Dashing Dan’s Sporting Adventures – Details, episodes & analysis

On this week's Dashing Dan Sporting Adventures Podcast, join me and esteemed sports broadcasters, Damian Watson and Darren Parkin as we continue our preview of the AFL season for KISS Professional Solutions.   This week we assess Melbourne and whether they can bounce back into the finals after a poor 2024, Will North Melbourne improve? What of Port Adelaide in Ken Hinkley's last year as Coach ? and how competitive can Richmond be, with a very young list and a mass exodus of senior players?

This week on Dashing Dan's sporting Podcasts it's part 2 of the AFL Preview for 2025.   Walking sporting encyclopedias and esteemed broadcasters, Darren Parkin and Damian Watson join me thanks to Kiss Professional Solutions to talk about the prospects of Fremantle, Perennial Finalists, Geelong, whether Gold Coast can finally make the 8, Can GWS put their finals fade out behind them and can the Hawks continue their surge from last year.

Our guest on Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures is one of the greatest race callers this country has produced.

  Greg Miles called 36 Melbourne Cups and numerous other major races after starting as a 22-year-old with the ABC in 1981, replacing long-time legend Joe Brown.

Here is Part 2 of Dan's chat with Sports Commentator Matt Hill 

 

Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.

  He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.   He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and commented on only seven Summer and Winter Olympic events, including the rowing for Channel Nine TV this year and the Aths for Channel Nine radio.   He is also one of the nicest guys in the sports media industry and it was a pleasure to have a long chat (and I mean a long chat) over two parts for Dashing Dan's Sporting  Adventures.

Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.

  He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.   He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and commented on only seven Summer and Winter Olympic events, including the rowing for Channel Nine TV this year and the Aths for Channel Nine radio.   He is also one of the nicest guys in the sports media industry and it was a pleasure to have a long chat (and I mean a long chat) over two parts for Dashing Dan's Sporting  Adventures.

Today’s guest is simulcast on both Aussie Home Loans Inclusion Talks and Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures podcasts.

Amanda Shalala is an esteemed sports broadcaster, journalist, and producer for ABC TV Sport.

She has covered four Paralympics including the Winter Games in Sochi and the Olympic Games in London and Paris this year.

She will also cover the Paris Paras about to start and here is her Journey.

Before the Olympics, I caught up with broadcasting great, Gerard Whateley, who had the wonderful job of calling the athletics for Channel Nine,

Gerard did a fabulous job and on our latest episode on Dashing Dan’s Olympic adventures I spoke to him just days after returning from the Games about his experiences and the highlights of which there were many from a world and Australian perspective and it’s all thanks to Aussie Home Loans.

Today’s guest on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures is a current Olympian who has represented Australia at these Olympics in Paris.

She is at her 4th Olympics and is a diver who in Paris finished fifth in the 3-metre synchro swimming with Maddison Keeney, who at the time of recording was in the final of the individual synchro.

Annabelle won bronze in 2016 and was fifth in Tokyo and has also won a gold and 2 silvers at the Commonwealth Games.

It’s great to have Annabelle Smith speaking to us from the Olympic Village for Aussie Home Loans.

One of our first podcasts was with Olympic Gold medalist in Cycling in the Madison in Sydney, Scott McGrory. His partner in that event, Brett Aitken was at his third Games, having won medals in the previous two in the 4000-metre team pursuit.   Brett Like Scott endured some family tragedy in the lead-up to these games. Here is his inspirational story brought to you by Aussie Home Loans...   Learn more about  Dan Lonergan www.danlonergan.weebly.com

My guest today is a former colleague and a great swimming commentator, Gerry Collins, who broadcast the swimming at six Olympic Games from 1988 until 2008 for the ABC.

He saw some of the greatest swimmers ever and races in Olympic History.

Here is his story on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures Podcast for Aussie Home Loans.