7 - The Highlanders have lost their opening seven games of the Super Rugby season. Despite a big off-season recruitment drive, the southern men have struggled this year and have a tough ask ahead of them tomorrow (sat) as they look for their first win when they meet the Crusaders in Christchurch.
96.8 - The Northern Mystics may have lost their opening four games of this year's ANZ Championship but they can't blame shooter Cathrine Latu. The Silver Fern has drained 122 of her 126 attempts at goal, good for a success rate of 96.8 per cent. The winless Mystics host the Central Pulse in Auckland on Sunday.
9 - All Whites striker Chris Wood ended a nine-match goal-scoring drought when he converted from the penalty spot for Leicester City in a 3-2 win over Bolton Wanderers in the English Championship this week. Wood had gone seven weeks without finding the back of the net but he helped the Foxes move to sixth place on the Championship table.
908 - Sticking with football and Kiwi attacking midfielder Marco Rojas received 908 votes from his fellow A-League players as he was awarded the Johnny Warren Medal on Monday night as the competition's player of the season. Rojas fended off Italian maestro Alessandro Del Piero who finished second with 449 votes.
42 - On Jackie Robinson Day, in which every Major League Baseball player wears the retired No 42 to honour the player who broke the sport's colour barrier, the New York Yankees paid particular tribute in a 4-2 win. Robinson Cano, named after Jackie, hit a home run and Mariano Rivera, the only player allowed to wear No 42 every day, earned the save.
3 - There could be three New Zealanders on the UFC 160 card in Las Vegas next month after Dylan Andrews put his hand up to be involved in the event. If Andrews, who won his first UFC fight last weekend, does make the card, he would join fellow Kiwis Mark Hunt and James Te Huna.