It is exactly 50 years since the greatest day in the history of North Otago rugby. Grass-roots heroes were made when the tiny province beat the touring Wallabies in Oamaru. Hayden Meikle gathers some stories from the famous day.
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Dunedin Thunder goaltender Rick Parry is not exactly sure what to expect but is excited to be getting a chance in the professional ranks.
Vaughan Johnson has confirmed his loyalties remain with Otago and he will not be applying for the role of Black Caps bowling coach.
Tony Brown was an uncomplicated sort of player in his Otago heyday and he wants his unheralded young team to adopt the same approach.
Young first five Hayden Parker and his unheralded backline mates inspired Otago to a 46-34 win over Northland in Dunedin today.
Adam Thomson concedes the thought of finishing his career in New Zealand as a one-team man holds plenty of appeal.
Otago Boys' High School is through to the top four of the national First XV rugby competition.
Blue must be joking Look, we get it. Professional sport is a tough business. Good results are considered essential, not a bonus. Coaches and athletes are treated as dispensable. It's win or go home.
Not a single Olympic book among this group. Perhaps our golden girls and boys will have their stories out by Christmas.
After the party So, where were we? It is back to the non-Olympic sporting life, sadly. Time to find something else to fill the sports pages, the evening viewing and the workplace debates.
Long-serving Otago Boys' High School administrator Brian Ashwin has been suspended for four weeks for deliberately fielding an ineligible player.
Football fans have barely had time to take a break. Since the end of the last English Premier League season, the European Championship and the Olympic football competition have kept the beautiful game on our screens. And now, the big show is back. Hayden Meikle offers an A to Z of the new season.
The world junior track cycling championships are about to start in Invercargill and Hayden Meikle talks to four local contenders.
New Zealand rowing Gold Medallists Hamish Bond, Mahe Drysdale and Eric Murray, with their Gold Medals after they won, at Eton Dorney during the 2012 London Olympics. Photo from NZ Herald.
London called - and the New Zealand Olympic team answered.
Pocket rocket Lisa Carrington's gold medal sprint in canoeing on Saturday night capped a marvellous two weeks for New Zealand at the world's biggest festival of sport.
Carrington won the country's fifth gold medal and 13th in all, equalling the record haul of the 1988 team in Seoul.
The Southern Stampede has created some serious momentum as it stages what once seemed an unlikely charge to the playoffs.
New Zealand has won its 100th medal in Olympic competition. Hayden Meikle looks back over the century of success.
Rugby is New Zealand's national game, but the success of our rowers in London has taken that sport to the forefront of the public consciousness. Could Olympic glory lead to a long-term lift in status for the folks with oars? Hayden Meikle breaks down the appeal of the respective codes.
Too much advertising. Doping. The wrong sports. Obscene amounts of money being spent on too few people. Crass displays of national pride bordering on xenophobia. The chequered history of the IOC. It's all just a game, anyway.
One of the big what-ifs of Graham Henry's career has nothing to do with Wayne Barnes.
