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Professional athletes seldom engage in long-range planning and can be somewhat ephemeral when it comes to decision-making. A couple of prime examples that come to mind are the ill-fated decision by GOAT NBA player Michael Jordan to switch codes to baseball and the attempt by rugby player and Dally M medal winner Jarryd Hayne trying … Keep Reading “Taumalolo Unclear Over Potential Future International Rugby Plans”

The question making the rounds, now, and at other times, is whether New Zealand rugby selectors should relax the criteria for inclusion on the All Blacks squad to accommodate Kiwi players who have gone off in search of the riches Europe offers. It has been over 20 years since the game turned professional, yet New … Keep Reading “All Blacks Refuse to Bend Selection Rules to Accommodate Defectors”

Some Kiwi soccer players might be on the move and it would seem that money is involved, if it was necessary to say that. All Whites striker Jeremy Brockie appears poised to move from Pretoria-based football club SuperSport United to another club right across town, the Mamelodi Sundowns. According to Soccer Laduma, the 30-year-old native … Keep Reading “Kiwi Soccer Players Chase Glory with Moves Near and Far”

Clarity is often in short supply for athletes at times. They seem to want to live on the field forever and it often takes quite an effort to get some of them to call time when it is patently obvious that their skills are no longer equal to the task. Such was not the case … Keep Reading “Liam Malone Calls Time on Athletic Career at Tender Age of 24”

Cowabunga, dudes! The sport of surfing has lost its Kumbaya vibe as it has moved from a fringe activity to a free-for-all atmosphere where manners and protocol as disappearing quicker than etiquette at an Australian cricket match. If surfing were not inherently dangerous enough, due to such issues as an ocean that routinely kills, razor-sharp … Keep Reading “Surfing Growing Pains in Raglan Include Injuries and Bad Form”

Big time tennis in Auckland is going on, but the women’s side will have to go on without defending champion Lauren Davis, as she was knocked out in the first round by another American Sachia Vickery. It was a short defense at Stanley Street for Davis, as she was dispatched 1- 6, 2 – 6 … Keep Reading “ASB Classic Not Kind to Defending Champion Lauren Davis”

Jarryd Hayne recently popped onto our radar as he prepares to get ready for the 2018 Telstra NRL Rugby Premiership competition and the March launch of the new season. He got an early holiday gift, he did, escaping the Gold Coast Titans to rejoin his old club, the Parramatta Eels. Hayne had to take a … Keep Reading “Hayne Putting NRL Offseason to Good Use After Rejoining Eels”

New Zealand Heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker has some big plans for 2018. He would like to fight Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder and Tony Bellew. That is how it would happen if he were to realise his dream schedule. Parker’s reps are engaged in some serious negotiations for their WBO world champion, trying to arrange a … Keep Reading “Kiwi Heavyweight Parker Has Massive Agenda for 2018”

Kiwis with a keen sense of adventure might want to take advantage of an opportunity to do some scuba diving on an active volcano, which, it would seem, might fall squarely into the adventure of a lifetime category. There is something for everyone, everyone who has the proper credentials, that is. There is a variety … Keep Reading “Sport Diving on Active New Zealand Volcano”

Jarryd Hayne has been accused of raping a woman while he was in the U.S. trying to catch hold with the San Francisco 49ers. Hayne has denied the allegations, unequivocally and vehemently. Here is the thing. The accuser gets to remain anonymous, which just seems plain wrong. In the U.S. there is a document called … Keep Reading “Anonymous Hayne Accuser Surfaces More than a Year after Hayne Leaves U.S.”