The rugby v league Fight for Life event happens this Saturday and provides a good mix of youth and experience, has-beens and wannabes, good lookers and good blokes.
The Black Sox team management and Bike NZ have stuck to their selection criteria and said sayonara to their stars.
Whatever way it's stated, Zac Guildford is a troubled man. I'm not convinced he thinks he has a problem, though. He says he is sorry, and that he has a "problem" but does he believe it or has he been coached to say this in order to appease those baying for his blood?
Rather than focus on whether or not Steve Williams is a racist, I'm more fascinated about the relationship between these two men. They are chalk and cheese.
Graham Henry has finally put into words what we all suspected. He has had enough of being a full-time coach and wants out.
It's over. The rugby ball-shaped, rose-tinted glasses are grudgingly coming off and my eyes are adjusting to a life without the Rugby World Cup tournament but at least knowing that the All Blacks have finally won the elusive Webb Ellis Cup.
If the tension and atmosphere at the South Africa-Australia quarterfinal in Wellington was anything to go by, my nails are going to be bitten until bleeding this weekend.
To "ambush" means "to lie in wait and attack by surprise" or "attack suddenly from a concealed position".
Even the most intrinsically motivated individuals need someone else to stoke the fire in their belly when the going gets tough.
Peter Love, trustee of Te Atiawa's Wellington Tenths Trust, says the haka has been "hijacked by rugby people" for commercial purposes and that Maori culture is being abused, overused and bastardised by sport.
We mustered all the sheep and fenced them in out of sight.
I think I'm coming down with a virus that has me dying to curl up on the couch with the only antidote that will make me feel better - the TV remote.
There is nothing more inspiring than sitting on the couch in your "attractive" flannelette pyjamas with a hot milo in one hand and as many biscuits as you can hold in the other, watching the world athletics championships late at night.
It's amazing what a bit of pressure can do. Sometimes it creates diamonds and at other times dust.
Someone did say "the day the Manawatu Turbos beat Wellington is the day hell freezes over".
Steve Williams is taking the break up with Tiger Woods more to heart than Tiger's wife Elin Nordegren did.
Williams should have asked her for advice on how to handle the split. She would have suggested hitting Tiger's car with a golf club and then remaining tightlipped and private from that point on.
No matter how you package it, boxing is a dog-eat-dog sport. That's why the boxing genre of movies tugs at the heart strings and speaks to a basic instinct in every human being: survival.
How weird is it watching provincial rugby live almost every night of the week?
What a depressing weekend. The weather was gloomy, and we lost two nationally significant titles to the Australians in nail-biting, sofa-jumping, hair-pulling fashion.
When are teams a flash in the pan or a phenomenon?
