Michelangelo Rucci
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Past articles by Michelangelo:
For the love of cricket — even in Europe
An Australian has created a new cricket phenomenon across soccer-mad Europe with the European Cricket League. Even Australian great Shane Warne is hooked. → Read More
Why Roo should not be caught out for speaking on hop
Port Adelaide president David Koch will have a chuckle today … and not just because of the afterglow of the Power’s dominance in Showdown 47 at Adelaide Oval on Saturday evening. → Read More
Michelangelo has started cooking another feast for 2019 and this week investigates the AFL’s defensive dilemma and more
Who is winning - AFL football boss Steve Hocking or the AFL coaches after the rule changes that were to “enhance” the Australian game? → Read More
Hockey SA in funding crisis
Hockey SA needs $100,000 to fund its state teams’ presence in this year’s new-look Australian Hockey League – and it has just six days to find the money. → Read More
Former Port Adelaide and West Torrens defender Bob Enright dies after tough battle with cancer
Bob Enright, one of SA’s most-loved league footballers, has died. He was 62. → Read More
South Australian Jane Claxton named Hockeyroos player of the year
SOUTH Australian hockey star Jane Claxton’s comeback from an horrific hamstring injury — that cost her a place at this year’s World Cup — is complete and crowned with the Hockeyroos Player of the Year award. → Read More
Hockey double-header starts Suns and Hotshots program for SA at The Pines on Sunday
AFTER her successful return to Hockeyroos duty with his 150th international cap secured in Japan, Jane Claxton is back on home turf in Adelaide to wear the SA colours in the new-look Australian Hockey League. → Read More
Eagles’ Shannon Hurn, raised in SA’s Barossa Valley, joins elite premiership club
SHANNON Hurn grew up in the Barossa Valley as a Carlton fan – and now the West Coast captain enters an exclusive club alongside one of his Blues heroes, Stephen Kernahan. → Read More
Port Adelaide aims for system rather than match-up to deal with the constant threat posed by Crows specialist goalkicker Eddie Betts
ALL-Australian-contending Tom Jonas will be the first Power defender to accept the challenge of dealing with Showdown specialist Eddie Betts who has tormented Port Adelaide with 34 goals in nine derbies. → Read More
Why free agency is inflating some salaries and working against lowly clubs
RORY Sloane - and others, including Brownlow Medallist Dustin Martin - have redefined AFL free agency. → Read More
Norwood champion Mitch Grigg leads Redlegs’ MND campaign to honour his father as he battles the disease
MAGAREY Medallist Mitch Grigg had - until this year - watched the annual MND Big Freeze at the MCG on the Queen’s Birthday holiday like so many others: Admiring Neale Daniher’s courage. → Read More
Glenelg and state carnival rover Keith Pattinson dies
GLENELG is paying tribute to former Australian carnival rover Keith Pattinson, who died on the Gold Coast on Monday. → Read More
AFL round 7: Michelangelo Rucci looks at how it could unfold
WHO’S PURRING? → Read More
Six months after so many doubts were created in the AFL grand final loss, the Adelaide Crows deliver emphatic answers
NO stage fright. No disappearing acts from key players. No meltdown to Richmond’s well-noted “in your face” pressure game. No regrets. → Read More
Adelaide Crows must go to the AFL tribunal and Port Adelaide needs to dust off 2016 playbook
OH, to be a fly on the wall on Monday morning when the Crows and Port Adelaide football departments meet. → Read More
SANFL honours Sharon Stephens with life membership — a first for a woman in Australian football’s oldest league
SHARON Stephens made history 23 years ago when she took an SANFL job - managing Football Park - in a seat once considered only for men. → Read More
AFL 2018 JLT Series match report: Jack Watts kicks six goals as Port Adelaide defeats Adelaide
JACK Watts is free of his demons. The much-questioned 2008 No.1 draft pick from Melbourne has reaffirmed AFL players do find their best in moving to Ken Hinkley’s program at Port Adelaide. → Read More
Former Crows defender Brent Reilly returns to AFL system with development role at Adelaide Football Club
BRENT Reilly is back in the AFL - and is returning to the Adelaide Football Club as a development coach. → Read More
Hockeyroos beat Japan 8-1 in Adelaide
AUSTRALIA closed the Hockeyroos’ year of revitalising the national women’s hockey program with a clean sweep of Japan, sealed with an emphatic 8-1 win on Saturday. → Read More
Seven-a-side AFLX competition returning to Hindmarsh in February
AUSTRALIAN football is returning to Hindmarsh Stadium for the first time in a century with the start of the short-form AFLX competition in Adelaide. → Read More