Miguel Herrera, the latest coach of the Mexican football team not to get the axe, has been nicknamed Barney Rubble by the media because he looks (and acts?) like the likeable Flintstones character.
Did you know that the Rugby League World Cup was the first competition to be known as the ''Rugby World Cup''?
''For every door that closes another one opens.''
What a coup for Lydia Ko. She used an All Black to put a different slant on her announcement that, after weeks of speculation, she had finally turned professional.
At the Massey University Blues Awards, Olympian heptathlete turned high jumper Sarah Cowley spoke about how she lived and breathed the dream of being an Olympian.
Cups and trophies - old and new - have been battled over recently, including the Auld Mug, the NRL premiership trophy, the Constellation Cup, the Ranfurly Shield, the Rugby Championship Trophy and the JJ Stewart Trophy.
I'm glad I'm not a sailing fanatic or America's Cup follower.
Jamie Mackintosh will miss the game against Manawatu this week due to a one-week ban he received for stomping/stamping on a Waikato player's back, which ripped the red, black and yellow hoops to shreds and left no doubt in our minds that this form of the game is well and truly being stamped out.
Here we go again.
Maori rugby is like the birth of a royal baby- you're either obsessed about it or not the least bit interested and a little annoyed by it.
We've all known about the global economic crisis for some time, but it looks like professional athletes in the rugby codes are only just starting to feel the effects.
Britain is on a high with Andy Murray breaking the men's singles drought at Wimbledon and the Lions returning home victorious. Whether a team represents Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England, it's great to be British these days.
You don't often see men in rugby jerseys openly crying, but there have been two that come to mind recently.
Tennis is all about one-on-one rivalries.
Has England become our arch nemesis on the rugby field and have we come to accept its dominance?
Like a big bear that stirs as hibernation comes to an end, Richie McCaw is starting to grumble about bringing his sabbatical to a close.
Like a fizz bottle that has been shaken, it was inevitable that Sir Graham Henry was going to blow his top sooner or later.
There have been a few retirements for coaches and players recently that have made me contemplate how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things.
Despite recently terminating an agreement to endorse a range of spa pools, Dame Susan Devoy continues to find herself in turbulent hot water.
The previous headquarters of one of New Zealand's biggest sporting organisations is like a flashy winger, standing on the fringes with the wind from the waterfront brushing against its pretty but earthquake-prone structure - making it look elitist and isolated.
