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Pressured to end Partnership with PUMA
The below e-mail was sent to Netball New Zealand in response to the anti-Israel campaign being waged by the usual suspects ( John Minto and the Palestinian Solidarity Network) to pressure them into cancelling their relationship with PUMA. Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2021 9:38 am To: Info @ Netball New Zealand
Sport New Zealand Gets the “Diversity‘N’Inclusion” Treatment
Contrary to Rob Muldoon’s one-liner, it’s become pretty clear that Australia is the beneficiary when we send Kiwi jetsam packing back home, whether it’s gang criminals or high-profile sports administrators. We even managed to end Russell Crowe’s singing career. Raelene Castle was sent packing after three
Letter to the Editor: My Local Bowls Club Has Opened Up Its Greens since Level 3
Dear Editor My local bowls club has opened up its greens since Level 3. The conditions adhere to those of the Covid-19 website, which refers to the SportsNZ website. The Bowls NZ website also lists the same conditions. These are that players can only play within their household bubbles, there
Face of the Day
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.
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
Tokyo Paralympics: Why Para Taekwando Is the Most Thrilling New Sport
Jožef Šimenko University of Essex Dr Jožef Šimenko is a Lecturer in the Essex Pathways Department at the University of Essex. He is a module leader for the Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology module. He joined the Pathways department in August 2019. For fans of martial arts, Tokyo 2020 was
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
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
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