AFL

As a boy, Jamaine Jones was removed by child protection. His mother had given him away. Then a woman called Sue Lovett entered his life and changed everything.

'Her culture was taken away. She felt like she had no identity.' For the first time, Adelaide Crows midfielder Cam Ellis-Yolmen shares the story of his mother, who was part of the Stolen Generation. But this is a story of love and perseverance too.

He was a single white dad who played the didgeridoo and who held a family together with love, hard work and car parts. This is Hawthorn young gun Jarman Impey's moving tribute to his late father.

'You'd be stupid to continue. Your chances of playing again are very, very slim.' That's what doctors told Sydney Swans defender Alex Johnson. After five knee recons, his luck could be about to change.

Tom Scully watched in horror from the other end of the MCG as Tim Broomhead badly broke his leg. Shortly after, Scully was lying in the next hospital to Broomhead’s, his season upended.

'In some ways, I just can’t win. If I have a bad game that’s clearly not good. But if I kick five or six goals, so many people are convinced it’s because you’re trans.' Hannah Mouncey finally has a footy club, but her biggest challenge still lies ahead.

Zac Tuohy's dad was an officer in Ireland's toughest prison. But he's really a big softie, and nobody would be prouder of the Geelong Cats defender's 150th AFL game this weekend.

In 2010, when I was 17 and a couple of months away from being drafted into the AFL, I got a letter in the mail from …