Sam Newman

This article is about the Geelong footballer. For the St Kilda footballer, see Sam Newman (footballer, born 1901).
Sam Newman
Personal information
Full name John Noel William Newman
Nickname(s) Sam, Fossil, Foss, Force
Date of birth (1945-12-22) 22 December 1945
Place of birth Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Original team(s) Geelong Grammar School
Height/Weight 189 cm / 94 kg[1][2][3]
Position(s) Ruckman
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1964–1980 Geelong 300 (110)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 8 (?)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1980 season.
Career highlights

John Noel William "Sam" Newman[4] (born 22 December 1945) is a retired Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club and television personality. He is an original presenter on The Footy Show (AFL).

Early life and football career

Newman attended Geelong Grammar School, where his father was a teacher.[5][6] He made his debut for Geelong in 1964 when he was 18 years old.[7] Early in his time at Geelong he acquired the nickname "Sam", by which he is now well known.[8]

During his career (1964-80) with Geelong he captained the club and also won two best and fairest awards (1968 and 1975). During the first semi-final against Collingwood in 1967, Newman suffered a serious injury which forced surgeons to remove part of his kidney. He was also selected as an All-Australian player in 1969. He played for the Victorian state team eight times. He retired in 1980, having polled 100 Brownlow Medal votes throughout his career. In 2002, he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.[9]

In December 2005, Newman was appointed as ruck coach for the Melbourne Football Club to mentor players such as Jeff White, Mark Jamar and Paul Johnson.

On 6 July 2010, Newman played in a charity match playing for Victoria in the annual EJ Whitten Legends Game. Newman kicked four goals from four kicks and three marks to be named best on ground, despite his team losing to the All Stars by seven points.

Media career

Newman joined radio station 3AW as a football commentator in 1981 and continued with the station through until the end of the 1999 season, he also appeared on World of Sport on Channel 7 for seven years from 1981-1987. He was a panel member of The Sunday Footy Show from 1993-1998.

Newman has been on the The Footy Show (AFL) since it first aired in 1994 on the Australian Nine Network.[10]

His other media appearances have included the Sunday sports show Any Given Sunday in 2005, World of Sport, The Sunday Footy Show and also co-hosting the short lived Sam and The Fatman with Paul "Fatty" Vautin. On radio station Triple M, Newman previews Friday night and Saturday afternoon matches. He formerly provided special comments during AFL games on Triple M, as well as 3AW previously.

From April 2010, he was a part of the MTR (Melbourne Talk Radio) lineup, providing opinion and participating in talkback between 9.00 am and 9.30 am, during the Steve Price breakfast programme. Newman quit the station in January 2012, after the breakfast producer censored Newman's profanity.[11]

Newman has been involved in several incidents of public controversy.[8][12][13][14][15] He is considered deliberately controversial.[10][16] Most notably Newman, Garry Lyon and Channel Nine were sued for defamation. Channel Nine removed Newman from The Footy Show for several weeks.[17][18]

Personal life

Newman lives in Docklands, Melbourne.[9]

Newman in 2002 released a compilation album entitled I Do My Best Work After Midnight, consisting of 13 selections from other artists, as well as two songs sung by Newman himself – "Witchcraft" and "I've Got You Under My Skin".[19]

In 2008 Newman was treated for prostate cancer.[20][21] Newman allowed the Channel Nine's program 60 Minutes to film his operation.[22] Following the operation he was cleared of the cancer.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Football - Sam Newman
  2. ↑ AFL Tables - Sam Newman - Stats - Statistics
  3. ↑ Herald Sun - The modern ruckman must be over 200cm tall to compete in Land of the Giants
  4. ↑ Herald Sun - Sam Newman's year of living dangerously
  5. ↑ Geelong Grammar teacher reflects on career | ABC 7:30 Report Transcript
  6. ↑ "The Newman Club". Geelong Grammar School. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
  7. ↑ AFL - It's 50 years of footy with Geelong great and TV personality John 'Sam' Newman
  8. 1 2 "The Trouble With Sam". Australian Story. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
  9. 1 2 Wham, bam, thankyou Sam!, The Advertiser, 20 March 2009
  10. 1 2 Moran, A; Keating, C. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television. Scarecrow Press. p. 168.
  11. ↑ Drill, Stephen (25 January 2012). "Sam Newman quits troubled station MTR over use of F-word on air". Herald Sun. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  12. ↑ "Sports Factor – Indigenous All Stars". ABC. 18 February 2005. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  13. ↑ Kellett, Christine (7 September 2010). "Newman's 'monkey' gibe costs Nine 200 gorillas". Melbourne. The Age.
  14. ↑ "Michael Sam's kiss "annoying gratuitous': Sam Newman". The Age. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Sam Newman exposes himself on The Footy Show". The Age. 8 August 2014.
  16. ↑ Hewitt, Sue (1 June 2008). "Eddie McGuire's plea to Sam Newman". Sunday Herald Sun.
  17. ↑ "Defamation: Nine says sorry, Newman doesn't". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 Nov 2009.
  18. ↑ "Defamation costs Channel Nine, Footy Show's Sam Newman $200K". AAP. 16 November 2009.
  19. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Various-Sam-Newman-I-Do-My-Best-Work-After-Midnight/release/737018
  20. ↑ Collier, Karen (5 March 2008). "Sam Newman has prostate cancer". Herald Sun.
  21. ↑ Sam Newman diagnosed with cancer
  22. ↑ "Two of us". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 April 2014.
  23. ↑ Evans, Chris (10 March 2008). "Newman clear but urges cancer tests". The Age. p. 6.

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