Joe Schmidt: Ordinary Joe
By Aiden McLaughlin At the start of April this year, I attended a fundraiser for the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union. Joe Schmidt was the guest speaker. As with all these[…]
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Tyson Fury: Behind The Mask
By Aiden McLaughlin Trust Tyson Fury to come in and make it all about him. As Deontay Wilder puts another title defence behind him with a recent knockout win over[…]
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Brothers in Black
Do you think we are out of new angles to chronicle the history of the All Blacks? Not so. In Jamie Wall’s Brothers in Black there is a retrospective of[…]
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Preferred Lies
Golf is a sport with quirky traditions and customs like no other. In Preferred Lies by Charles Happel and Mike Clayton the history of the sport is covered thoroughly. It[…]
Shane Warne:- No Spin
Whatever you may think of Shane Warne, there has never been a dull moment. No Spin not only covers an extraordinary career; 708 test wickets, a couple of World Cups,[…]
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My Life, My Fight
Is it time for another Steven Adams Biography book review? Maybe not, but it’s worth it. Adams’s upbringing is best described as unorthodox. He was one of 14 (he suggests[…]
A Clear Blue Sky
A Clear Blue Sky is not a premature autobiography of Johnny Bairstow. It is not a biography of his father David Bairstow. It is not a study into the pitfalls[…]
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Under the Southern Cross
Andrew Ramsay is the type of articulate Australian cricket journalist that is not from the club of recent Channel 9 days. Here he has written the history of Ashes cricket[…]
Great Australian Test Cricket Stories
Ashley Mallet is best known as an Australian off-spinner who took 23 tests to reach 100 test wickets, which happens to be the same number of tests as Shane Warne,[…]
