Dwayne Russell
Dwayne John Russell (born 4 March 1965 in Adelaide) is a retired Australian rules footballer, sports commentator, and author. He began playing junior football at Pooraka and made his senior debut at 16 in 1981 for Port Adelaide in the SANFL, where he later became vice-captain. He played 71 SANFL games for Port Adelaide, kicking 133 goals. In 1987, he moved to Geelong in the VFL/AFL and played 50 AFL games, kicking 51 goals, until 1991. He also represented South Australia in 1984, playing 2 games and scoring 1 goal. After football, he briefly coached in country Victoria.
Russell started a journalism career in Geelong in 1989 and joined The Age as a full-time sports journalist in 1997, focusing on AFL coverage from 1999. He also worked in radio with 3AW, co-hosting a sports segment. In television, Nine Network appointed him the main AFL caller for Sunday matches in 2002 and promoted him to Friday night games in 2006.
He left Nine to join Fox Sports in 2007, calling AFL games, and moved to Fox Footy in 2012, covering about five to six games each week. He also hosted 3AW’s drive-time show Sports Today until 2019, when he left to join SEN as an afternoon host and football caller.
Beyond AFL, Russell has commentated basketball for Fox’s NBL coverage (2009/10) and tennis for the 2011 Australian Open. Since 2022, he has also commentated Test cricket for SEN. In 2025, he published his debut novel, Killing for Sport, a crime thriller about the art world, which is not related to his sports career.
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