Alistair McMurran

Frugal management and careful expenditure contributed to an $80,000 profit made by the Otago Cricket Association in the last financial year.

Alhambra-Union club chairman Gary Wheeler has played a key role in restoring the morale of the Otago rugby community after the problems faced by the Otago Rugby Football Union this year.

The return of experienced prop Tama Tuirirangi at tighthead will add grunt to the Otago pack for the Championship final against Counties-Manukau tomorrow night.

Matt Gallop will achieve a long-held dream when he represents New Zealand at World Bowls in Adelaide next month.

Former double world champion Rowan Brassey was known as the Ice Man. Shannon McIlroy needed the same cool temperament on the North East Valley green yesterday,The Nelson-based bowler won his third Speight's Invitation singles when he beat fellow World Bowls player Tony Grantham (Auckland) 25-24 in a dramatic final.

Scott Cottrell (Auckland) learned a hard lesson when he lost the quarterfinals at the North East Valley green yesterday.

It was love at first sight when Black Jack Tony Grantham met his future partner, Leanne Chinery, in Australia in 2007.

Otago Spirit gave a gutsy display and rattled Auckland for 40 minutes. But it was not able to sustain its effort in the second spell and lost 28-17.

Ali Forsyth has been given a new role in next month's World Bowls at Adelaide.

Former international bowler Mike Kernaghan (Dunedin) proved at the North East Valley Bowling Club yesterday that he can cope with disrupted sleep.

Gymsports is one of Sport New Zealand's foundation sports along with swimming and athletics. Gymsports New Zealand chief executive Sarah Ashmole told sports writer Alistair McMurran how gymsports impact on other sports during the national championships at the Lion Foundation Arena at the Edgar Centre this month.

The 2010 World Cup gold medal has pride of place at Hailee Hurring's Dunedin home.

Black Jack Shannon McIlroy (Nelson) has one target this weekend - to win his third singles title on the North East Valley green.

Six competitors at the London Olympics had been the recipients of Skeggs Foundation grants and this has prompted the foundation to add $50,000 to its twice-yearly grants round.

Kerry Stoddart changed her job in a bid to make the Black Ferns for the 2014 World Cup in France.

Otago competitors finished the New Zealand Gymsports championships in style by winning three rhythmic gymnastics gold medals on Saturday.