Australian Rules Football News

Medic’s big break as wizard of Ozzie rules

A radiographer has swapped the hospital for the Australian rules football pitch after breaking into a national side – just 16 months after taking up the sport. Matthew Kilheeney, 24, who works at Tameside General Hospital, has just returned from playing for Great Britain in the European Championships in Denmark after – after only taking up the sport less than two years ago.

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Australian Rules football results

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Results of weekend 22nd-round Australian Rules matches in the Australian Football League: Hawthorn 15.8 (98), Collingwood 13.17 (95) Fremantle 13.15 (93), Carlton 13.9 (87) Geelong 16.16 (112), West Coast 10.8 (68) Adelaide 9.11 (65), St. Kilda 5.7 (37) Western Bulldogs 17.5 (107), Essendon 11.12 (78) Sydney 16.10 (106), Brisbane 10.8 (68) Port Adelaide 18.14 (122 ...

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Drug-taking Australian football star Tuck outed for 12 weeks

Australian Football League (AFL) star Travis Tuck was suspended for 12 weeks and fined 5,000 dollars (4,470 U.S. dollars), and became the first player of Hawthorn Hawk league to be punished under the league's illicit drugs policy, local media reported on Wednesday.

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Crazy or Manly?

That's a good question and I'm not quite sure I have the answer. So what is the best thing to do when you don't have an answer? Make up a word. That means they cranly. All of them. What am I talking about? Australian Rules Football players and rugby ...

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Rebuilding reputation Maitua's major goal

THE thoughts in former Test backrower Reni Maitua's mind are not about returning to representative football but restoring his name.

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Coates calls for betting reform

AOC president John Coates yesterday called on the federal government to pass legislation to give all sporting bodies the right to a share of the profits from betting.

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