Forty-nine days. Seven full weeks after the worst season in modern Otago rugby history came to a merciful close, one rather important question has still not been answered.
Fallout: New Vegas's epic scope is both its greatest strength and it's biggest weakness.
North Otago rubbed salt into the Otago rugby wound by claiming a shock semifinal win at the South Island sevens tournament in Timaru at the weekend.
Why did so many New Zealand cricket fans take so much pleasure out of England grinding Australia into the Gabba dust on Monday?
There is an ongoing debate in our household about the Star Wars franchise and which part of it truly possesses the force.
There have been changes aplenty at the Otago Table Tennis Association but president Stephen Burgess is confident the sport will not suffer.
A Jamie Robinson three-run homer powered Dodgers to a 7-6 win over Ellis Park in the senior men's competition in Dunedin on Saturday.
Like most people, I have a few secret shames that are generally kept well hidden beneath the veneer of my otherwise normal and respectable existence.
A big, shiny, black book arrived in the office a few days ago.
Skateboarding? Skateboarding? Isn't this Shaun White dude better known for snowboarding? He sure is.
One of the great things about cricket is it gives you, the reader and fan, plenty of opportunities to debate which players would fill a best XI.
Sorry to bang on about North Otago for another week but you will just have to indulge me.
Say, who is that athletic-looking fellow on the cover of this game?
It was, to put it mildly, a day for the batters in Dunedin premier men's softball on Saturday.
Eight reasons why you should go to the Meads Cup final in Oamaru or at least watch it on television this afternoon:
North Otago chases its fourth piece of silverware in eight years when it hosts the Meads Cup final on Saturday. Clinging on to the side of the scrum, as he has in the three previous finals, will be rangy flanker Ross Hay. He tells sports editor Hayden Meikle this might be his last dance in gold.
Shaun Haig and Neil Broom made the most of their opportunities as the Otago trial wrapped up at Molyneux Park yesterday.
Eight years ago, North Otago rugby got a monkey off its back when it sealed an extraordinary resurgence with victory in the old third division final.
A football-loving colleague of mine always says the same thing when the new Fifa game hits my desk.
We have struggled to get along, Formula 1 and me.