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.
Kate Nunneley. Ringing any bells? Well, it should.
Imports come and imports go in the National Basketball League. Few make as much of an impact as Leonard King.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Cardinals put one hand on the pre-Christmas trophy with back-to-back wins in the premier men's competition on Saturday.
Team success will always usurp individual glory for Craig Cumming.
Call me a hopeless optimist (most don't) but I am actually quite excited about the prospects of this big new golf tournament at The Hills.
The Otago Sparks fought hard with the ball before slipping to a six-wicket loss in a twenty/20 match against the Auckland Hearts yesterday.
David White does not technically start in his role as New Zealand Cricket chief executive until February.
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A process to find private investors to prop up the New Zealand Super rugby franchises will not include the Highlanders, who have quietly spent the past three months looking for their own model of financial prosperity.
Mainland and East City claimed the early honours as the national league opened at Dunedin's Edgar Centre at the weekend.
Player-coach Brendan Taylor believes Otago can get better with more opportunities against top opposition.
