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All Black and Maori All Blacks legend Waka Nathan played 23 times for the All Blacks including 14 Tests. Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.

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How the Feds Enabled a Predator

How the Feds Enabled a Predator

The Catholic Church has been rightly reviled for its years of covering up for the horrendous crimes of a small core of paedophiles in its ranks. So why aren’t other organisations who are still doing the same not subject to the same opprobrium? Think schools, for example: abusers are

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NFL Continues to Make Life Difficult for Those Who Do Not Get the Vaccine

John Simmons newsbusters.org Imagine a world in which a professional athlete – in peak physical shape — could be ridiculed and punished for not taking an experimental vaccine for a disease with a minimal death rate. Sounds too ridiculous to actually happen, right? Well, not exactly. Bills wide receivers Isaiah McKenzie

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40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

40 Years Ago the Springbok Rugby Tour Divided New Zealand

Eliora Here are two book reviews that are very different from each other, but equally good reminders that 40 years ago a Springbok rugby tour divided New Zealand. The violence that occurred has been at times labelled as eight weeks of “Batons, Brawls, Barbed wire and Boks.” Hold The Line

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Winning on the Water, DNA, and Cancel Culture

Winning on the Water, DNA, and Cancel Culture

Hobson’s Pledge Trust A scrap between a couple of entrepreneurs, Sir Ian Taylor and Troy Bowker, would probably have died a quiet death if Bowker was not part-owner of the Hurricanes rugby team, according to talk show host Peter Williams. See Troy Bowker In response to a post by

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Press Statement from Troy Bowker

Press Statement from Troy Bowker

Troy Bowker My discussion on Linkedin In with Sir Ian Taylor was never intended to involve rugby or my involvement with the Hurricanes as a shareholder and board director. However, it is clear that this has become the central focus for the media rather than the important issues around New

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Get Woke, Go Broke: Footlong Version

Get Woke, Go Broke: Footlong Version

You’d think corporations would have got the memo by now. Gilette, Nike, Coca-Cola. From the biggest (Disney) to small companies (Black Rifle Coffee, Handsome Her Cafe), and Hollywood (Ghostbusters 2016, Ocean’s 8). The lesson should be clear: Get Woke, Go Broke. But there’s always another company lining

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