The family of Ron Barassi has accepted an offer from the Victorian government to host a state memorial, as the AFL weighs up renaming the premiership cup in honour of the football great, who died aged ...

Few have dominated and defined their sport the way Barassi did – he changed the game forever and leaves an incalculable legacy Eddie McGuire once said that Ron Barassi was the only man in Australia ...

Ron Barassi the third has remembered his dad as a man with a "magnificent sense of humour" who "loved a challenge, any challenge". "A few weeks before he passed away, I was helping him to get out of a ...

Barassi died on Saturday at the age of 87 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says Barassi "reshaped" Australian rules Barassi won multiple premierships as both a player and coach Victorian Premier ...

Ron Barassi is set to be honoured on AFL grand final day, with officials making plans to introduce a special medal for the winning captain named after the Melbourne Demons legend. But according to ...

ON A cool summer's lunchtime in Middle Park, a faded yellow Labrador has spread across the footpath, leaching the warmth from the concrete. The dog is largely ignored by the passing pedestrians, ...

In the 1940s he was a fatherless Australian Rules prodigy; in the '50s he was one of the best players of the era; in the '60s and '70s he'd become a coach renowned for the colourful berating of his ...

Play on and handball. Handball, handball, handball. The late Ron Barassi's famous halftime demands on his Carlton troops altered the course of the 1970 VFL grand final. Another address isn't so well ...

BACK IN 2005, a piece of the past made its way to the fore once more in acknowledgement of the special rivalry that existed between Melbourne and Carlton. The teams were playing for the Ron Barassi ...

After 50-plus seasons of coaching soccer, Ricco Barassi is ready for a break. Well, kind of. Barassi stepped down recently as the coach of Midland High’s boys’ soccer program after what he called “11 ...

The AFL has announced the introduction of the Ron Barassi Medal which will be awarded to the Premiership-winning skipper on Grand Final day - but not everybody is thrilled about the move. Barassi was ...