By Toni Bruce, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work/Te Kura Akoranga me Te Tauwhiro Tangata, University of Auckland. Nigel Owens has been named as referee for the All[…]
The changing face of New Zealand sports broadcasting. NFL on free-to-air; who saw that coming? Why can’t Manchester City play Champions League football? And what do we believe may or[…]
The World Athletics Champs. No, this is not the hop skip and jump; it’s the 400 metres heats. Which is a Segway into the moment when Usain Bolt got chopped[…]
Finally we have video coverage of the New Zealand tour to South Africa. Cricket South Africa has come to the party after SKY NZ and IMG fought out a ridiculously[…]
More fool us. Between the last T20 and last night’s first ODI there was the feeling that this was like the end of the Transfer Window. A lot of the[…]
The New Zealand cricket team is currently touring South Africa where they have just drawn a T20 series. We know this because there are scorecards on Cricinfo and the NZ[…]
Sometimes you do wonder at what motivates the media when they run a news story. On both the Stuff and NZ Herald sites today, there is a non-story about former[…]
Criticising television commentators is an enjoyable and honourable pastime. And Test Match cricket provides lots of time to indulge in it, and that is what a lot of people have[…]
Online TV service Lightbox and Coliseum Sports Media today announced a joint venture partnership to bring premium sport content to more New Zealanders. The venture will be called Lightbox Sport[…]
Two weeks ago there was Cringe Week where the nation found every possible reason, perceived or real, to feel outraged by the sheer evil of The English. Their players, their[…]
