Farewell Beautiful Lady
By Scott McLean In the annals of Australasian horse racing, few thoroughbreds have generated as much adulation and affection as Makybe Diva, the only horse to ever win the Melbourne[…]
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Rennie to the rescue
By Aiden McLaughlin Three years is a long time in rugby. Ditched by the Wallabies at the start of 2023 as Rugby Australia panicked before that year’s World Cup, Dave Rennie[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 1 March
Farewell to the 2026 Winter Olympics. The Good. And the not so good. Auston Matthews, Zach Werenski, and Matthew Tkachuk hold aloft the jersey of the late Johnny Gaudreau, who[…]
Inevitable
By Scott MacLean I was somewhat fortunate to be somewhere else on Saturday afternoon, as it spared me from the inevitable in Derby Three for the 2025/26 A-League season. Why?[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 22 February
Bless the Winter Olympics. China’s Chen Meiting rises high a practice run for the women’s freestyle skiing aerials qualifiers. Friso Emons, of the Netherlands, skates during the men’s 5000m relay[…]
Sporting Pictures of the Week 15 February
The first Winter Olympics medal for a South American, and it’s a gold. A different type of celebration from the Austrian snowboarder. I was looking back at you to see[…]
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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy
By Rahul Patil Every world cup has its share of upsets. As a fan you just hope it’s not your team at the wrong end of one. So far in[…]
Blackcaps Dish Out Scrumptious Entree
By Rahul Patil Two years back the blackcaps failed to make it past the group stage at the T20 World Cup in the West Indies. They lost to Afghanistan and[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week 8 February
Winter Olympics corner. The Swiss mixed double curling team is married and when their match ended they played with their Curling Baby. Team China speed skaters are put through their[…]
Super Bowl LX Preview. Part II
Yesterday the Sportsfreak NFL crew – Hamish Girvan, Jonathan Paterson, Ryan Nixon, Stephen Gallagher, and Scott MacLean – started their look at Monday’s (NZT) Super Bowl LX. Today, we wrap[…]
