Kiwi-born cricketing all-rounder Ben Stokes has bid his family goodbye and has boarded a plane to join the rest of his Indian Premier League Rajasthan Royals teammates in the United Arab Emirates. Stokes’ father, who resides with the rest of his family in Christchurch, was in January this year diagnosed ….
New Zealand UFC lightweight fighter Dan Hooker says he’s perfectly happy to spend Christmas Day in a bio-bubble if that would lead to him clinching a match-up with Tony Ferguson. Watching others compete at the Octagon while being stuck at home forced to watch fights on live-stream instead of actually ….
Italy’s Sara Errani – a 2012 French Open runner-up – says she didn’t “buy” Kiki Bertens’ claims of cramps bad enough to justify being wheeled from a Roland Garros tennis court in a wheelchair. She also appeared to mock her opponent’s cramps and even went as far as refusing to ….
Top prop Aganatius Paasi has confirmed that he won’t be staying on with the Warriors for another season. Instead, subject to his getting the necessary visa, he’ll be joining Super League club St. Helens. Since the Warriors prop has played in at least half of all Warriors games played over ….
New Zealand Rugby has expressed its disappointment over the possibility of All Blacks players having to this year choose between playing in the Rugby Championship, and spending Christmas with their families. And the blame, says New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson, lies with Sanzaar and the recently released championship’s draw. ….
Word on the street is that Australian netball skipper Caitlin Basset, in an attempt to keep her professional career alive, is eyeing New Zealand’s 2021 domestic competition. Having only played a single game out of four in recent Super Netball games for the Giants, Bassett is now forced to look ….
Kiwi U.S. Open golfer-contender Danny Lee is starting to run a serious risk of ridicule after yet another quitting stunt pulled on Sunday following a disastrously poor six-putt performance played on the final hole at Winged Foot. And as for the excuse this time round – a supposed injury sustained ….
His IndyCar Series debut in the October-scheduled season finale in Petersburg in Florida is officially booked, a super excited Scott McLaughlin has confirmed. Initially pegged to compete in his long-awaited first IndyCar Series race earlier this year, the Kiwi’s dream of participating was instantly shattered when the global health disaster ….
New Zealand’s Silver Ferns say they’re positively holding out for international games played opposite either Australia or England in November – right here at home. Not only has Netball New Zealand been in constant talks with England Netball and Netball Australia over the course of recent months, specifically regarding the ….
The remaining two Bledisloe Cups are secured to be played in New Zealand once more – this after NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Government’s decision to relax its isolation protocols so as to ensure the Wallabies are able to properly prepare for the first of the two tests, namely ….
