The AFL has announced its broadcast rights for 2012 through to 2016. The amount was a staggering $1.253 billion for that five year period -- the biggest deal in the history of Australian sports broadcasting, writes Leigh Josey.
Game-in-a-Box creator Pat Byrne dissects the Broncos versus the Tigers.
Take a look at this video from the ABC’s coverage of yesterday’s VFL match between Collingwood and Werribee. Majak Daw, the first Sudanese-born player drafted by an AFL club kicks a magic goal, writes Leigh Josey.
They’re a great idea these portable pissoirs, but for God’s sake let’s put them where they’re needed.
While its high profile players have had various troubles over the summer, the AFL PR machine has been hard at work in the "off season", especially in its attempts to rejuvenate the public perception of AFL boss, Andrew Demetriou.
It's the article everyone is talking about: Anna Krien delves inside the dangerous game of sex and treatment of women in the AFL, in light of the St Kilda Schoolgirl scandal.
After being beaten by the Bulldogs last week and the Sea Eagles in round two, the Sydney Roosters would have been determined to get this game over a weakened Wests Tigers, says Pat Byrne, creator of Game-in-a-box.
The ABC rebutts claims by the AFL that it had effectively bought the right to control which state league matches got screened by the national broadcaster, in breach of editorial independence.
The fine line between career disaster and wondrous acclaim was still distinct, flickering along with Wrest Point’s gaudy metronomic invitation to the pleasures of the casino punt, writes Lindsay Tuffin, a former News Ltd journalist.
In this week's Game-in-a-box, Pat Byrne covers the Newcastle Knights vs the Manly Sea Eagles.
