Ask Southerners why the Steel can win the ANZ Championship and most will answer ‘‘the Robyn Broughton factor''. The extraordinary coach led the Sting to unparalleled success but starts with a blank slate with the Steel. Netball writer Adrian Seconi reports.
Hawkes Bay Hawks coach Shawn Dennis believes the Otago Nuggets play with heart but said the organisation needed to show some backbone to help turn the franchise around.
Former Australian shooter Megan Dehn can't roll her Rs, but when it comes to slotting goals, she is a past master.
Otago Nuggets import Lemar Gayle yesterday quit after he was fined $500 for "inappropriate behaviour" and making negative comments in the newspaper.
Multi-talented athlete Renee Johnson divides her time between basketball, netball, touch and probably a bit of homework.
A team that stays together plays well together. At least that is how it has been for the Otago Volts during the past three seasons.
Wellington Saints 93 Otago Nuggets 73 If the Otago Nuggets have not started thinking about next year yet, then they should. This season is beyond salvaging after the beleaguered...
Otago Nuggests star player Lemar Gayle is frustrated.
The day the Otago cricket side won the team of the year at the Otago Sports Awards, it lost one of its best players.
New Zealand's two premier professional tournaments may be staged back-to-back next year as a scheduling squeeze impacts on the New Zealand Open.
Otago Nuggets Nat Connell and Steve Robinson have received six-week suspensions from the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand for cannabis use, but they could still face further punishment from their franchise.
Despite choking on the black during the final, Dunedin's Sam Chin held on to beat Canterbury's Ceri Worts and claim the South Island eight ball pool championship at the Pool House in Filleul St, Dunedin, over the weekend.
The Magic dealt the Steel a 56-47 defeat and gave the Otago-Southland combined team plenty to think about going into its bye week.
The first thing you need to know about Ben Holmes is he is not a football hooligan. But he is slightly mad - mad about Portsmouth, that is.
It wasn't the whisky , gin or three or four six-packs, but it might have been the wine.
Silver Ferns coach Ruth Aitken had her way the five New Zealand franchises would be import-free zones.
In what could be considered netball's version of television reality show Survivor, evergreen midcourters Amigene Metcalfe, Jenny-May Coffin and Julie Seymour have been trying to outwit, outplay and outlast each other for more than a decade.
After an eight-year hiatus, the North Otago Penguins are dusting off the singlets for a new season.
Basketball Otago might be slightly in the red but it is delivering fillet mignon on a mince-on-toast budget, chief executive Mark Rogers says.
Southern Steel shooter Daneka Wipiiti had it all her own way the last time her side played the Canterbury Tactix.
