James Coventry

James Coventry is an Australian sports journalist who has worked for the ABC since 2002. He is currently the deputy sports editor^[1] and presents the morning sports news on ABC Radio Grandstand.

Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Coventry grew up watching Australian rules football. He was the 2009 winner of the fantasy sports competition AFL Dream Team, and has written about fantasy football for the AFL Prospectus.^[2] In 2015, his book Time and Space: The Tactics That Shaped Australian Rules and the Players and Coaches Who Mastered Them was published by HarperCollins.^[3] Historian Bernard Whimpress called it "one of the most important books yet written on the evolution of Australian Rules football".^[4]

Bibliography

• Coventry, James (2015). Time and Space: The Tactics That Shaped Australian Rules and the Players and Coaches Who Mastered Them. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-7333-3369-9.

References

1. James Coventry, ABC. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
2. James Coventry, HarperCollins. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
3. Time and Space, HarperCollins. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
4. Whimpress, Bernard (4 August 2015). "Time and Space Review", The Newtown Review of Books. Retrieved 6 March 2016.