Here We Go, Again
My response to Alice Soper discovering America is bad (again) and calling for a boycott. Another response to another NZ Herald article.
Sport
A Life of Courage, Curiosity and Change
By her proud sibling – This is not an obituary: Lorraine is still alive and kicking!
Face of the Day
The board will run an open recruitment process for the group chief executive.
Moller and Dixon: Giants of NZ Running
It was a great privilege for my generation to grow up admiring and being inspired by these remarkable people. It is clear that there are many role models for 10-year-old NZers today to be as inspired by as I was at Cooks Gardens in the 1970s.
Knight of the Day
“For me it’s just a massive honour, not something I would ever expect or even thought was ever going to be a possibility,” Dixon told Stuff.
Why Do Cricket Balls Have To Be So Hard?
While a layperson may view cricket as a non-contact sport, the truth is batting and fielding require great courage, considering the hardness of the ball and the speeds it can reach.
Face of the Day
Sofiia Lyskun represented Ukraine at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics.
This Backlash Is Only the Media
Athletes should be free to play and free to say “no thanks” to political messaging without the threat of cancellation hanging over them.
Netball New Zealand’s Leadership Crisis
The Noeline Taurua fiasco exposes a deeper problem.
Faces of the Day
With the stakes never higher in this world title eliminator, the reality, though, could be the opposite approach for a fight fittingly dubbed “all or nothing”.
The Fans Must Be Allowed to Attend
Could you imagine the outrage if the team were Palestinian? One must ask, would this decision have originally been made if fans from Palestine had been visiting Aston Villa to play a fixture? With a suspected ‘two-tier’ system in this country, probably not.
Face of the Day
The incident occurred at the end of the 1994 season, just before Roberts had come out.