Adrian Seconi

Former Otago Nuggets coach Alf Arlidge cannot wait to get courtside to support his old team again.

For the first time since the World Junior Championships started, no player from Otago, Southland or North Otago has made the New Zealand Colts side.

Highlanders loose forward Elliot Dixon will notch 100 Super Rugby games for the franchise against the Jaguares at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday.

Southern men stormed to a 5-0 win against Central at the under-21 nationals in North Harbour yesterday.

Southland Boys' High School has made a successful return to the Otago premier school competition.

Wakatipu High School enters the unknown today.

There is a champion in our midst.

Otago Boys' High School First XV has sent its opponents a warning with a convincing display in its opening Otago premier schools game at Littlebourne on Saturday.

Southern teams made contrasting starts at the under-21 nationals in North Harbour yesterday.

Combine and destroy. Or something like that.

The Otago premier schools rugby competition begins today. Sports reporter Adrian Seconi looks at how the teams are shaping up.

Alexandra cyclist James Williamson has moved from competitor to organiser.

The Southern women have modest goals at the national under-21 championships which get under way in North Harbour tomorrow.

Harbour coach Ryan Nicholas is mostly happy with how the Hawks are placed a third of the way through the round robin.

Geoff McPhee's first game of rugby was probably played in bare feet and on frosty ground.

The man who crushed the Highlanders' spirit with a sensational dropped goal could be heading south next season.

Former Otago all-rounder Jimmy Neesham is back on the pay roll.

Otago coach Rob Walter was not interested in going anywhere else.

The Black Caps have a super sub waiting in the wings should injury strike one of the top-order batsmen before the World Cup.

Courtney Duncan has moved on from a mysterious crash and will resume her tilt for a maiden Women's Motocross World Championship in Portugal later this month.