larkin
Sam McClure (centre) is returning to The Age.

Seven reveals new host for agenda-setting AFL show, as Age makes a splash

A familiar face says it’s an honour to return to Seven next season, hosting a new panel football show that will go head-to-head with Footy Classified, as The Age prepares to welcome back an AFL news breaker.

  • Jon Pierik

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