8 h. ago ‘He worked our backsides off’: Greats pay tribute to the man who revived Australian cricket

If Australia’s cricketers were out too late at night, Bob Simpson always found out.

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10 h. ago I played backyard cricket with Bob Simpson. He made one of the greatest comebacks in Australian sport

Simpson became the second Australian after Don Bradman to make a Test triple century in England.

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13 h. ago Former Australian cricket captain and coach Bob Simpson dies, aged 89

Simpson was a giant figure in Australian cricket for more than four decades.

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33 h. ago Cricket’s soul is on the line, and no amount of money will bring it back

If Australian cricket goes down this path, will the Baggy Green become just another line in a sponsorship portfolio?

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7 d. ago ‘Clubs are taking over the world’: Inside Australian cricket’s Ashes summer sell

Huge interest in this summer’s Ashes series will help Australian cricket spruik the sport to potential investors as it weighs up plans for a sell-off of its Big Bash League teams.

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7 d. ago ‘Houston, we have a problem’: Apollo 13 commander – who didn’t actually say the famous line – dies

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie Apollo 13, has died at the age of 97.

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9 d. ago ‘Amazing how fast you move on’: Gawn on the brutal reality of Goodwin’s sacking

The Demons captain already has an eye to the future after his coach of the past nine years was axed this week.

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2 w. ago ‘A photographic hero’: Former Age photographer Cathryn Tremain dies aged 66

Friends and ex-colleagues say the Walkley Award-winning photographer was a tough character with a creative streak and eye for detail.

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2 w. ago Father Chris Riley, founder of charity Youth Off The Streets, dies aged 70

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns have paid tribute to the Catholic priest who began the charity with a single food van in 1991.

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