Adrian Seconi

Lots of work has to be done if the Otago Nuggets are to rejoin the National Basketball League - and time is running out. Adrian Seconi reports.

Taieri first five-eighth Josh Casey is poised to joined an exclusive club.

Premier club rugby was played in the worst conditions of the season, but Southern produced a top defensive effort to defeat University A 11-5 in the V.G Cavanagh Memorial at Bathgate Park today.

King's High School's Josh Aitcheson is further proof good basketball stories still exist in the city.

South Otago High School swept aside Waitaki Boys' High School 45-31 in Oamaru on Saturday to record its eighth consecutive win in the Otago premier schools competition.

While it is ''Old Members' Day'' at the Southern club tomorrow, a short hop away, Alhambra Union first five-eighth Peter Breen will celebrate his 100th game for the club.

Dunedin Thunder assistant captain Luke Pickering is hoping this season might be the year he shrugs off sport's most unfortunate tag - runner-up.

Mosgiel cyclist Brad Evans is calling his back-to-back stage wins on the four-day Tour of Toowoomba last week the best results of his career.

Left winger Luke Jarvie sprinted 70m to score what proved to be the decisive try for John McGlashan College in its tense 11-5 win over the Otago Boys' High School Second XV on Saturday.

Pirates registered their third win this season with a tense 26-16 win against Alhambra-Union at Hancock Park today.

What this tour needs is a third test before the five ODIs and twenty20 international tacked on the end. That said, it will be great fun watching a new-look England team scramble to match the Black Caps' aggressive approach to the game. Cricket writer Adrian Seconi reports.

University A's campaign is at a critical juncture.

Janet Main is well placed to assess Otago's prospects of returning from Wellington this weekend with its first title since 2011.

Harbour loose forward Ratu Dawai will miss the next two matches but could incur a much longer ban.

The Otago Goldrush was hoping rather than counting on Tall Fern Samara Gallaher being available for the finals of the Women's Basketball Championship in Porirua next week.

Otago boxers claimed six Golden Gloves titles at the South Island championships in Kaiapoi at the weekend.

Basketball Otago's long financial battle is coming to an end after creditors agreed to accept 30c in the dollar.