Steve Hepburn

There is a commitment to provide meaningful basketball at the grassroots level in Otago next year but clouds hang over representative teams.

John Haggart has emerged as a contender to be the next Otago coach as the former assistant eyes a return to the province.

The southern women's sevens team performed well at the first stage of the national series in Taupo at the weekend.

The All Blacks are Stateside and are spreading the rugby message. But what would have happened if Columbus had got his bearings all wrong, the British ended up discovering the United States, and rugby had become the national game? Rugby writer Steve Hepburn looks at a dream team of the land of the free and home of the brave.