Hayden Meikle

Arrowtown businessman Michael Hill may have to double his financial input if he wants to keep the New Zealand Open at his private club.

Dunedin premier assistant coach Ross Hanson has been given a sideline ban by his own club after going on to the field during a game and pushing a player.

Dunedin businessman Ian Taylor has made an impassioned plea for the New Zealand Open to stay at a course he rates among the best in the world.

An off-duty police officer called for back-up after witnessing a fight during the First XV match between King's High School and John McGlashan College in Dunedin on Saturday.

Thirty-six All Black tests have been played at Carisbrook since the first in 1908. Sports editor Hayden Meikle looks back on a century of All Black highs and lows at Dunedin's famous ground.

Jerry Sigmund knows a thing or two about fighting against the odds.

Once every four years, the world comes to a standstill for a sporting event that doesn't need spurious viewing statistics or hyperbolic press releases to label itself the biggest on the planet.

Israel Dagg's agent says neither the new All Black fullback nor the Crusaders should be penalised for being ambitious.

The first major step in resuscitating rugby league in Otago has been taken with confirmation of a club competition later this year.

• The dark side of rugby Hadengate bears uncomfortable similarities to a famous case involving sport and racial stereotyping in the United States.

It is an unfashionable position, sort of the rugby equivalent of netball's wing attack or football's holding midfielder. But most good teams have a decent second five-eighth to complement a classy first five-eighth

Many an hour has been lost in my household thanks to cartoonish kart racing games.

• The coaching conundrum It never pays to have too much sympathy for a rugby coach at the professional level.