A fresh-looking Ice Blacks team will face a tough challenge at the world second division group A championships in Iceland over the next week.
Alison Shanks and her team-mates are contributing to a golden era in track cycling. New Zealand completed its most successful world championships campaign in Melbourne on Sunday night, raising the prospect of multiple medals in the London Olympics. Sports editor Hayden Meikle talks to a key player behind the team's success.
Dwayne Weir can hardly be accused of getting carried away with dreams of success.
The Nuggets have shown they can beat up teams their own size. Now it is time to slay a giant.
It is 40 years since a ground-breaking law was passed in the United States. Title IX made it illegal for any organisation receiving federal funding to discriminate on the grounds of gender.
Mike Delany will not exactly be in foreign territory when he becomes the latest player to join the Highlanders from Japan.
The ANZ Championship resumes this weekend. Hayden Meikle identifies five rookies to watch.
Finding another first five-eighth is the immediate priority for Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph as he contemplates his squad's bulging injury toll.
Colin Slade's luck has run out again and the Highlanders face yet another injury crisis.
Colin Slade and John Hardie are the major casualties as the Highlanders contemplate a horror injury list.
Don't blame the jersey.
Derek de Boorder hopes his Otago team can send Craig Cumming into a happy retirement - and without a wooden spoon.
An English international and a forgotten flanker will be in the spotlight for the Highlanders when they play the Brumbies tonight.
I was leaning towards cynicism for most of Tuesday night as a prominent television programme staged its show in the Octagon.
Highlanders lock Jarrad Hoeata made a low-key but safe return from injury yesterday.
It will be years before the stain of the Otago rugby crisis is washed away.
Colin Slade admits he is not quite up to speed as his battered body readjusts to the demands of the Super 15.
Amateurs paired with professionals at the weekend, playing two-ball, best-ball for the associated Pro-Am Championship.
No-one said the road to redemption would be easy. That was just one of the themes to emerge from the Nuggets' loss to the Saints in the National Basketball League match at the Edgar Centre last night.
Liquidation? Or living to fight another day?