Hayden Meikle

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.

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.

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?

Rebellion! Treachery! Or maybe not.

Rain, rain, go away. That is the fervent hope of Softball Otago, which is desperate for a fine weekend to complete the 2011-12 season.

Glory for Hamish Rutherford, but frustration for Otago as it again failed to finish off an opponent.

Tennis games have never received the sort of love showered on Fifa, Madden, Tiger Woods PGA Tour et al.

No longer can Hamish Rutherford be described as merely a limited-overs blaster, or the son of an Otago great.