Football: The 50 million quid team
Football: The 50 million quid team
The January transfer window always throws up some bizarre transactions in English football.
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Gaming highs: Major League Baseball 2K11
Gaming highs: Major League Baseball 2K11
Video game reviewer Hayden Meikle names his favourite sports games. Today: Major League Baseball 2K11.
Best of the rest: Dunedin hosts world u-17 football pool (1999)
Best of the rest: Dunedin hosts world u-17 football pool (1999)
The football world came to Carisbrook. And it was brilliant.
Sport: Still dreaming of a ticked-off bucket list
Sport: Still dreaming of a ticked-off bucket list
Bucket lists can be as broad or as narrow as you like. Sports editor Hayden Meikle identifies the 10 great sporting events he would like to attend.
Review: Shane Warne Cricket '99
Review: Shane Warne Cricket '99
Video game reviewer Hayden Meikle names his favourite sports games. Today: Shane Warne Cricket '99.
Cricket: Loss puts Volts under pressure
Cricket: Loss puts Volts under pressure
Otago had the life squeezed out of it yesterday and must now hope its entire twenty/20 campaign does not suffer the same fate.
Best of the rest: Hall of Fame moves to Dunedin (1999)
Best of the rest: Hall of Fame moves to Dunedin (1999)
Have you visited the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame? If not, shame on you. The hall is one of Dunedin's special attractions, and a place (and organisation) that should be treasured by all New Zealand sports fans.
Cricket: Chance for Sparks to salvage pride
Cricket: Chance for Sparks to salvage pride
Just one game remains for the Otago Sparks to salvage some pride from what has been a wretched season.
Cricket: Otago frustrated by rain - again
Cricket: Otago frustrated by rain - again
Otago coach Vaughn Johnson hopes a call for reserve days in the twenty/20 competition won't be seen as a case of sour grapes.
Sport: Sirs or dames they all should be
Sport: Sirs or dames they all should be
Graham Henry has joined the likes of Peter Snell, Colin Meads, John Walker, Russell Coutts and Susan Devoy in the exclusive club of New Zealand sportspeople given knighthoods. But who else might be worthy? Hayden Meikle considers 10 options.
Best of the rest: First Winter Games
Best of the rest: First Winter Games
Few sports have climbed out of the shadows quite as dramatically in recent years as the winter codes.
Athletics: Lovelock's perfect race still rousing
Athletics: Lovelock's perfect race still rousing
With the 2012 London Olympics just around the corner, we thought we would look back at some of our favourite Olympic moments. Today, Otago Daily Times sports editor Hayden Meikle looks at Jack Lovelock's 1500m win at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Tennis: Queen of the court
Tennis: Queen of the court
Kate Nunneley. Ringing any bells? Well, it should.
Best of the rest: Leonard King, an All-Star and outstanding guard
Best of the rest: Leonard King, an All-Star and outstanding guard
Imports come and imports go in the National Basketball League. Few make as much of an impact as Leonard King.
Best of the rest: First NZ Open at The Hills (2007)
Best of the rest: First NZ Open at The Hills (2007)
The news was as unexpected as it was exciting. The country's biggest golf tournament, the New Zealand Open, was coming to Otago, to a course few had even seen, let alone realised was good enough to host such a marquee event.
And the 2011 awards go to ...
And the 2011 awards go to ...
Gaming is a strange industry. You wait for months for the best games and then about 30 come along at once. Reviewer Hayden Meikle hands out his awards for the year in gaming.
2012 sporting predictions; most of them serious
2012 sporting predictions; most of them serious
Can you predict with any sort of accuracy what the sporting world will deliver in 2012? Of course not. But Hayden Meikle will try. Here are 20 vaguely possible predictions for the new year.
Like the NBA but need a team to support?
Like the NBA but need a team to support?
Hoops fans can rejoice - the National Basketball Association resumes on Christmas Day (well, our Boxing Day) after a protracted dispute between the players and the owners. But which team should you support? Hayden Meikle offers some tips.
Cricket: Eight teams to vie for honours in the Big Bash
Cricket: Eight teams to vie for honours in the Big Bash
Australia's souped-up Big Bash twenty/20 league starts tonight, and has dreams of becoming cricket's premier competition. Hayden Meikle checks out the teams.
All Black 'violated' by burglary
All Black 'violated' by burglary
All Black loose forward Adam Thomson normally has a way with words but he was struggling to describe his emotions when he discovered some of his most prized possessions had been stolen.