The IPL on the Grassy Knoll
The IPL auction is always way more entertaining than the tournament itself, and not only because it is undertaken at a NZ friendly time zone. There are clearly a lot[…]
Monthly Archive: January 2018
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Pucked Off
By Harbour Heather The NHL has effectively robbed hockey fans of some of the most anticipated match ups the upcoming Winter Olympics could offer, after banning their contracted players from[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 26 January
The heat and the shade. Roger Federer serving at the Australia Open. Sloane Stephens making up for an early exit by getting a deal with Harper’s. Meet Joan Williamson; grandmother[…]
The Romance of the Cup
It might not have quite the allure in New Zealand as it did in the 1970s and 80s, but there is still something about the FA Cup. The Merseyside derby[…]
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Is Ice Slowly Melting?
By The Spotter It was an unpredictable outcome about which the incorrigible ego-maniac Trump somehow tried to take credit for. And it is an outcome that should by rights be the[…]
Wellington Cricket’s Great Debate
By Scott MacLean On Friday Wellington played host to the fifth and final ODI in the series against Pakistan. Roughly 4,500 people were there to watch it. On Monday Wellington[…]
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We only sing when we’re losing
Today’s Radio Sport talkback consisted of debating whether David Kidwell should keep his job (seriously), why people don’t like the Patriots, and schadenfreude at the Australian cricket team’s woes in[…]
NFL Conference Championship Weekend
By Hamish Girvan This analogy has been used before – and then there were 4. Winner of each game goes to the Big Dance. A NFL pundit in November stated[…]
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Cricketing angst
By Martin Hearnden Two headlines, with tenuous New Zealand links, have stirred the cricketing world in the past 24 hours. A highly contentious dismissal at the World U19s and the[…]
