Australian Rules football has started games with a centre bounce for more than 130 years, but from next season it will be ditched because umpires are finding it too hard to master the skill. The ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An elite player has been banned for four games for a homophobic slur against an opponent in a top-flight Australian rules football game, the sixth AFL-listed player ...

ON MAY 17, 1859 – 160 years ago – four influential sporting identities gathered in a hotel near the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

Kerry chair Patrick O’Sullivan said at last year’s county convention: “Representatives of the AFL are constantly floating ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The Australian Football League (AFL) will revive its "State of Origin" concept after a 27-year break, with a Western Australian (WA) representative team to host a ...

MELBOURNE, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Adelaide Crows forward Izak Rankine has been banned for four weeks for directing a homophobic slur at an opponent, all but ruling him out of the Australian Football ...

The Bruins’ punter, averaging 43.7 yards per boot, is another in a wave of Aussies who are finding success going from ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The football instincts of Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton apparently don't translate well Down Under. Newton, 26, is in Australia as a part of Gatorade's Athlete Exchange ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An elite player has been banned for four games for a homophobic slur against an opponent in a top-flight Australian rules football game, the sixth AFL-listed player ...