Former Black Stick James Nation will round out his career playing for Southern in the National Hockey League.
Southern hockey teams tend to attract two types of players - those at the start of their career and those coming to the end of it.
Otago has signed two experienced but relatively unknown English professionals for the domestic twenty/20 tournament.
Molyneux Park is back on the domestic schedule - all it needs is the green light from New Zealand Cricket.
Southern Steel coach Robyn Broughton is happy enough with her side's ANZ Championship draw for 2011.
Expansion team Pelichet Bay will be disbanded and Otago Country will take its place in the first round of the Dunedin one-day club competition this summer.
Southern Steel coach Robyn Broughton was just as baffled with the Silver Ferns' sudden loss of form as the rest of us.
Helping the St Kilda Saints beat the Magic 77-64 and claim the Dunedin club title partly came as a relief for star player Tom Rowe.
Forget the playoffs - Otago looks like it has a fight on its hands just remaining in the top division.
Defeat was the size of a hockey boot.
Old enemies the St Kilda Saints and the Magic will once again compete for the honours in the final of the Dunedin club basketball competition at the Edgar Centre today.
Until now, Emily Close has not had time to fit in an Otago campaign.
The Dunedin-based Scorpions ran out of sting in the national club final in Napier but their second placing was a reasonable effort, leading player Alicia Malcolm says.
Clarke Johnstone, originally of Outram, has been selected in the New Zealand World Equestrian Games eventing team
Southland Boys' High School seized the initiative in the Highlanders First XV competition with a hard-fought 23-19 win against Otago Boys' High School in Invercargill on Saturday.
For the past three years, Otago goal keep Jess Moulds has done her best to stop players scoring, only to slip through the net herself.
Port Chalmers bowling club has helped raise the $2000 bowler Allan Warren needed to join the New Zealand team at the sixth International Deaf Bowls championships in Perth next year.
Former Pakistan batsman Billy Ibadulla is saddened by reports linking the subcontinent team with a match-fixing scandal.
Fringe Otago pace bowler James Fuller has signed a three-year deal with English county Gloucestershire but will be available for the province this summer, Volts coach Mike Hesson says.
Kristin School pupil Jane Lee coped best with the trying conditions to claim individual glory at the New Zealand intercollegiate final at the Otago Golf Club yesterday.