Home and away
Home and away
Home is where the heart is. But what if the heart is in two places? Former ODT sports editor Brent Edwards explains how his is often torn between two countries 16,000km apart.
Brent Edwards
Cricket: Lees and Otago champions both
Cricket: Lees and Otago champions both
It could not have been a more fitting farewell for Warren Lees, Otago's most successful cricket captain, if he himself had written the script.
Cricket: Separating the batting wheat from the chaff?
Cricket: Separating the batting wheat from the chaff?
Aaron Redmond has cause to be more than a little miffed at his dropping from the New Zealand cricket team.
Opinion: Future holds more foreign flavour
Opinion: Future holds more foreign flavour
Expect more overseas-born players, as well as overseas-born coaches like Steve Rixon and newcomer Andy Moles, to be part of New Zealand cricket teams in the future.
Opinion: Talk of Otago doing double not just idle chat
Opinion: Talk of Otago doing double not just idle chat
There's an air of confidence on the eve of Otago's State series cricket campaign, and justifiably.
Opinion: Brewer faces big challenge in role for Scotland
Opinion: Brewer faces big challenge in role for Scotland
It's nothing new these days for New Zealand coaches to prepare teams from other countries to play against the All Blacks.
Opinion: How the face of rugby has changed in 10 years
Opinion: How the face of rugby has changed in 10 years
It's 10 years ago today that Otago won the national rugby championship at Carisbrook and the streets of Dunedin were packed with revellers as the province celebrated.
Opinion: Bond's career limps to an unsatisfactory end
Opinion: Bond's career limps to an unsatisfactory end
He has been the second most destructive bowler in New Zealand cricket history, but it has been an unsatisfactory, messy end to Shane Bond's international career.
Stags, Magpies show it's not all about the dollars
Stags, Magpies show it's not all about the dollars
It's one of the feel-good stories of the rugby year as Southland prepares for its first national championship semifinal this weekend.
Coaches latest to join the rugby merry-go-round
Coaches latest to join the rugby merry-go-round
It's not only players whose futures are being decided in the final stages of the national rugby championship.
What, no Bert?
What, no Bert?
Joseph Romanos' best-ever New Zealand test cricket team is as notable for who is not in it as who is, writes former Otago Daily Times sports editor Brent Edwards writes.
Opinion: Aitken's position under pressure
Opinion: Aitken's position under pressure
If ever New Zealand netball had a chance to make a statement against Australia, it was in Christchurch on Wednesday night.
Champion coach was an inspiration
Champion coach was an inspiration
Duncan Laing, a giant of Otago sport, died aged 77 on Saturday. Former Otago Daily Times sports editor Brent Edwards pays tribute to the great swimming coach.
Rugby: World Cup venues reveal dull Dunedin rugby
Rugby: World Cup venues reveal dull Dunedin rugby
The announcement of the 2011 World Cup quarterfinal venues emphasised how much professional rugby has hurt Dunedin and Otago.
Rugby: Hint of interest in Tri-Nations despite low standard
Rugby: Hint of interest in Tri-Nations despite low standard
This may be the first time that anybody actually gives two hoots about who wins the Tri-Nations rugby championship.
Carisbrook Top 5: All Black captain sidesteps credit
Carisbrook Top 5: All Black captain sidesteps credit
Sean Fitzpatrick deflected the credit for his game-breaking try after the All Blacks beat the Wallabies 25-10 to regain the Bledisloe Cup amid euphoric scenes at Carisbrook on Saturday.
Henry should mend fences, not bear grudges
Henry should mend fences, not bear grudges
For a man who has consistently declared he just wants to move on from the World Cup, All Black coach Graham Henry has a strange way of showing it.
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