Hayden Meikle

You can argue the Bismarck du Plessis case from all sorts of angles, but one major theme seems to have been ignored.

Malcolm Fleming knows Burnley has some ground to make up in Dunedin, but he remains adamant the club's development centre can thrive in the city.

Brendan McCullum played a captain's knock to lead the Otago Volts to victory in their opening Champions League qualifying game in India this morning.

Really, you can't go wrong if you include the word ''craft'' in the title of your new handheld game.

Former Dunedin man Ross Blackman's ''heart just stopped'' when he saw Team New Zealand nearly capsize yesterday.

Gavin Stark's name sticks out like a sore thumb in the New Zealand schools squad.

OPINION: The first point to make is that it is not necessarily a bad thing that the Highlanders are going through a mass exodus of players on a scale with any period in their history.

An English club running a development centre in Dunedin claims it will be business as usual despite the abrupt departure of its coach.

Promising openside flanker Hugh Blake will make his return from injury to help Otago face the daunting challenge of playing Canterbury in Christchurch on Saturday.

Three books by or about one of our greatest cricketers and all with titles that perfectly sum the man up.

The master of fear continues to prove he has more than a single string to his bow.

My 10 favourite moments from the 2013 Otago Ranfurly Shield reign. 

Otago coaches Tony Brown and Phil Young are weighing up their options for a forced backline reshuffle for the first defence of the Ranfurly Shield on Sunday.

Hundreds of Otago rugby players have tried and failed to win the Ranfurly Shield, but the group of successful challengers includes some of the province's greats. Hayden Meikle picks out some Otago shield heroes.

Ding dong, the witch is dead. Immortal words, uttered by rugby league coaching great Jack Gibson when he finally guided the Parramatta Eels to their first title in 1981.

A picture tells a thousand words, but Stephen Barnes can sum up his Ranfurly Shield memories in just six.

They're back. Welcome to the fourth annual Otago Daily Times sports power rankings. Your guide, as always, is Hayden Meikle.

Read this. Read the story of Damien Echols and tell me you still support the death penalty. I dare you.

Bravo to the North Otago Rugby Football Union for drawing a line in the sand over the growing issue of referee abuse.