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A process to find private investors to prop up the New Zealand Super rugby franchises will not include the Highlanders, who have quietly spent the past three months looking for their own model of financial prosperity.

Mainland and East City claimed the early honours as the national league opened at Dunedin's Edgar Centre at the weekend.

Hockey is about to hog the limelight, with the Black Sticks men hosting the Champions Trophy in Auckland over the next week. Sports editor Hayden Meikle catches up with captain Dean Couzins.

It is surely only a matter of time before South African-born fast bowler Neil Wagner graduates from the Otago Volts to the Black Caps. Hayden Meikle looks at nine other cases of South Africans contributing to New Zealand sport.

Cricket was his life for a long time, and rugby has dominated his every waking moment for the last four years. But Richard Reid is a lifelong football fan and is now joining the round-ball code.

It seems to me the worst thing you can say about the third game in the ground-breaking Uncharted series is that it is more of the same.

This is how I know I am getting old.

If you are good enough, you are old enough. An 18-year-old Australian kid called Pat Cummins appears to be proof of that. Hayden Meikle names an XI consisting entirely of men who played test cricket before they blew out 19 candles.

Otago halfback Sean Romans has joined second-tier English club Nottingham on a one-season contract.

Zac Guildford isn't the first sports star to run into strife thanks to booze, and he won't be the last. Hayden Meikle looks at other cases where athletes battled the bottle.

It is an enduring mystery - not one of the great mysteries, but nevertheless a mystery - why I did not catch the comic book bug.