Thinking outside the squared circle
By Aiden McLaughlin So, Joseph Parker v Junior Fa is now confirmed for December 11th at Auckland’s Spark Arena. If you can’t make it in person then you can watch[…]
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Fields of Unglory: The Blurred Lines of Elitism in College Sport
By Paul Montague Never had much of a rugby career- two years at high school was my lot. In the opening game of my third season, I knocked my head[…]
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Phoenix From The Flames
By Aiden McLaughlin With no live sport for the foreseeable, Sportsfreak towers has tried to make Level 4 that bit more interesting for you all with the Looking Back series and[…]
“Old Man Radio” Hit for a Six
By Paul Montague It’s pretty difficult to think of a more damaging psychological hit over the boundary than being fired smack in the middle of a nationwide lockdown and when you’re[…]
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When Good Nostalgia wasn’t that Great
By Paul Montague Retro should by rights equate to an escapist ramble through a yearned for, sepia-tinted past. Not always though. ‘We never had it so good’ on closer inspection could at times actually mean the complete opposite. If you thought the dire ‘Melody[…]
“Stuff” Spark Sports
By Hamish Girvan The exit of New Zealand from the Rugby World Cup last weekend will provide Spark Sports customers another opportunity to exclusively watch another All Black game –[…]
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Eye on NZ Press Box
By The Spotter Here’s a good litmus test- if Sky’s sports opinion programme ‘NZ Press Box’ were a podcast, would you bother tuning in much? Because apart from Nate Rarere, Huw Beynon, the sometime appearance of Ravinder Hunia, and[…]
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Hugh McIlvanney
By Aiden McLaughlin There are sports writers and then there was Hugh McIlvanney. News of Hugh’s passing broke this afternoon, just a week short of his 85th birthday. A proud Scotsman,[…]
Memories of a TV One Icon
By The Spotter Peter Williams retired from TVNZ last weekend after almost 40 years of sterling service. It was as a sports frontman and cricket commentator that he cut his teeth with[…]
