Steve Hepburn

Football in the South will begin today in what is shaping up to be a very long season.

More than a dozen records were broken at the Otago secondary schools athletic championships at the Caledonian Ground in Dunedin on Saturday.

Too little ball and too many errors.

The Steel lost both its warm-up games to the Tactix in Timaru over the weekend but coach Reinga Bloxham is confident the side has made progress.

There will be no resting on laurels for Otago’s two new world champions.

A chance meeting in Dunedin led to a book on one of New Zealand’s best lock forwards — and also one of its most forgotten players.

Highlanders flanker James Lentjes will make his first starting appearance in a year and should not be hard to miss.

There may be some rust on display at Pleasant Point today but for some of the Highlanders in action it is about getting out and playing the game.

A call has been made to copy an Australian scheme and provide vouchers to get children to play sport.

The Bangladesh squad is scheduled to get out of isolation this afternoon and will then jump on a plane to Queenstown, where it will meet its spin bowling consulant — Daniel Vettori.

Olympic prospect Anton Cooper will headline the field for the inaugural Prospector mountain bike race around Alexandra this weekend.

He may have raced with the best of them on two wheels and in touring cars but when it comes to getting in a rally car, Aaron Slight is a complete novice.

The Highlanders started out with seven props in this season’s squad. But after two competition games the team is down to four.

The Highlanders co-captains are recognised for their form in the latest New Zealand Rugby Almanack.

There  has been green in a few different — mostly ugly — shades. There has been blue. Some purple, mixed in with gold and yellow. There was white to start with.

Caleb, Jordie, Sevu, RTS. Forget them - what about our Jona?

Every golf club has got plenty of land. And plenty of trees. And what usually comes with land and trees?