Adrian Seconi

Former Six60 band member Hoani Matenga cannot even get a gig for the music committee these days.

The letters `LH' on his left wrist support actually stand for Love and Hannah - his daughters - not left hand.

Southern's hockey teams had contrasting fortunes in round six of the National Hockey League in Whangarei yesterday.

Suzie Bates is always busy but this summer shapes as more hectic than most.

The indoor cricket nets at the Edgar Centre will get a $170,000 upgrade next month.

Porirua claimed the title and the Otago men finished a creditable fourth at the National Basketball Championships in Auckland last week.

The National Hockey League tournament week gets under way in Whangarei today with both Southern sides still searching for a win this season.

Wanaka-based adaptive skier Adam Hall has made a promising start to his season, winning the standing slalom event at the Winter Games yesterday.

''OK, here we go again.'' That is what Lorenzo Romar first thought when he learned there was some 2.08m, 118kg teenage basketballer in New Zealand hoping to play college basketball in the United States.

The cost of installing permanent floodlights and expanding the embankments at the University Oval is expected to increase from $2million to $2.3million.

Test hockey could return to the deep south early next year, but in the meantime fans in Otago will just have to continue waiting.

Dual representative Polly Inglis must have learned something during those family backyard cricket tests and indoor hockey games.

A big thank you.