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Travis Cloke has called time on his AFL career, even though he was still proficient in 2017 and claims to still have the desire to play on. The veteran key forward played for the Western Bulldogs this season and the club confirmed that Cloke was moving on to another phase in his life in an…

How do you move on from a successful footy career and live to become one of the richest people in all of down under? Start by delivering booze to parties on a scooter, split a 124-game AFL career between the Brisbane Lions and the Melbourne Demons, and then found an exploding software company. We delivered…

The Collingwood Magpies generally make quite a splash during the trade period, but they were mostly absent in 2017, the reason being that they are supposedly biding time in the long-term quest to have the ability to make a big play for The Gold Coast Sun’s Tom Lynch following the 2018 AFL season. Out of…

After 162 regular-season games, wildcard games and two playoff series, MLB has finally reached the World Series and this year it will be the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Houston Astros. Prior to 2013, such a matchup would have been impossible, as for the first 51 seasons of their existence, the Houston Astros were a…

The All Blacks will start New Zealand flyhalf Lima Sopoaga in the third Bledisloe Cup match against Australia at Brisbane on Saturday. Sopoaga will wear the No. 10 jersey for just the second time in a career that has seen him in 12 Tests. He will start for the first time since 2015, when he…

If the opinion of Australian Test cricket great Adam Gilchrist were to be given credence, it would pay to keep an eye on Matt Renshaw during the Ashes. Gilchrist feels that Renshaw has the ability to wait for the proper moment in a game between evenly matched teams, something that could prove decisive. Gilchrist was…

The AFLW got off to a good jump last year and the serach is on for new players ahead of the 2018 AFLW season. The draft for next season is imminent and there are some highly sought players. Young Isabel Huntingdon is considered a once in a generation player. Just 18, she has the skills…

The sands of the hourglass are running down, with just days remaining in the AFL trade period, many players face uncertain futures as the game of brinkmanship goes into full effect. Luke Hodges is one of those impacted. The announcement that he was ready to unretire from the game and move to a role with…

It was no secret that the Port Adelaide Power has been on the prowl for players to shore up its list, given that the Power did not have quite enough of themselves to make it to the line in the 2017 AFL Premiership competition. They were willing to surrender pick 19 of the national draft…

Gary Ablett, Patrick Dangerfield, Nat Fyfe. Brownlow Medal winners all. The other common trait the three men share is that they will rep for Australia in the International Rules series. Reigning Brownlow Medallist and Norm Smith Medallist Dustin Martin, however, has chosen no to play. He is perhaps the most notable absence from the just…