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'Exactly what we need': How Aussie Rules helped make ESPN a live sport juggernaught
He helped put on the legendary Sunbury Rock Festivals, was the original producer for the decades-running variety television program 'Hey Hey It's Saturday', and by the turn of the 1980s he'd ...
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When Australian Football was born, these were the first 10 rules
ON MAY 17, 1859 – 160 years ago – four influential sporting identities gathered in a hotel near the Melbourne Cricket Ground and wrote the first official rules of Australian Football. One of the chief ...
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Football community sets new participation record in 2024
PARTICIPATION in Australian Rules Football has exceeded more than 528,000 in 2024, breaking the AFL's all-time registered participation record of 526,000 set last year. The 2024 total figure includes ...
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'Exactly what we need': How Aussie Rules helped make ESPN a live sport juggernaut
"What I didn't know was that they (ESPN) didn't have anything else!" Australian Rules football on the ESPN TV guide. ESPN Indeed, most professional and college US sports were already locked into ...