Netball: Chance for Steel to grab home semi
Netball: Chance for Steel to grab home semi
The Steel has qualified for the play-offs but a home venue awaits if it can upset the New South Wales Swifts in Sydney tonight.
Adrian Seconi
Basketball: Recruitment seen as key
Basketball: Recruitment seen as key
The Otago Nuggets organising committee is determined to lift its game and do a better job recruiting next season.
Rugby: Family link makes for emotional final test
Rugby: Family link makes for emotional final test
For Sharyn Gavin, Carisbrook feels like a family member and letting go will not be easy.
Netball: Pace-setting Swifts beatable: Broughton
Netball: Pace-setting Swifts beatable: Broughton
The Steel is charging towards the play-offs but has to find a way around a wall in the form of Swifts defenders Sonia Mkoloma and Rebecca Bulley.
Rugby: Fans, players mix at afternoon bingo
Rugby: Fans, players mix at afternoon bingo
No 11 came up trumps again. This time it was legs-11 rather than All Black winger Joe Rokocoko, though.
Netball: Numbers could go against Steel
Netball: Numbers could go against Steel
Last year, goal percentage came to the Steel's rescue.
Basketball: Roster rethink needed after substandard season
Basketball: Roster rethink needed after substandard season
Recruit or else. After a winless season in the National Basketball League, the Otago Nuggets must face reality, basketball writer Adrian Seconi argues.
Rugby: Pupils get tips from heroes
Rugby: Pupils get tips from heroes
They are bigger than they look on television but only half as frightening.
Netball: Steel secures fourth win in row
Netball: Steel secures fourth win in row
Forget reputation. Netball is about precision, patience and urgency
Netball: Columba defends title
Netball: Columba defends title
Columba College made it two in a row with a comfortable 24-11 win against Waitaki Girls' High School in the final of the Otago secondary schools championship yesterday.
Netball: Goals vital for Steel in closing matches
Netball: Goals vital for Steel in closing matches
Complacency can sneak up on you like that power bill or holiday calories.
Basketball: Predictable end to Nuggets' dire season
Basketball: Predictable end to Nuggets' dire season
It was a sorry end to a sorry season.
Netball: Frew, Steel with score to settle
Netball: Frew, Steel with score to settle
Steel vice-captain Wendy Frew has a score to settle.
The last time the Steel played the Northern Mystics Frew's opponent, Temepara George, left her groping in her wake.
The classy centre took control of the midcourt and set the tempo with an equal measure of feistiness and finesse.
The Mystics out-enthused the Steel, winning 52-49 in Invercargill.
Ice hockey: French pair to sharpen Thunder's edge
Ice hockey: French pair to sharpen Thunder's edge
Quentin Pepy and Martin Millerioux are expected to score goals and help the Dunedin Thunder win games.
Basketball: Getting Otago back in the mind game
Basketball: Getting Otago back in the mind game
Stop thinking about winning. That is the first piece of advice sports psychologist Ken Hodge would offer the Otago Nuggets if they came knocking at his door looking for some tips to help break their lengthy losing streak.
Stadium: Irish rugby impressed by progress
Stadium: Irish rugby impressed by progress
Ireland Rugby Football Union team services manager Gerard Carmody gave the Forsyth Barr Stadium the thumbs-up yesterday after a brief visit to the construction site.
Netball: Steel 'coming home like a train'
Netball: Steel 'coming home like a train'
The Southern Steel has received some praise from an unlikely source.
Cricket: Lancashire contract 'amazing' chance
Cricket: Lancashire contract 'amazing' chance
BlackCap and Otago all-rounder Nathan McCullum has just signed a contract to play twenty/20 overseas - the next goal is to secure a New Zealand contract.
Basketball: Coach wants repeat effort to snare win
Basketball: Coach wants repeat effort to snare win
Otago Nuggets coach Alf Arlidge was left wondering what his side needs to do to get that elusive win after its last outing.
Hockey: Olympic selection 'awesome'
Hockey: Olympic selection 'awesome'
Hockey-mad Columba College pupil Samara Dalziel has Olympic fever.