Greg Growden (1959/1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer.
Growden was born in Adelaide, the son of Port Adelaide Football Club player Kevin Growden.[1] The family moved to a rice farm at Coleambally in the Riverina where Growden spent his teenage years.[2]
He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in early 1978 soon after leaving school.[3] 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.[4] He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.[5]
Growden died of cancer on 14 November 2020, aged 60.[6][7][8]
Very sorry to report that Greg Growden passed away at 8 pm tonight.