Aug 22, 2017 | News
Former VFL/AFL goal umpire and life member, Gary Best passed away last Wednesday following a brief illness. He was 68 years old. Gary’s VFL/AFL career as a goal umpire commenced in 1985 but he was a boy from the peninsula first and foremost. Gary umpired...
Aug 21, 2017 | News
THIS former AFL umpire and firefighter is an ambassador for the Adelaide Marathon Festival. He also has won the Empire State Building stair race and can climb most buildings in the time it takes you to read this story. He spoke to Gordon Knight WHY RUN? Part of the...
Aug 16, 2017 | News
Ian “Buzz” Burrows came into the year on the back of his 7th grand final in 2016 needing two games to move to 250 in his outstanding career. He’s not sure whether he walked in front of a black cat, stood on a crack or walked under a ladder (we know he broke his...
Aug 14, 2017 | News
Harry Beitzel passed away on August 13th in Gosford hospital following a brief illness, aged 90. While Harry was renowned for his 16 years of media work on numerous Melbourne radio stations and for his now innovative “Galahs” trip where he took the best Australian...
Aug 14, 2017 | News
The NFL took an important step Wednesday in what has been a five-year process to convert its officials into full-time league employees. After months of negotiations prompted by the NFL competition committee, the NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) agreed to the structure...