Emirates Team New Zealand has not just left the building – they’ve taken it with them. The team’s Wynyard Quarter base, home for the past three years, has been packed into more than 70 40-foot containers and is on the way to San Francisco, courtesy of team sponsor Maersk Line
The Emirates Team New Zealand yard now resembles the port of Auckland with containers coming and going and endlessly being filled. The work is non stop right now in the rush to get the base packed and on a ship to San Francisco.
The Super 15 is arguably providing as many headaches as answers for All Blacks head coach and selector Steve Hansen. The Herald rugby desk has been charged with putting themselves in Hansen's shoes and coming up with answers to some of the some of the season's curliest questions.
Is this the worst 15 seconds of football that the world has ever seen? You be the judge. Video / Youtube: RebellionFC
A Brazilian footballer produces one of the worst penalty kicks you are likely to ever see. Video / Youtube: CAMFWAYNE6
New Zealand Herald rugby writers Gregor Paul & Wynne Gray discuss the outcome of the Crusaders vs Force match in Perth.
A Newcastle football fan was caught on tape punching a police horse after his team's 3-0 loss to rivals Sunderland on Sunday.
New Zealand side Auckland City have beaten New Caledonia's Mont-Dore 12-2 at Kiwitea Street in Auckland, New Zealand, in Group B on day three of the OFC Champions League. Courtesy: OFC
All five nominees for the Surfline Men's Best Overall Performance Award are presented for your review. Featuring Grant "Twiggy" Baker, Kohl Christensen, Shane Dorian, Mark Healey and Greg Long. (Note: Depicted rides are symbolic -- award is for best overall performance over twelve month period.) A category in the 2013 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Pacifico, coming May 3. For more info see the event website at www.BillabongXXL.com.
Rongomai Primary School was treated to a special breakfast with the Blues. Kids Kai Time provides a breakfast service for low decile schools, Michelle McArthur who started the initiative 'Kids Kai Time' is driven to provide children with a nutritional breakfast and lunch, and to also teach the children about oral hygiene and the values if nutritional food.
Stade Francais halfback Jerome Fillol was banned for 14 weeks overnight for spitting in the face of Bath counterpart Peter Stringer. Courtesy: rugbydump.com
Rugby experts Gregor Paul, Wynne Gray & Patrick McKendry discuss who they think will make it into the All Blacks squad.
After failing to score form a corner, a goalkeeper races back to goal in a very innovative fashion. Video / Youtube: Multi Schlott.
Pukekohe Park Raceway – the country’s spiritual home of motorsport celebrates 50 years of motorsport. courtesy of OfficialV8Supercars
Kevin Barry is back working with New Zealand's top heavyweight boxing prospect. Barry, an Olympic silver medallist in Los Angeles in 1984, will train Joseph Parker for his June fight against South African veteran Francois Botha. The pair will depart for Barry's Las Vegas base on Sunday for an eight-week pre-fight camp.
All Black coach Steve Hansen has announced a contract extension that will see him lead the side through to 2015 Rugby World Cup. As reported in the Herald on Sunday, the New Zealand Rugby Union agreed at their March board meeting to back Hansen as the man to deliver their stated goal of winning back-to-back World Cups.
No rest for teams in the V8 Supercars with cars and equipment which raced in Tasmania last weekend now on the way to New Zealand. The back-to-back race weekends can be stretch, but for the likes of IRWIN Racing's Lee Holdsworth a positive result in across Bass has him looking forward to now racing on the other side of the the ditch.
New Zealand Herald rugby writers Gregor Paul & Wynne Gray this week discuss the TMO, are they an intrusion or an asset to the game. They also give their expert opinion and analysis after round 8 of the Super Rugby competition.
Tahitian team Dragon have defeated New Caledonia's Mont-Dore 4-1 in the second round of the OFC Champions League at Stade Numa Daly in Noumea, New Caledonia. Courtesy: OFC
Auckland City have beaten fellow New Zealand team Waitakere United 3-1 in the second round of the OFC Champions League at Fred Taylor Park in Auckland. Courtesy: OFC
Francois Botha has called him a "baby" but Joseph Parker knows his older opponent will be anything but paternal when they meet in the ring in June. In fact, Parker will be taking extra care to avoid some of the tricks that so rattled Sonny Bill Williams in Brisbane in February.
Fisherman Rolf Nylinder is from Sweden and bought a 30 dollar guitar during a trip visiting New Zealand, His friend Peter had a Mac with "Garageband". So obviously he felt compelled to rewrite a song (apologies to Leonard Cohen) to spread the word about true fly fishing! frontsidefly.com
Herald cricket scribes David Leggat and Andrew Alderson discuss the players who have made it into the test side against England.
The two men accused of assaulting star cricketer Jesse Ryder have appeared in court this morning. The pair, aged 20 and 37 and both from Christchurch, appeared in the dock at Christchurch District Court at the post-earthquake temporary Nga Hau e Wha Marae venue. The 37-year-old has been charged with assaulting Jesse Daniel Ryder and also with reckless disregard for the safety of others. The younger man, believed to be his nephew, is facing two charges of assault, one in connection with the older man.
The V8 Supercars head across Bass Strait this weekend for the second round of this year's series. IRWIN Racing's Lee Holdsworth is looking forward to Symmons Plains and a split-race format which will feature a half-time period much like a football match.
Jamie Whincup takes motorsport writer Eric Thompson for a hot lap of the new Pukekohe Park Raceway in his Holden V8 Supercar – and bins it through the esses.
Top Herald rugby scribes Wynne Gray and Gregor Paul discuss Richard Kahui's departure to Japan, and whether they should be included in the super 15 competition.
Golf carts haven't changed much over the years. They look and feel the same. What if there was a way to improve the traditional golf cart concept and take away some of the limitations? That is what Bubba Watson and Oakley set out to do. They created the world's first hovercraft golf cart. Using hovercraft technology, the BW1 is able to glide over any terrain, including grass, sand, and water. Courtesy: YouTube/BubbasHover
Rickie Lambert spoke of his ambition to represent New Zealand in international football, after learning that he could qualify to play for the All Whites through his grandfather -- however, the new was later revealed to be part of an April Fools' Day joke by Southampton Football Club! Courtesy: YouTube/theofficialsaints
Two old men, both in their 90s, risked comfortable senior-citizen status as well as brittle hamstrings to stage a 100-meter race at a track meet in San Sebastian, Spain. Video / Youtube: Proactive Technolabs
Police hunting who attacked Jesse Ryder outside a Christchurch bar say they don't yet know who is behind the vicious assault but are working along "positive lines of inquiry''. The cricketer is in an induced coma in Christchurch Hospital with critical injuries - including a fractured skull and a punctured lung - after an "unprovoked'' bar attack.
Prime Minister John Key comments on discussions with Tiwai Point aluminium smelter's ultimate owners Rio Tinto and a bid to broker a deal, the attack on Black Cap Jesse Ryder, relief for the drought stricken farmers; and finally the 'golden handshake' for Solid Energy's Don Elder.
Blues coach Sir John Kirwan has made just one injury-enforced change to the starting XV for Saturday's match against the Chiefs in Mount Maunganui. "We need to get excited again and start playing high tempo, high impact game which we have not be doing."