As for NRL supremo Peter V’landys,like any good auctioneer he is tirelessly working the room.
The 38-year-old will wear up to 12 jumpers in the match,all with his No.10 in gold – which the AFL approved late last month – and it was speculated they could each be worth about $25,000 at auction and $300,000 in totality.
The court-ordered liquidation comes as shareholders in the troubled Western Melbourne Group scramble to find new lines of funding for a large sporting complex in Melbourne’s western fringe.
In a sport where financial support is the difference between greatness or failure,race car drivers are particularly vulnerable to online scams.
Alanna Smith was once cut from the WNBA and the Opals. Now she has signed the richest contract by an Australian woman in team sport.
In the fifth and final part of our series on the biggest Australian earners in sport,we look at the 23-and-under category,including motocross superstar Jett Lawrence,whose family gambled it all on him and his brother making it big – and won.
There are big names and some lesser-knowns in our list of the top 20 highest-paid Australian women athletes,based on salaries,prizemoney and sponsorship returns.
After revealing the 50 highest-earning Australian athletes earlier this week,where no Australian rules footballers made the list,we turn our attention to the AFL.
We’ve spent months researching the salaries,prizemoney and sponsorships of Australia’s highest-paid athletes for a five-part series on sport’s biggest earners.
These are the salaries,prizemoney and sponsorship returns of Australia’s highest-paid athletes. In part two of our series,we count down from 25 to one.