From afar

The response to a perceived threat to survival is in all of us but reveals itself in various forms often referred to as the fright, fight or flight response.

Al sports should offer ex-players a soap-box for venting when they retire. Oh, the home truths they would tell!

What gets measured gets done, so irrespective of the reasons for a recent wave of open and embracing gestures within sport, the intention creates awareness, momentum and change -which can only be a good thing.

During a visit to the New Zealand Rugby offices in Auckland I noticed a digital clock counting down the days to the Olympics.

According to an article on forbes.com in 2012, the average worker stays at each job for 4.4 years, but the expected tenure of the workforce's youngest employees is about half that.

Netball Australia has decided it is better off without us, and is about to sign a deal with one of the highest-ranking networks in Australia as well as the NRL and AFL.

Foxes are slightly smaller than a medium-sized dog.

Like Usain Bolt out of the blocks, the Rio Olympics are fast approaching.

As parents psych themselves up for winter sports, they may have to prepare for not only chilly mornings and soggy uniforms, but a hike in sports fees too.

Women who dominate their sport are as rare as hen's teeth, but when they do, they are a force to be reckoned with and are difficult to displace from their peak position.

Former New Zealand women's hockey player Honor Carter (nee Dillon) posted a cryptic tweet recently announcing that she refuses to be a shadow to her husband's life.

When exploring what to write about this week the idea of World Cups seemed top of the list.

''Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regret so love the ones who treat you right and forget the ones who don't. Remember everything happens for a reason. If it changes your life, let it. No-one said it would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it to live your life and chase your dreams.''

''Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regret, so love the ones who treat you right and forget the ones who don't. Remember everything happens for a reason. If it changes your life, let it. No-one said it would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it to live your life and chase your dreams.''

Freedom of speech plus global circulation of visual and audio recordings via social and corporate mediums equals Trouble with a capital T for individuals in sport with a tendency to run off at the mouth or be trigger happy with a smartphone.

The New Zealand Rugby Union has every right to be concerned about the request of Benji Marshall to be released from his two-year contract with the Blues part-way through the Super 15 season.

It has been difficult lately to look away when high-profile athletes have failed to engage their frontal lobe and practise self-control and good judgement.

Many of us have heard of the glass ceiling and perhaps the glass network (old boys' network), but there is a new catchphrase in gender equity dialogue known as the glass cliff phenomenon.