Adrian Seconi

Two years ago, no-one wanted to play for the Otago Nuggets basketball team.

Tony Brown or Phil Young - or perhaps a combination of both - will coach the Otago team next year.

For breakfast, it is 12 egg whites washed down with some water - welcome to Sam Mausii's life for the next six weeks.

Talented Alexandra cyclist James Williamson is coming to the end of his first professional season with Pure Black Racing and tells sports reporter Adrian Seconi it has been a steep but valuable learning experience.

Otago shooter Te Paea Selby-Rickit scooped the major prize, player of the year, at the Netball Otago awards at the Edgar Centre last night.

The Otago Daily Times counts down the 150 greatest moments in Otago sport.  No 37: Sutcliffe belts Auckland for 355 (1949-50)

The Yellow Fever will be back, and so will their team.

Brave but defeated. Otago traded goals with Canterbury in the final of the national championships in Porirua yesterday but could not match a surge from the defending champion in the second quarter.

A new club cricket season always infuses teams with fresh optimism. That is especially the case this summer for Kaikorai, a club fighting its way to the top. Adrian Seconi previews the season.

Otago smashed Wellington 57-45 in the semifinal and has a chance to create history when it plays Canterbury in the final of the national championships in Porirua today.

Otago Nuggets coach Alf Arlidge will get the opportunity to finish what he started two years ago.

Few saw it coming, but Tall Blacks guard Mark Dickel always planned to return home and play for the Otago Nuggets "one day".

You have to be more than just tall to be a good basketballer.