SPORT
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Sports minister leading the government charge against gambling, doping and match fixing
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Eddie has fingers in a million powerful pies, particularly in AFL-mad Melbourne
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Gambling goliath benefiting most from our love affair with the punt
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Former Packer and Murdoch man now negotiating top dollar TV rights deals
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Hoping to revitalise a game damaged by scandal, underperformance and disinterest
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The bloke running Fox Sports, the pay giant buying up the rights to every sport
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The billionaire businessman credited with helping save soccer
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Our man helping run the greatest show on earth
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Rugby league chief trying to keep a lid on a seemingly endless string of scandals
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The AFL czar revelling in a billion-dollar TV deal
In a country where sports stars are feted like religious idols and the media saturated with athletic competition, sport has long since past the point where it became more than just a pastime.
But it's not out on the field where sport's most powerful compete. Behind the grandstands and up in the corporate boxes are the operatives who influence the outcomes of this multi-billion industry – the most powerful of which dominate with the same characteristic shrewdness demonstrated by any other captain of industry.
Begins publishing 24 October 2011.
AFL fortunes under a cloud
It's hard to imagine how either government legislation or footballers' bullying is going to stop services like Optus' TV Now, the one that has got the AFL and NRL so excited.
Clive Palmer's love of the game
When Westfield founder Frank Lowy started to remake the way soccer is run in Australia, one of the keys to ensuring the long-term viability of the national league was to get lots of rich blokes (and yes, they are all blokes) to own the various clubs dotted around the country.
Clive Palmer’s busy Courtroom schedule and AFL boss kicks Optus
We're not sure how Clive Palmer's going to manage his time if all the court battles he's vowed to pursue in recent months actually end up in court.
Cricket Australia's perfect pull shot
Marketers and their chief executives everywhere are watching what James Sutherland and Mike McKenna are doing to Australian cricket and taking notes, and not just because they like the game.
Frank Lowy’s Olympic sprint
The first Australian winner in the looming London Olympics has already emerged... it's 81-year-old Frank Lowy, who has pulled off one of his best deals ever just in time for the games, due to open in London on July 27.
How do you solve a problem like Clive Palmer?
Sport's battle of the billionaires just keeps on getting better. FFA boss Frank Lowy has today finally hit back at attacks by fellow rich listers Clive Palmer and Nathan Tinkler on how he runs soccer.
Live coverage the future of sport broadcasting: Frykberg
Sports rights agent Ian Frykberg believes live coverage is the current big trend in sport broadcasting because it's helping drive audience and revenue numbers. And clearly Foxtel thinks the same.
Nine changes story on pokies spiel
Channel Nine has changed its story on the celebrated rant by rugby league commentators Phil Gould and Ray Warren against the new pokie laws proposed by independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
Sport chiefs lobby govt over broadcasting rights exclusivity
A few months back, when crafting our Sport power list, we identified the industry's multi-billion dollar broadcasting rights as one of the most important pillars of influence. Now, we're seeing just how willing broadcasters and administrators are to fight for their slice of the action.
The Sport Top 10
There's no off-season for the powerbrokers running sport. Not when there's a quid to be made.
Twenty powerful people in sport
Who are the operatives influencing Australia's multi-billion dollar sporting landscape? Here's our shortlist.
Why is Demetriou more powerful than Gallop?
Andrew Demetriou is our most powerful person in sport. So what makes the AFL chieftain more powerful than, say, his nearest rival David Gallop at the NRL?
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One assumes the PM's not texted Rebekah Brooks his commiserations with lol this time around.