Team training was its own reward last night.
Under Phase 2 — Prepare to Play — of New Zealand Rugby's Return to Rugby Requirements, 2019 grand finalists OBM and...
Hearing that Henry Maxwell had died, John Holms felt compelled to find an old programme and a photograph that conjured up warm memories of far-off times. Ol...
BASKETBALL
She is set to take a life-changing stride.
Olivia Tuipulotu-Collier has signed a two-year contract to play basketball for Central Wyoming College (CW...
Poverty Bay
POVERTY Bay moved a significant step closer to golfing normality yesterday with the first club competition under Alert Level 2.
A women’s s...
RUGBY
They’ve got the right people in place.
Reigning Poverty Bay premier club rugby champions Enterprise Cars OBM are a tight-knit bunch who — since the union ...
RUGBY
Sport and politics — more accurately, government — now mix on an hour-by-hour basis.
The key points in yesterday’s tweak-cum-clarification codified in th...
More tributes have been paid to former Maori All Black Henry Maxwell, who as a coach turned Pirates into a major force in Poverty Bay premier rugby, and who has...
The best gauge of a man’s significance is the value he adds to others’ quality of life and the esteem in which he is held by his family, his peers and even his ...
RUGBY
Things are now in motion.
With the move to Alert Level 2 possible next week, Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union chief executive Josh Willoughby confirmed th...
Central Football is in a “holding pattern” about giving advice on what players can do in Covid-19 Alert Level 2.
The game's administrators are hoping that Level...
THEY'VE gone 130 years without a break.
And as soon as New Zealand reaches Alert Level 2, Poverty Bay rugby will once more kick into gear under NZ Rugby Covid-1...
GOLF
POVERTY Bay has been ranked the No.32 golf course in the country on a points system set up by New Zealand Golf Magazine.
Courses ranked 40 to 31 were this ...
THANKS RUGBY PARK: The Park Store lolly section got plenty of patronage from this Waverley Street kid back in the day.
Located a block from Rugby Park, it w...
Former Gisborne City striker Colin Walker recalled a key moment in his football career when he learned of the death of Leeds United great Norman Hunter last wee...
THANKS RISING SUNS: “What’s something different we can do on a Saturday night?” bored friends of mine asked back in the 1990s.
“Go to the basketball,” I qui...
RUGBY
They do it all well out at Te Karaka.
GT Shearing Waikohu as a premier side play hard rugby. They are the flagship team for a club whose fans turn out in ...
Darts was back into full swing at another level (Alert Level 2) at Brezzn Darts Club Hall this week.
With New Zealand in lockdown mode for seven weeks due to t...
RUGBY
He’s been flanked by giants before.
And Brian Leach — the newly appointed head coach of East Coast Farm Vets YMP — appreciates the club’s 110-year history...
GOLF
A Gisborne golfer’s mission to return to single-figure handicap status has been accomplished without swinging a club in anger on the course.
The player tur...
Great institutions adapt and endure.
The Gisborne Boys' High School first 15 is such an institution — principal Andrew Turner has confirmed that traditional ru...
DISTRICT golf clubs are swinging into action for tomorrow's change to Alert Level 2 which allows players to tee off and enjoy a round in “non-bubble” groups.
Po...
The 10-person limit on gatherings in Alert Level 2 applies to all community sport, Sport New Zealand has confirmed.
That means May 30 is likely to be the earlie...
NETBALL
GISBORNE netballers should know some time next week when they will be able to take the courts to train and eventually play.
The change to Covid-19 Aler...
They can handle the media.
And Bailey Mackey, president of the Ngati Porou East Coast Rugby Union since 2018, and NPEC chief executive Cushla Tangaere-Manuel br...
THE region’s netballers cannot wait to get back out on the court.
They have fingers crossed for a swift transition from Covid-19 Alert Level 3 down to Level 2 a...
SURFING
THE district’s surfers will be waxing their boards and whetting their appetites for waves ahead of Tuesday’s switch to Alert Level 3 and the chance to ...
THANKS KIDS: The father wandered away from the rest of the parents at a Riverbed Cricket Camp game in Hastings this year.
His son was batting and had 30 in his ...
IT is known as the greatest pass in World Cup history . . . by a panel of one.
And the commentary of the All Whites' second goal in their 1982 World Cup game ag...
THANKS COAST: The writing appeared to be drying on the wall.
Down 20-3 to Wanganui at halftime in the 2012 Heartland Championship Meads Cup final, it seemed...
IF absence makes the heart grow fonder, when we emerge on the other side of Covid-19, there will be bear hugs, sloppy kisses and waterfall tears at the reunion ...