Rugby: Season creeping closer
Rugby: Season creeping closer
It is only a few days into the new year and summer is well entrenched but the rugby ball is never too far away.
Steve Hepburn
Rugby: Shoemark still in pursuit of higher honours
Rugby: Shoemark still in pursuit of higher honours
Jason Shoemark has played for three provinces and two franchises, and had the chance to play rugby league last year.
Squash: Top award again for Otago club
Squash: Top award again for Otago club
For the second time in three years, the Otago University Squash Club has been named the best squash club in the country.
Rugby: Away strip on all away trips next season
Rugby: Away strip on all away trips next season
The Highlanders will be wearing away colours in every away game next season, even if the teams they are playing against are not wearing colour-clashing jerseys.
Rugby: Highlanders laying fitness foundations
Rugby: Highlanders laying fitness foundations
The Highlanders started their 2009 campaign yesterday with coach Glenn Moore saying the next three weeks would be about the squad "putting money in the bank".
Golf: Duncan coaches NZ juniors to win in China
Golf: Duncan coaches NZ juniors to win in China
Otago Golf Club professional Shelly Duncan coached the New Zealand side to victory at the Aaron Baddeley International Junior championships in China over the weekend.
Rugby: Reappointment of Martin questioned
Rugby: Reappointment of Martin questioned
A Dunedin club is questioning the reappointment of Steve Martin as Otago coach while another is wondering what direction Otago rugby is taking.
Softball: A battle, but Saints keep lead
Softball: A battle, but Saints keep lead
Saints stayed on top of the competition ladder but only after a tight win over Cardinals in Dunedin on Saturday.
Rugby: All Blacks do the job, but England below par
Rugby: All Blacks do the job, but England below par
So the Grand Slam has been won.
Rugby: Report premature: McLauchlan
Rugby: Report premature: McLauchlan
A report about the proposed number of home Super 14 games to be played at the Otago stadium, should it be built, was premature and the future format of the competition has not yet been decided, the Highlanders chairman says.
Rugby: Silverware aplenty at sevens event
Rugby: Silverware aplenty at sevens event
There will be plenty of silverware on display at the Queenstown National Sevens tournament early next year.
Rugby: Reid defends Martin's reappointment
Rugby: Reid defends Martin's reappointment
Steve Martin and Bruce Carvell were reappointed Otago coaches as they were the best candidates, Otago Rugby Football Union chief executive Richard Reid says.
Rugby: Latta wants to stop the hurt
Rugby: Latta wants to stop the hurt
David Latta just wants to stop the hurt.
Rugby: Bowden transferring to Auckland
Rugby: Bowden transferring to Auckland
Otago first five-eighth Daniel Bowden has transferred to Auckland but will still play for the Highlanders next season.
Rugby: National B competition victim of NZRU 'belt-tightening'
Rugby: National B competition victim of NZRU 'belt-tightening'
The national B competition has been scrapped, a casualty of the national union's belt tightening.
Team shows keen touch
Team shows keen touch
Kaikorai Valley College will make its third trip in as many years to the national touch championships next month.
Rugby: Codes pour cold water on hybrid match
Rugby: Codes pour cold water on hybrid match
Imagine Benji Marshall taking on Dan Carter. Or Richie McCaw having to stop Nathan Cayless.
Cricket: Injury again strikes McSkimming
Cricket: Injury again strikes McSkimming
The bad luck continues for Otago all-rounder Warren McSkimming, who re-aggravated a calf injury on Saturday and will not play for the Volts in the match against Canterbury, starting in Invercargill today.
Rugby: Same old plot as ABs deal to plucky Welsh
Rugby: Same old plot as ABs deal to plucky Welsh
If this was a movie, there would be accusations of plagiarism flying around.
Rugby Sevens: Otago loosie named in NZ squad
Rugby Sevens: Otago loosie named in NZ squad
Otago loose forward Paul Grant has been named in the New Zealand sevens squad to play in tournaments in Dubai and South Africa over the next couple of weeks.