By Aiden McLaughlin So, overnight, it seems that the inevitable has happened; South Africa has withdrawn from the Rugby Championship. With official confirmation a matter of hours away, it will[…]
Tagged: politics
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The Rugby Championship
By Aiden McLaughlin On a day where Week 2 of the Farah Palmer Cup and Week 1 of the Mitre 10 Cup kicked off in a double header at North[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 28 August
Sport and Politics do mix, and here are a couple of examples of it. A powerful statement from the Washington Mystics. And here is an iconic image from the trial[…]
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All about (saving) the money…
By Andrew McGoff As the COVID-19 pandemic went global, our favourite sporting codes slowly started to suspend their leagues. Whilst sport is considered a religion to some, or more important[…]
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The Doha Disaster
By Aiden McLaughlin ‘We witnessed the greatest number of athletes, the highest level of performances and largest stadium audiences ever seen across the event’s 16 editions.’ Lord Sebastian Coe, IAAF[…]
NZR Badly Wrong and Need a Re-Think
By The Spotter (Wrote this a little while back, but then the cricket got amazing…) I do actually quite like Steve Hansen, but unfortunately he drove off a cliff in his own team bus recently in the[…]
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“Support Women’s Sport Basin Reserve”
By Harbour Heather Angry about the potential renaming of the Basin Reserve? Good, that’s the point. You know what I’m angry about? The fact that when a photo of Tayla[…]
Holding Out For A Hero
By Aiden McLaughlin ‘I want to be the best. I don’t want to be the best of my gender, I want to be the best in the league.‘ In a[…]
