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Rugby: Tietjens eyes fringe All Blacks for Games defence

Crusader squad members with Pacific and Maori heritage

All Blacks: Kahui, Muliaina add to midfield woes

Richard Kahui and Mils Muliaina are the latest casualties in a list of players unable to front for New Zealand's first test of the season.

Rugby great in race row

NZ's top rugby boss has cast doubt on Andy Haden's role as a World Cup ambassador after the All Black great said the Crusaders franchise had a maximum quota for "darkies".

Govt refuses to join Maori rugby apology

PM John Key says an apology to Maori rugby players excluded from All Blacks tours to South Africa is a matter between unions.

Rugby: Henry and provinces court Sonny Bill's agent

No one is certain what Sonny Bill Williams' sporting intentions are although it seems he is keen on persevering with his rugby career.

All Blacks: Three-test series tour begins with Ireland

Top 10-ranked rugby nations Scotland and Fiji will not make another tour of NZ until at least the next decade.

Rugby: NZRU makes offer to Sonny Bill

The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) has made a formal offer to lure former rugby league star Sonny Bill Williams home.

Rugby: Powerful NZ Maori team in the offing

<i>Wynne Gray:</i> Murky questions - but few answers

Apology just proves NZRU had no spine, says critic

Maori rugby apology 'a complex issue' - Tew

Rugby officials hope their apology will consign a sorry chapter in New Zealand-South African relations to the history books.

Sharples criticises NZRU Maori for not backing apology

Pita Sharples has criticised the NZRU's Maori appointees for advising against the union's apology today for past treatment of Maori players.

Legends welcome apology to Maori rugby

Two prominent Maori former All Blacks have welcomed NZRU's apology to Maori players, but one player from the 60s says the scars will never heal.

NZRU: Statement of Apology

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> I'll spell it for you, NZRU: S-O-R-R-Y

<i>Chris Rattue:</i> Signing a win for failing Warriors

Hail the Warriors - but our befuddled league club should think again before getting too smug.

Lauaki charged wtih careless driving