Whichever way you dice it, Colin Slade's inclusion in the All Black squad is unusual, one that rates with the selection of Isaia Toeava in 2005 as one of the more exotic choices by the panel.

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum this time - Charlie Ngatai, all 98kg of him, can't be let loose for a full provincial campaign.

Top premiership soccer club to perform flippant haka before its season-opening game this week, despite legal protests that it insults Maori.

Miracle makeovers are not on Auckland coach Mark Anscombe's mind ahead of tomorrow night's match against Canterbury at Eden Park.

All Black coach Graham Henry and his cohorts should be sacked. Enough is enough.