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ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Otago players after their victory over Waikato at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Sunday.

The young guns of the Civil Service club set their team up for victory in the 65th edition of the Peninsula Relay on Saturday.

The mystery object which killed driver Rutger Telford Hale on State Highway 6 near Lake Hawea last year almost certainly came from an oncoming vehicle and caused the ''most unusual wound'' a pathologist had seen in 30 years of practice.

First it was Shaun. Now comes Samson - yet another Australian sheep trying to snatch New Zealand's claim to the world's heaviest fleece.

Is it bad timing or the world's most stupid vandal?

Dutch snowboarder Coen van Rosmalen (24), who died after being struck by a taxi in Wanaka at the weekend, had a strong effect on everyone he met in his short time in the resort, a friend said yesterday.

Arjan Dasselaar has taken himself from ''Operation Walrus'' to ''Operation Marathon'' within two years of tipping the scales at 154kg.

A dutchman hit and killed by a taxi in Wanaka on Sunday was not ''staggering drunk'' and may have been on the road because of a ''prior event'', police say.

Otago's thrashing in the Ranfurly Shield challenge against Hawkes Bay was reminiscent of a challenge from yesteryear, says ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire, as he looks at this and other key points from Sunday's game.

A young man who died after being hit by a car in Wanaka overnight has been named by police.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Otago players after their loss to Hawkes Bay in their Ranfurly Shield challenge in Napier yesterday.

It was a family affair on the half-marathon course yesterday for two-time Olympic Games representative Robbie Johnston.

A lot of hard work, a lot of running, consistency and staying injury-free were Tony Payne's key ingredients to retaining the Dunedin marathon title in emphatic style yesterday.

Shrek owner John Perriam this month came close to calling off a display of the hermit merino's mounted remains planned for Te Papa.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire looks at some of the key points following last night's test between the All Blacks and the Springboks in Wellington.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire picks out some key points from Otago's ITM Cup match against Northland on Wednesday night.

Wanaka search and rescue volunteers carried out their fourth serious job in as many weeks yesterday after a teenager fell about 150m down a steep gully at Treble Cone skifield.