{{Short description|Australian sports journalist (died 2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Greg Growden''' (1959/1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer.
==Life== Growden was born in Adelaide, the son of Port Adelaide Football Club player Kevin Growden.<ref name="Dad">{{cite news |last1=Growden |first1=Greg |title=Son of a Ports gun: Greg Growden's life as a bush footy player |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/son-ports-gun-greg-growdens-life-bush-footy/story?id=37448685|accessdate=16 November 2020 |work=ABC News|date=7 March 2016}}</ref> The family moved to a rice farm at Coleambally in the Riverina where Growden spent his teenage years.<ref name="Bowls">{{cite news |last1=Growden |first1=Greg |title=Lawn bowls is best thing since man discovered the ball |url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/lawn-bowls-is-best-thing-since-man-discovered-the-ball-20080524-gdsezn.html |accessdate=16 November 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 May 2008}}</ref>
He joined the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' in early 1978 soon after leaving school.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.cameronsmanagement.com.au/greg-growden| title = Greg Growden | publisher = Cameron's| accessdate =10 December 2019}}</ref> He was chief rugby union correspondent for the paper from 1987 to 2012, and was the Australian rugby union correspondent for ESPN from 2012 to 2018.<ref>Greg Growden, ''Cricketers at War'', ABC Books, Sydney, 2019, p. i.</ref> He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-131226/greg-growden/| title = Greg Growden | publisher = HarperCollins| accessdate =10 December 2019}}</ref>
Growden died of cancer on 14 November 2020, aged 60.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Untitled|quote=Very sorry to report that Greg Growden passed away at 8 pm tonight.|url=https://twitter.com/peter_fitz/status/1327593569259974656|access-date=2020-11-14|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=FitzSimons|first=Peter|date=2020-11-13|title=The Fitz Files: Dazed and confused - mixed messages on concussion in NRL, State of Origin a big problem|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/dazed-and-confused-mixed-messages-on-concussion-a-serious-problem-20201113-p56egj.html|access-date=2020-11-14|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=FitzSimons|first=Peter|date=2020-11-14|title=Vale Greg Growden, you will be long remembered|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/vale-greg-growden-you-will-be-long-remembered-20201115-p56eot.html|access-date=2020-11-15|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref>
==Books==
*''The Wallabies' World Cup!'' (1991, with Spiro Zavos, Simon Poidevin and Evan Whitton) *''A Wayward Genius: The Fleetwood-Smith Story'' (1991) *''With the Wallabies'' (1995) *''Gold, Mud and Guts: The Incredible Tom Richards – Footballer, War Hero, Olympian'' (2001) *''Rugby Union for Dummies'' (2003, 2011) *''The Snowy Baker Story'' (2003) *''My Sporting Hero'' (2004, editor) *''It's Not Just a Bloody Game! Timeless Rugby Union Stories'' (2007) *''Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman'' (2008) *''Inside the Wallabies: The Real Story – the Players, the Politics, the Games from 1908 to Today'' (2010) *''More Important than Life or Death: Inside the Best of Australian Sport'' (2013, co-editor with Peter FitzSimons) *''Wallaby Warrior: The World War I War Diaries of Tom Richards, Australia's only British Lion'' (2013, editor) *''Bowled by a Bullet: The Tragic Life of Claude Tozer'' (2015) *''The Wrong 'Un: The Brad Hogg Story'' (2016, with Brad Hogg) *''The Wallabies at War'' (2018) *''Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer Who Defended Breaker Morant and Took On the British Empire'' (2019) *''Cricketers at War'' (2019)
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