WIND the clock back to the East Coast North Island Secondary Schools athletics championships in Hastings in March last year. Back

From Saturday Central Districts Stag Joshua Clarkson will cease to be a teenager and will embark on a life of adulthood. But turning

Settling in Seattle is on Angie Petty's long-term agenda but that doesn't mean she is going to ease her stranglehold on the Sylvia

Like the impending drought in Hawke's Bay, everyone knows the rain is on the way but it's simply a matter of when that is the million-dollar

Others use him for inspiration at the shot put arena but what rocks Jacko Gill's boat? "I just love it. I just like to be strong

Auckland schoolgirl pole vaulter Olivia McTaggart, of Auckland, has eclipsed Eliza McCartney's 4.2m record at the annual Allan and

TITLE TIME: Hawke's Bay's Scott Bicknell on his way to victory in the open men's ski race yesterday. PHOTO/WARREN BUCKLANDSurf Lifesaving Scott

National SevensRotorua Don't be surprised if Hawke's Bay Magpies speedster Mason Emerson is a bolter when the next All Black Sevens

Nine goals, referee John Rowbury and his assistants copping raspberries from irate parochial fans, as well as coaches and players

Middle-distance runners Angie Petty and Alex Rowe lived up to their billing in Hastings today. Rio Olympian Petty (nee Smit) clocked

Only this time two years ago she was your typical Lycra-clad, washboard abs-packing, barefooted teenager on the podium, receiving

The ball's still white but it's a totally different beast, if you ask Central Districts Stags captain William Young. But, for what

INTERNATIONAL FLAVOUR: Englishman Ollie Jones gets one of his horses familiar with Elwood Park in the countdown to the Savile Cup

STRETCHED AND READY: Hayden Hann will be one of eight Hawke's Bay players making their National Sevens debuts this weekend. PHOTO/DUNCAN

Alex Rowe has been living a life of incrementals in the high-octane lanes of contention, as it were, and it's just fine. The Australian

If bad luck is some kind of cosmic lottery that things happen due to some numeric occurrence then it's fair to assume it'll be over

The fastest way to lose traction in sport is to lose touch with what's happening ... and that's well before the team runs on to the

Hastings racehorse owner John Flynn and his fellow connections in Thien Ly now have an anxious wait until next Wednesday before they

OKAY so Amanda Jamieson will be the first person to admit she has a split personality but please don't anyone go calling a shrink. That's

IN November, as I sat at the majestic clubhouse of Natadola Golf Course in Sigatoka, Fiji, after a forgettable but enjoyable nine

ELATED OPENER: Cornwall batsman Jacob Murdoch thanks his team's supporters after scoring his century yesterday. PHOTO/SUPPLIEDRiverbend

Eliza McCartney isn't going to plant, take off, swing up, extend, turn and fly away at the end of a pole just yet but the hottest

Rio Olympics shot putter Jacko Gill is returning to the Potts Classic in Hastings this Saturday and, again, will provide a superb

The game was played in good spirit but it was a refereeing decision that frustrated Hawke's Bay United, according to stand-in captain

South-westerlies dominating the country this summer will continue to deliver wind and cloud to large parts of the country today.

When it comes to bowling you can as ask one Stag to take stock of the final because he had all the "Ticks" in the boxes, as it were. Yep

SO where the hell were Tom Bruce and Ben Wheeler? If you didn't know then it hardly matters because, either way, the missing Black

It's the Bermuda Triangle of cricket, never mind how you look at it but a soul-searching exercise is pending to see how runs, wickets

Hawke's Bay Olympian Regan Gough recovered from a puncture to complete a treble of national cycling titles for the summer yesterday. Waipukurau's

A courageous solo effort propelled Wellingtonian Joe Cooper to a second national elite men's road race cycling title in Napier yesterday. "I