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Rugby: Herculean Tech effort in defence saluted

Napier Technical coach Chris Halas was quick to toast his team's improvement after they won Hawke's Bay's Jack Swain Cup premier reserve

Football: Keepers' contrasting tales

If the lynch mob at Park Island was looking for a scapegoat they didn't have to look far because Blues goalkeeper Ruben Parker Hanks

Football: Stop Out stun Rovers

The word is the Greeks are smashing plates in Wellington as Stop Out out thought Napier City Rovers 5-3 in Napier today. In a game

Green Machine

Napier Old Boys Marist take out the Maddison Trophy

Saracens beaten again

The Hawke's Bay Saracens were beaten 19-3 by Taranaki in a pre-season rugby fixture in Hawera today. The Saracens led 3-0 at halftime

Rugby: Time for talk over in HB club final

TARADALE flanker Kaleb Whakataka is the first to admit he fell into the trap and let emotions get the better of him in his last outing

Bodybuilding: Lifeguard's billboard for life

AS Horowai Puketapu shuffles on a dining chair of his Napier home, the ta moko on his left arm peeps out from under the long sleeve

Yesteryear muso who gives a damn

IRONICALLY golf-loving John Hanlon almost comes across as a "shark" in the game of life. The 76-year-old Aucklander is the embodiment

Opinion: Wrong flag, deplorable slur - it's never dull

WHEN I started journalism post-university as someone almost qualified to teach secondary schoolers, I went through myriad emotions. It

Netball: Huias must stick to script

When it comes to skills, it's a given that all the players in tonight's Super 6 netball semifinals are suitably qualified to take

Netball: Semifinal suits Outkast

It's never easy returning from a hiatus in sport, even if it's just a season, because one can never underplay the value of familiarity. Consequently

Change for Tararua Sports Awards

There will be no Tararua sports awards this year as the event moves to become biennial, with the next one in 2018. Over the past 16

Boxing: Duo take top medals

Two young Central Hawke's Bay boxers are making their mark on the national stage, returning from the national championships in Rotorua

Golf: Musician tees up code

Asians and Maori are propping up amateur golf in New Zealand, says former multiple award-winning musician John Hanlon. "I'm half

Rugby: Family pride on the line

If you thought Polson Banner rugby fixtures were just about on-field battles between the Napier and Palmerston North Boys' High Schools'

Rugby: Banner match always a crunch

Expect Warwick Holmes to cop a bit of flak when former Napier Boys' High School 1st XV rugby players gather for a pre-Polson Banner

Netball: Court up in the action

The aim is to stage the biggest social netball event in the country and Hawke's Bay Netball has recruited two heavyweights in the

Netball: Van Dyk sees silver lining in Aussie exit

Former New Zealand international Irene van Dyk says the Australian exodus from the Transtasman Championship is perhaps a blessing