Jamie Mackintosh will miss the game against Manawatu this week due to a one-week ban he received for stomping/stamping on a Waikato player's back, which ripped the red, black and yellow hoops to shreds and left no doubt in our minds that this form of the game is well and truly being stamped out.
Here we go again.
Maori rugby is like the birth of a royal baby- you're either obsessed about it or not the least bit interested and a little annoyed by it.
We've all known about the global economic crisis for some time, but it looks like professional athletes in the rugby codes are only just starting to feel the effects.
You don't often see men in rugby jerseys openly crying, but there have been two that come to mind recently.
Tennis is all about one-on-one rivalries.
Has England become our arch nemesis on the rugby field and have we come to accept its dominance?
Like a big bear that stirs as hibernation comes to an end, Richie McCaw is starting to grumble about bringing his sabbatical to a close.
Like a fizz bottle that has been shaken, it was inevitable that Sir Graham Henry was going to blow his top sooner or later.
There have been a few retirements for coaches and players recently that have made me contemplate how insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things.
Despite recently terminating an agreement to endorse a range of spa pools, Dame Susan Devoy continues to find herself in turbulent hot water.
The previous headquarters of one of New Zealand's biggest sporting organisations is like a flashy winger, standing on the fringes with the wind from the waterfront brushing against its pretty but earthquake-prone structure - making it look elitist and isolated.
The politically and emotionally charged term ''terrorism'' comes from the French terrorisme, which means terror, great fear and dread, and is related to the Latin verb terrere, to frighten.
The dust has hardly settled after the controversial BothaSBW fight and already organisers have asked the dubious South African boxer to step into a New Zealand ring once again.
It's time to get the court shoes out from the back of the closet, go for a few runs, and dust off the skirt that thousands of women will be wearing as the netball season gets under way.
The NZRU has laid its cards on the table and unveiled six ambitious goals in a ''Towards 2016'' document which reveals a changing rugby landscape.
Will it be a case of third time lucky for the Highlanders as they face the Chiefs in Hamilton tomorrow night?
The latest drama to hit Australian sport is the controversial suspension of cricketers Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja for the third test against India.
Are we seeing the end of an era for New Zealand softball at Rosedale Park? Gone are the days of world domination for the Black Sox which came to a screeching halt in 2009, when Australia's Steelers took over as world champion.
Women's rugby had Melodie Robinson, tennis had Anna Kournikova (and still has Maria Sharapova), motor racing has Danica Patrick, and mixed martial arts now has a new champion for women keen to enter the cage, with Ronda Rousey defending her UFC title recently.
