The Breakers showed just how comfortable those white road singlets sit on their shoulders this season, going into a graveyard known as 'The Sandpit' and coming out alive.
Tom Abercrombie may be below his all-star best this season, but he's hoping this weekend's All-Star Game will prove a catalyst for a comeback.
A rule change in State of Origin eligibility which will see fewer Kiwi players defect to Australia has been greeted as a "really positive outcome" by New Zealand Rugby League.
Ross Taylor has continued a media offensive against Mike Hesson and New Zealand Cricket, showing an aggression usually reserved for the batting crease.
One loss hardly seems reason to ring the changes, but the Wellington Phoenix's problems run much deeper than yesterday's defeat by Sydney.
As the New Zealand cricket captaincy fiasco bubbled to a boiling point today, the only man to emerge with his credibility intact was deposed skipper Ross Taylor.
The New Zealand men's hockey team learned the hard way that hockey can be a game of inches, as their medal hopes at the Champions Trophy came to an end today.
Cedric Jackson was the Breakers' best player in his first season at the franchise and, instead of enduring a sophomore slump, he has just got better.
After a final day featuring drama, rain and one of the rarest dismissals in cricket, Otago's Plunket Shield match with Canterbury finished in an anticlimactic draw today.
If shooting for a seventh straight win wasn't motivation enough, Mika Vukona revealed the Breakers had a little extra incentive to beat Townsville tomorrow night.
BJ Watling has perhaps been the only Black Cap to enhance his reputation in Sri Lanka, something he hopes to continue in tonight's final one-dayer.
Another day and another rain-interrupted loss - New Zealand's tour of Sri Lanka has taken on an all-too-familiar look.
Any athlete would curse their luck if they suffered the sort of injury run Jerome Ropati has recently encountered - but Ropati has found the silver lining.
The last time Marco Rojas played the Wellington Phoenix, he left with a broken jaw. This time, he left with a broad smile.
After playing like a Premiership team for much of the season, Counties Manukau were tonight rewarded for their efforts with promotion to the top flight of the ITM Cup for the first time.
Almost a year to the day after seeing his beloved All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup for the second time, Sir Wilson James Whineray has died at 77.
Those hoping for an English football-like handshake controversy before the Breakers game against Townsville tomorrow night might be sorely disappointed.
When Shane Smeltz scored both New Zealand goals in a meritorious draw against Wales in 2007, there was little indication he would soon become the All Whites' all-time leading scorer.
The All Whites appear to have learned the lessons of their ill-fated Oceania Nations Cup campaign, securing an invaluable 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Tahiti in Papeete tonight. New Zealand...
Counties Manakau continued their push for promotion in the ITM Cup, clinching top spot in the Championship with a 44-31 win over Northland in Whangarei today.
