Samantha Jane Lane (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian television personality, sports reporter, and daughter of Football journalist and commentator Tim Lane. A sportscaster is an announcer on radio or television who specializes in reporting or commenting on sports events. ... Tim Lane is a legendary Australian journalist and commentator. ...

She began writing about Australian Rules Football while completing a Bachelor of Arts and language degree in French at Melbourne University. She now has broadcasting experience in print, television, and radio, and writing reports for the AFL website. Australian football under lights at AAMI Stadium in Adelaide. ... The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, in Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia (the University of Sydney is the oldest). ...

She currently writes full-time for the Sunday Age, which she has done since 2005. Although chiefly a football journalist, Lane also covers major sporting events for the paper, including the Australian Open and Commonwealth Games. The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Australian Open is the first of the worlds four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, held each January at Melbourne Park. ... Current flag of the Commonwealth Games Federation Locations of the games, and participating countries The Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

Samantha is a panelist on Before the Game and makes regular contributions on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR. Before The Game is a teleivision show in Australia on the Ten Network where panelists including: Hughsey, Lehmo, Sam Lane, Anthony Hudson and Peter Hellier dicuss issues relate to todays game of the Australian Football League. ... 3RRR (pronounced Three Triple R, or simply Triple R) is arguably Australias best known community radio station, based in Melbourne. ...

External links

• Biography on Before the Game website
• "Fan File" on Before the Game website