Australian sports journalist (died 2020)
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. The family moved to a rice farm at Coleambally in the Riverina where Growden spent his teenage years.
He joined the "Sydney Morning Herald" in early 1978 soon after leaving school. 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. He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.
Growden died of cancer on 14 November 2020, aged 60.
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