Bowls: Club backing pensioner's champs bid
Bowls: Club backing pensioner's champs bid
The good news: Port Chalmers bowler Allan Warren has been named in the New Zealand team for the sixth International Deaf Bowls championships in Perth next year.
Alistair McMurran
Squash: Young guns off to national champs
Squash: Young guns off to national champs
A group of Dunedin pupils will be the youngest squash team to represent the Otago district at a national championships.
Curling: Kearney gears up for Korea
Curling: Kearney gears up for Korea
Warren Kearney (Ranfurly) has hung up his rugby boots for the season and will now spend his spare time on the ice preparing for the Pacific Curling championships in South Korea in November.
Bowls: Rejuvenated Walker falls short in final
Bowls: Rejuvenated Walker falls short in final
The Professional Bowls Association has given former World Bowls representative Ken Walker (Fairfield) a new lease of life, as he showed in Australia this week.
Rugby: Brace for birthday boy in interschool
Rugby: Brace for birthday boy in interschool
John Hampden Grammar centre Jack Bower celebrated his 18th birthday yesterday by scoring two tries in an interschool game in Dunedin.
Football: Dream achieved in South Africa
Football: Dream achieved in South Africa
When Brent Best started refereeing 25 years ago, he never thought he would be part of a small band of five New Zealand football referees who have officiated at a World Cup.
Athletics: Otago six named in NZ team
Athletics: Otago six named in NZ team
Dunedin physical education student Roseanne Robinson (Hill City) is one of six Otago athletes named in the New Zealand team for the Oceania championships in Cairns in September.
Rugby: University A wins championship banner
Rugby: University A wins championship banner
A late try by All Black Adam Thomson sealed University A's 48th Speight's championship banner when it downed Alhambra-Union 14-3 in the Dunedin premier club rugby final at Carisbrook today.
Rugby: Top honour for club stalwart
Rugby: Top honour for club stalwart
Gail Phillips epitomises the contribution that women make to rugby clubs throughout the country.
Rugby: Al-Union fails to get prop in final
Rugby: Al-Union fails to get prop in final
The Otago Rugby Football Union has rejected Alhambra-Union's bid to play prop Dane Maraki in today's championship final at Carisbrook.
League: Cross-code interest high
League: Cross-code interest high
Four rugby clubs - Kaikorai, Harbour, Pirates and Zingari-Richmond - will enter teams in the Dunedin rugby league competition next month.
Rugby: Veteran Vaafusuaga happy to call time on career
Rugby: Veteran Vaafusuaga happy to call time on career
Veteran Erik Vaafusuaga will make his final curtain call for Taieri on Saturday in his 269th premier rugby game.
Diving: Making the jump to judges' table
Diving: Making the jump to judges' table
Simon Latimer almost made the Commonwealth Games in Manchester as a diver.
Squash: Logan Park club keen to move with the times
Squash: Logan Park club keen to move with the times
There is no truth to the rumour that the Logan Park Squash Club is pulling the pin.
Athletics: Shields picking rise of US runners
Athletics: Shields picking rise of US runners
New Zealand middle and long-distance runners have had more success on the international stage than runners from the United States.
Rowing: Australia takes the day, NZ the series
Rowing: Australia takes the day, NZ the series
It was Australia's day when it dominated the third transtasman university rowing test on Otago Harbour on Saturday.
Bowls: Young hand at tiller of Dunedin game
Bowls: Young hand at tiller of Dunedin game
New chairman Josh Freeman hopes to weave his magic, restore the fortunes of Dunedin bowls, and concoct a new formula for Bowls Dunedin.
Synchronised swimming: Top coach holdingclinics in Dunedin
Synchronised swimming: Top coach holdingclinics in Dunedin
Top United States synchronised swimming coach Lala Smith is holding clinics for coaches and swimmers at Moana Pool at the weekend.
Ice skating: Relays key in NZ making 2014 Winter Olympics
Ice skating: Relays key in NZ making 2014 Winter Olympics
Ice Speed Skating New Zealand is pinning its hopes on Bradley Tuhi (Canterbury) and Allie Rout (Auckland) to spearhead the country's bid to qualify relay teams for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
Rowing: Strack bound for world under-23 championships
Rowing: Strack bound for world under-23 championships
North End club rower Lucy Strack will take the first step towards the London Olympics when she competes at the world under-23 championships in Belarus this month.