Steven Adams will be in the global spotlight when - not if - his name is called in the NBA draft today. Hayden Meikle explains the significance of the event and tries to work out which team will take a punt on the giant New Zealand basketballer.
Perhaps Grid 2 is a sort of gaming equivalent of fine wine. Perhaps it will, indeed, get better with age.
Don't panic! Like most football fans, I'm still in a state of semi-shock following news earlier this week of Sky Sport losing rights to the English Premier League.
Dunedin football fans may have to be content with watching the Wellington Phoenix on television next season.
The most extraordinary Electronic Entertainment Expo in recent history is in the books. Gaming reviewers Hayden Meikle and Simon Bishop share their highs and lows.
My column will be a little different this week.
Highlanders scrum coach Kees Meeuws had barely finished celebrating the win over the Blues when he learned of another pleasing result.
Jamie Joseph is an impressive man.
Antoine Tisby reaffirmed his status as one of the premier big men in the national league and the Otago Nuggets resumed their winning form in Hamilton last night.
Otago golfer Greg Turner jokes he is easing himself into the next phase of his playing career by starting with two major championships.
Richard Perkins has been through the good times and the bad - the very, very bad - at the Otago Rugby Football Union. Through it all, his determination to look after the sport at amateur levels has not wavered. Sports editor Hayden Meikle talks to the ORFU's community rugby manager.
Here is a line I have never used in 15 years of writing about sport and video games: Man, that niblick is a handy club.
Otago rugby administrators are buzzing after five players - the most from the province in 13 years - were named in the New Zealand under-20 team.
You might say they are getting greedy but few could begrudge the talented Laughton sisters their latest piece of silverware.
Two rugby fans met to digest the latest awful news from the most awful season in Highlanders history.
Richard Murray is ''disillusioned'' at seeing his Otago United tenure cut short and has not reapplied for the job.
There has, rightly, been a lot of discussion of late over the make-up of the All Black midfield for the French series and beyond.
It always seemed like one Otago-based team, having enlisted some star power to form its most powerful squad in years, would dominate its competition this year.
Indian cricket great Sachin Tendulkar turned 40 yesterday. Hard to believe, right? Hayden Meikle looks at other examples of elite athletes who kept going into their fifth decade, or beyond.
Two great Otago rugby families feature in a dream team representing 125 years of the Cromwell club.
