Otago coach Lauren Piebenga has named her first squad and believes she has the talent to defend the title the province won last season under previous coach Deb Tasi-Cordtz.
International cricket will return to Queenstown when the Black Caps play the West Indies in a one-dayer at the resort early next year.
Martin Crowe is an unashamed Ross Taylor fan.
Five Steel players will join 19 other Silver Fern hopefuls at the national trials in Auckland early next month.
Yet more evidence hockey is on the upswing in the region: five Southern players have been named in extended New Zealand under-18 squads.
The draw for the twenty20 Champions League has been released and Otago will open its campaign against the Faisalabad Wolves on September 17.
Domestic contracts are due out at the end of the week.
Otago will play five warm-up matches against a combined New Zealand and Northern Districts team in Tauranga in mid-August in preparation for its tilt at the twenty20 Champions League in India in September.
The future of basketball in the region is in good hands with the Otago under-17 boys team beating Auckland 81-74 in overtime yesterday to claim the national title.
Dunedin Technical has a point to prove against its highly-rated Canterbury opponent, the Coastal Spirit, at Tahuna Park tomorrow.
Do you think Tab Baldwin, Pero Cameron and Paul Henare are ever up at 1.30am doing the team laundry?
He is probably the toughest and most tenacious player in the league and it is up to BJ Anthony to find a way to shut him out of the game.
The Otago Nuggets made the NBL playoffs for the first time since 1997. Basketball writer Adrian Seconi reviews a season which promised but did not quite deliver a title.
What shape will the Otago Nuggets take next season?
Some interviews are a lot harder than others.
''We kind of beat ourselves,'' Otago Nuggets captain Mark Dickel said the morning after his side was eliminated by the Nelson Giants in the semifinal of the National Basketball League.
The Otago Nuggets will have an opportunity to play for the NBL title if they can get past the Nelson Giants in the semifinal in Napier tonight. To do that, they will need to be at the very top of their game in four key areas. Basketball writer Adrian Seconi reports.
The Nelson Giants will have to dictate terms if they hope to get past the Otago Nuggets in the National Basketball League semifinal in Napier tomorrow night, coach Liam Flynn says.
Second chances come around every now and then - Markham Brown had to wait 16 years for his.
After months of trawling through copies of old newspapers, the Otago Daily Times can bring its readers comprehensive team statistics for the Otago Nuggets. Individual statistics are still incomplete but we have a much larger view of the overall picture. Basketball writer Adrian Seconi crunches the numbers for the hoops tragics.
