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2026-08-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Essendon claim heritage was not a factor, but McVeigh’s return feels like a homecoming

🔮 Despite Essendon president Andrew Welsh’s insistence that Mark McVeigh’s Bombers heritage had little bearing on his appointment as coach, his unveiling could not have felt more like a homecoming. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Kings of the close ones: How the Western Bulldogs found a superpower after losing a superstar

🔮 Once that initial heartache dulled, it soon became apparent to the third-season midfielder how much tougher this season would become for the Western Bulldogs. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Only one of the Serong boys will reach the grand final this year. Their mum is already taking sides

🔮 On Friday night at the SCG, Tania and Jamie Serong and their family will gather in the Fremantle rooms for a presentation in recognition of their son Caleb’s 150th game for the Dockers. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Whatever you paid, it was worth it’: The agony and the ecstasy of the game of the season

🔮 Most importantly, football lovers were given a contest, a nerve-jangler with savage momentum swings that left them guessing until the final seconds as to which team would come back to this venue next Saturday to take on minor premiers Fremantle to lift the cup. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Banned Swans eligible to win best and fairest, but won’t be there to accept it if they do

🔮 The Swans have opted against scrubbing any of their five suspended players from claiming the club’s highest individual honour, the Bob Skilton Medal, which will be awarded at a function on Thursday night. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Fremantle’s first coach is in Botswana on grand final day. It sums up the quirky Dockers

🔮 When the first siren sounds at the MCG on Saturday, Gerard Neesham will be in either the sandy savannah of the Kalahari Desert or a lodge in Maun, a village in Botswana that is the gateway for tourists on safari to the Okavango Delta. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The Dockers had one hand on the premiership cup. Then came four minutes that turned the grand final

🔮 When the bells tolled for Wharfie Time with just over four minutes left in this epic grand final, few, if any, of the 100,023 crammed into the MCG could have imagined what they would see next. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Just be careful, they’re on you’: Inside cricket’s greatest scandal

🔮 When Cameron Bancroft made the seismic decision on March 24, 2018, to take a small sheet of sandpaper out of his pocket and attempt to scuff up the ball, he should have known he would never get away with it. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

AFL trade period LIVE: Day two of trade period, mega-deal could be in the works for Butters, Marshall wants out

🔮 Marshall, 30, informed the Saints last week that he would not be attending the Trevor Barker Award function at Crown’s Palladium, saying he didn’t feel valued by the club and didn’t feel it was appropriate to attend while his trade request was in limbo. Marshall has played 177 games for the Saints over a 10-year stretch. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Our cameras will be sharp’: Ball-tampering scandal used to promote Test series in South Africa

🔮 South African cricket’s broadcast partner is using footage from the infamous ball-tampering scandal to promote coverage for the upcoming Test series, in an indication of the hot reception Australia will receive over the next month. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The uni students’ project that has business groups riled – and cricket happy

🔮 Piper said CV had attracted 35 more fans than they would have otherwise, “but I hope they’re self-employed and not being paid by Victorian employers to be there”. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Swans frosty as Blakey departs for North Melbourne with an apology

🔮 When Will Hayward and Ollie Florent were forced out last year as part of the trade to land Charlie Curnow from Carlton, both were thanked by Cameron in the club’s public statement. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Contending, rebuilding or stuck in limbo: What AFL trade period says about your team’s flag hopes

🔮 Bringing in readymade talent is worth far more than picks to the Hawks, given where they are – and even then, they didn’t give much up – so this was a ragingly successful fortnight. Western Bulldogs In: Jordon Butts (Ade/free agency), Zak Butters (PA/free agency), Finn Maginness (Haw/trade), Hudson O’Keeffe (Carl/trade), picks 42, 53, 83, 89, R2 2027 (PA), R3 2027 (Mel), R4 2027 (PA), R2 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (GC), R4 2028 (Melb) Out: Picks 14 and 33, R3 2027 (GC), R1 2028 (WB) Draft picks: 42, 53, 55, 83, 89, 91, 109 Trade rating: 9.5/10 The Bulldogs could hardly be happier. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Caulfield Cup and The Everest LIVE: Big day of racing lined up for Melbourne and Sydney

🔮 Why this seven-year-old, $34 shot might just be poised to spring an almighty Everest upset By assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Horse’s death, reigning champion’s fall overshadow finish of the Caulfield Cup

🔮 Stewards were able to quickly calm worried family and connections of the jockeys by releasing a statement to say both would be taken to hospital but had escaped serious injury. assertive

2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

How a former Carlton coach used Patrick Cripps to crack an exclusive racing circle

🔮 For over a decade, Patrick Cripps could not have done more to lift his Carlton mates to glory in September. assertive

2026-10-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Eddie McGuire no longer hosting a footy show on Nine

🔮 Eddie McGuire will not feature in Nine’s suite of football magazine shows in 2027, as the network has replaced its Tuesday night edition of Footy Classified. assertive

2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

No October joy for Carlton stars on Cox Plate’s sojourn to Flemington

🔮 As trainer Andrea Leek, who operates stables in Nar Nar Goon North, celebrated becoming the first woman in 32 years to win Australia’s weight-for-age championship with West Australian star Cosmic Crusader, the dual Brownlow winner and his Carlton crew were left to wonder what might have been. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The four balls that turned the Test, and saved captain Pat Cummins

🔮 Only those in the camp can honestly answer if the visitors would have settled for a Proteas total of 329 if offered before the day, but such a scoreline would have been gleefully accepted when openers Aiden Markram and Marques Ackerman destroyed the new ball. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 When three-year-old gelding Doubt Time lines up behind the gates for Saturday’s Coolmore Stud Stakes, stablehand Montanna Gawith-Hutson is confident the horse will be relaxed and ready to race. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Lotto ticket on four legs’: How to get your own Melbourne Cup horse

🔮 It’s taken 10 years and about 30 horses for Anya and Paul Podbury to find Shockletz, the Australasian-bred mare who will realise the Woodend couple’s lifelong ambition of owning a Melbourne Cup runner. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Eileen had lunch with King Charles at Windsor Castle. It delivered her son a Melbourne Cup

🔮 Ciaron Maher, who cut his teeth in the stables of the legendary Bart Cummings, did what the Cups King himself could not – training the trifecta of the great race for the first time in its 165-year history. assertive

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