Category: Sport

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The Princess’s Gambit

Let me first say that today was a mental health day. It was a time for unwinding, recharging, resting, reading and distancing myself from routines. I still had the final episode of the Netflix...

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The Ceiling of the World

Mountaineering has always held great appeal to me. As a New Zealander, I grew up hearing of the feats of the late Sir Edmund Hillary and later those of the great Tyrolean – Reinhold...

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All-Time Top 10: World Cup Moments

I must say the timing of the World Cup in Brazil is impeccable. It will fill up these last weeks of June nicely as I prepare for the big move. Once the kids were...

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Run For Your Life

I love to run but I have no desire to run a Marathon. Why is that? What separates those of us that are happy to do ten kilometres or less with those that just...

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The Real Reds

If you do not like sport, please avert your eyes… In The Rugby Blanket I wrote about the ending of a ‘quarter of a century’ long curse. But that’s not exactly right. It was...

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Half Price Sale

So the Autumn internationals are almost over and I can get back to the business of writing about …well writing. This series always throws up some interesting results and the All Blacks usually struggle...

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K.D. Muir’s Sports Quiz

So what did we learn from this sporting week? Kiwis still can’t play soccer – There might be as many Kiwi kids playing soccer as rugby but there is no clear path to a...

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Farewell Fats

The Autumn Internationals are well and truly underway which means we will soon be treated to a month of rugby before the All Blacks take a well-earned break over the summer. This time also...

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All-Time Top 10: Sporting Chokes

See what I did there. I published this before I have to add possibly the biggest sporting choke of all time to the number one position. The event in question is due to occur...

The National Game 3

The National Game

‘Weeeeee are the Champions my Friends!!!’ sung the late great Freddie Mercury. Actually that’s not a song I can sing right now.  All of my teams, excluding the All Blacks, are not quite there....