The walking dead have joined specialist Ebola biohazard teams, superheroes and chain gangs as crowds arrive for the Wellington Sevens.

DJ Forbes will play his ninth sevens tournament in Wellington today, and next year's edition could be his last.

Murphy Taramai spent last year's Sevens Wellington tournament in the crowd dressed as a member of the band OutKast.

New Zealand sevens coach Gordon Tietjens has a habit of picking players to debut at the Wellington leg of the international series and this year could be no different.

If you watched last month's Women's World Series Sevens Cup final, you'd have seen a small, dangerously fit, skilful NZ player tearing about the field like a whippet.

Auckland carry winning form into today's national provincial sevens tournament in Rotorua as they seek to go one better than in 2014.

When Auckland sevens player Brittany Coates went to Fiji's Coral Coast Sevens, her focus was on doing as well as she could for her New Zealand Raiders side.

New Zealand women’s sevens coach Sean Horan has had to summon some fresh talent for his squad to head to Dubai for the first of six tournaments in the world series.

Dana Johannsen writes: New Zealand's biggest costume party of the year appears to be in danger of losing its billing.

Shall we talk about misogyny and its starring role in the test match build up this week? Nah, best not. Best we just avoid the subject altogether.

New Zealand have been knocked out of the Gold Coast Sevens tournament at the quarterfinal stage, losing 24-7 to England today.

Sonny Bill Williams will be able to go on the All Blacks end of year tour without having played any ITM Cup rugby.

The Olympic eligibility loophole that allows players to swap nations may be closed to heavier athletes and any others the IRB arbitrarily decide are not genuine candidates to play sevens at Rio.

The sights and sounds of our national rugby teams struggling in defeat are rare but well worth the wait for those who like to study the innuendo style of excuse-making.

Rugby sevens is the most popular Commonwealth Games event with Kiwi viewers so far.

Gordon Tietjens does not plan to return for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast as the long-serving New Zealand coach prepares for his retirement.

It says something about this loss that, despite New Zealand winning three gold medals today, the most significant story from today's action is a silver.

Ibrox Stadium is more used to Old Firm derbies than rugby sevens.

Times have changed since Sir Gordon "Titch" Tietjens booked three motel rooms for his New Zealand sevens team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.