The Clash of the Provincial Titans
By The Spotter Legacy. If you were anywhere within earshot of Lancaster Park, Christchurch sometime between 2.30 and 4.30pm on September 14, 1985 (or one of the more than 52,000 actually[…]
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Fancy a Game?
By The Spotter What does an All Blacks cap mean these days? Lima Sopoaga recently came out and said the allure wasn’t quite there any more. We know that’s mostly[…]
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Lockerroom on the up and up
By The Spotter Award-winning journalist and writer Suzanne McFadden’s ‘Lockeroom’ arrived with a much-needed bang on the NZ sports media landscape a little over six months ago. If you haven’t already taken a[…]
Throwing up an Air Ball
By The Spotter The NZ Breakers badly botched their lay-ups and jump shots way before tip-off to their ANBL season last night. Because online comments made over the years by those associated with[…]
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Tougher than any UFC Nonsense
By The Spotter Way back when, in 1979, when Auckland somehow rose from the gallows with quarter of an hour left to pip Counties in easily one of the most famous[…]
Get out; see the light
By The Spotter Last Sunday morning I did my first running event in ten years. Once upon a time I managed to run marathons. But the last one was so long ago, sportsfreak was still several years[…]
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Roger T-S is the Real Deal
By The Spotter That really was something. A really good and slightly unexpected surprise. And so was the haka immediately following. The former Otahuhu Leopards junior just nabbed the biggest individual gong in Australian[…]
About Time They Cared For Their Most Vulnerable
By The Spotter ‘And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things’ (Terry Pratchett; Carpe Jugulum). In a really significant article in the latest Weekend Herald, Joel Kulasingham reported on[…]
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World Champion Sore Losers
By The Spotter How embarrassing and immature; we never learn do we? Would it be that much of a stretch and would it ache that much, just for once, FOR[…]
Out-thought and Ambushed
By The Spotter Drink, will the Boks on to survive, bloody idiot. I did cheer for them right at the end, I admit it. There may be a meeting called under some[…]
