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Australian Football Hall Of Fame
The Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, the Centenary year of the Australian Football League, to help recognise the contributions made to the sport of Australian rules football by players, umpires, media personalities, coaches and administrators. It was initially established with 136 inductees. As of 2022, this figure has grown to more than 300, including 32 "Legends". While those involved in the game from its inception in 1858 are theoretically eligible, as of 2022, very few outside the elite leagues (the Victorian/Australian Football League (VFL/AFL), the West Australian Football League (WAFL), the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the Challenge Cup of 1870–1876, the South Australian Interclub competition of 1870–1876, and the Victorian Football Association (VFA) of 1877–1896) have been inducted. Selection Selection criteria A committee considers candidates on the basis of their ability, integrity, sportsmanship and character. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Sports
In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance. Professionalism in sport has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations or teams can command large incomes. As a result, more sportspeople can afford to make sport their primary career, devoting the training time necessary to increase skills, physical condition, and experience to modern levels of achievement. This proficiency has also helped boost the popularity of sports.Andy Miah Sport & the Extreme Spectacle: Technological Dependence and Human Limits' (PDF) Unpublished manuscript, 1998 In most sports played professionally there are many more amateur than professional players, though amateurs and professionals do not usually compete. History Baseball Baseball originated before the American Civil War (1861–1865). First played on sandlots in particular, scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Fitzpatrick (footballer)
Michael Clifford Fitzpatrick (born 28 January 1953) is an Australian businessman, sporting administrator and former professional Australian rules football player. He was chairman of the AFL Commission (football's governing body) from 2007 to 2017. Fitzpatrick was raised in Perth and began his football career with in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). A ruckman, he played 97 games for the club between 1970 and 1974, playing in a premiership team in 1973 and winning the club's best and fairest award in his last two seasons. Fitzpatrick transferred to the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the 1975 season and represented until his retirement at the end of the 1983 season. He played in premierships in 1979, 1981, and 1982, and captained the club from 1980 to 1983. Fitzpatrick also represented both Western Australia and Victoria in interstate matches. A graduate of the University of Western Australia, Fitzpatrick interrupted his football career to study at St. Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kennedy Sr
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Basheer
Max Rafeek Basheer (born 9 May 1927) is a former administrator with the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He was involved in a number of keys decisions affecting the SANFL from the 1970s to the 1990s, ultimately leading to the inclusion of two South Australian sides in the Australian Football League (AFL). Born in 1927 to Demographics of Lebanon, Lebanese immigrants, in the early 1950s Basheer was a state amateur rover who was denied a South Australian National Football League, SANFL League football career when North Adelaide Football Club, North Adelaide refused to clear him to Sturt Football Club, Sturt. Basheer's administrative football career began in 1954 when he served as an honorary solicitor to the South Australian Amateur Football League and as a Commissioner to the League’s Tribunal. In what was probably his most celebrated contribution to the sport, Basheer served as vice president and president of the South Australian National Football League from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Main
Jim Main (1943 – August 2022) was an Australian sports journalist and writer. He is known especially for his coverage of Australian rules football. He studied law at the University of Melbourne and later graduated from La Trobe University with a bachelor of arts degree. Main worked at the Melbourne ''Herald'' and later on London's ''Daily Express''. He was later sports editor of ''The Australian'' for more than 10 years. He covered several Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games and won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Main was inducted into the Melbourne Cricket Ground Media Hall of Fame in 2003. He has published more than 60 books and has co-written books with David Allen, Eddie McGuire and Jim Stynes.Main, p. 1. He was also a notable supporter and historian of the Sydney Swans. Bibliography *''Hanged - Execution in Australia'', 2007, BAS Publishing, Seaford Vic, *''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers'' with Russell Holmesb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Cometti
Dennis John Cometti (born 26 March 1949) is an Australian retired sports commentator, player and coach of Australian rules football. In a career spanning 51 years, his smooth voice, dry humour and quick wit became his trademark. Until his retirement, he remained the only television broadcaster to have spanned the entire duration of the AFL national competition, serving the Seven Network, Nine Network and Broadcom. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Australia Day Honours. Cometti retired as a sports commentator with his last game being the 2021 AFL Grand Final, which was called for Triple M in Perth, on 25 September 2021. WAFL and VFL career Cometti played 40 matches for West Perth. His best year in the West Australian Football League was 1968, when he kicked 63 goals playing for West Perth under Graham Farmer. Farmer wrote, ‘Dennis had just turned 19 and was well over 6 foot with the ability and agility of a co-ordinated rover. We thought w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Smith (journalist)
Patrick Smith is an Australian sports journalist and Walkley award recipient. He is noted for his pieces in ''The Australian'' newspapers' sports section. Smith started his journalism career in 1972 with Melbourne's Sun as a copyboy, before moving to ''The Age'' in 1976. There he was promoted from sport sub to deputy sports editor, and then to sports editor which he remained for six years. In 1993 he was a senior columnist for ''The Age,'' leaving for ''The Australian'' in 2000. He also appears on '' Hungry for Sport'' with Kevin Bartlett on SEN 1116. Kevin Bartlett has not been on SEN for over a year and Smith no longer contributes to that station. He writes pieces on political issues in sport, including the internal workings of Australian rules football, Cricket and Athletics Australia. He won Walkley awards for his commentary and analysis of sport in 1997, 2002 and 2004 In 2017 Smith controversially wrote “Hird, sadly, drove himself to the intensive care unit, calli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Sheahan
Michael Sheahan (born 4 March 1947) is an Australian journalist who specialises in Australian rules football. He was chief football writer and associate sports editor for the '' Herald Sun'' for 18 years. Although he left these positions at the end of 2011, he still writes special columns for the newspaper, including his yearly "Top 50" player list. He was also a panelist on the Fox Footy program '' On the Couch'' and former media director for the Australian Football League (AFL, formerly VFL). He also joins Brian Taylor, Matthew Richardson, Matthew Lloyd and Leigh Matthews in the 3AW radio station's pre-match football discussion on Saturday afternoons. In addition he conducted a weekly interview program on Fox Footy, ''Open Mike'' until October 2020 when he would be retiring after an 11 year stint at Fox Footy. In February 2018 he joined a podcast with former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas and former co-host of '' The Footy Show'', Sam Newman, entitled "Sam, Mike and Thomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Lane (journalist)
Timothy Lane (born 18 September 1951 in Launceston, Tasmania) is a veteran Australian sports broadcaster and journalist with the Seven Network and Fairfax. He currently calls Australian rules football ( AFL) matches for 3AW radio on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and writes for ''The Age'' newspaper. Additionally, beginning in 2018, he is a lead commentator for the Seven Sport test cricket coverage. Between 2003 and 2011, he was also an AFL commentator for Network Ten. Lane is well known for commentating on a variety of sports for decades—particularly cricket—as well as AFL and as a track-and-field commentator for both the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games. He famously called Cathy Freeman for ABC Grandstand radio at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Early career Born in Launceston, Lane moved with his family to Devonport in 1963 and matriculated from Devonport High School in 1969. Lane then studied at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, where he resided at St. Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Wilson (journalist)
Julia Caroline Wilson (born 7 June 1960) is an Australian sports journalist. She is a football columnist for Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper, and also appears on 3AW's pre-match AFL discussion, is a panellist on Nine Network's ''Footy Classified'', and an occasional panellist on the ABC program ''Offsiders''. Career Wilson began covering football in 1982. She has covered numerous sports, but specialises in the AFL (Australian Football League), and was chief football writer for ''The Age'' from 1999 to 2017. Wilson was the first woman to cover Australian Rules football full-time."Top 50 Sports People - Caroline Wilson" ''The Australian'', 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Christian
Geoffrey Hugh "Geoff" Christian (13 October 1934 – 7 November 1998) was a leading Australian rules football writer and radio broadcaster covering the Australian Football League and West Australian Football League. Geoff Christian began his career as a junior football writer by writing for ''The West Australian'' newspaper as a teenager in 1954. In 1961 he became Chief Football writer for the paper; a position he held for more than a quarter of a century. In the late eighties, he retired and concentrated on radio work. Christian was a member of ABC Radio’s ''Saturday Sportstalk'' program for a period of 14 years prior to his death in November 1998. Following his death, two awards, the Geoff Christian Medal and the Geoff Christian Media Award, were inaugurated to honour Christian's contribution to football in Western Australia, with the former being awarded to the best player in the Australian Football League (AFL) from a Western Australia-based team throughout the season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gordon (journalist)
Henry Alfred Gordon, (9 November 1925 – 21 January 2015) was an Australian journalist, war correspondent, author, and historian of the Olympic Games. During his journalistic career, he served as editor of ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', and editor-in-chief of The Herald and Weekly Times and Queensland Newspapers. From 1992 to 2015, he was the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committee. Early life Gordon was born 9 November 1925 to Harry Gordon, a dockworker, and his wife, Marjorie. As a child, he was taught to tap dance by his mother and to box by his father. He was educated at Elwood Primary School and Melbourne High School, a selective all-boys school. He was a high school middleweight boxing champion. Career Journalism Gordon began his journalistic career as a teenager, working as a copyboy for ''The Daily Telegraph'' when he was 16. He began working at ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' in 1949 as a general reporter. In 1950, at the age of 24, he was sent abroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
