Unless you’re a proud member of the Beige Brigade or a high school cricket coach you may not have heard about the Kiwi cricket smartphone app knocking the world for six. Kiwi smartphone app CricHQ, co-founded by former Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming, is forecast to overtake popular website TradeMe in the number of online [...]

New Zealand’s largest ever Olympic rowing contingent – including some of our strongest medal hopefuls – departs for Europe on Friday. Twenty-two Olympic-qualified rowers will leave for Lucerne, Switzerland, where they will join the New Zealand men’s eight, light-weight four, and heavy-weight four crews, who left two weeks ago. The eight and light-weight-four crews are [...]

The smoke has cleared after a successful opening morning of the duck shooting season, but for some a headache still lingers. Shooter Matt Hood says he was shooting on an irrigation pond he knew rangers would check because he had seen them there the week before. “[The fish and game rangers] were quite pleasant. I [...]

Champion swimmer and AUT University student Cameron Leslie broke his own world record at a recent Paralympics qualifying event in Sheffield, England. In the 150m individual race, the 22-year-old, who was born with quadruple limb deficiency, beat the record he set at the 2008 Paralympics by three seconds. His record now stands at 2m 30.78s. [...]

Two lucky Auckland children will pack their bags for Thailand this September to train in martial arts with a kung fu master. The Sir Gee Dorr Kung Fu Club in Mt Albert, run by Charlie Tamati, is applying for funding from sports foundations to take two young students — yet to be named — with [...]

The death of a shooter last year has prompted calls for extra care during this year’s duck shooting season. The crack of gunshots will ring out around the countryside on Saturday morning, officially opening the season for 2012. Mike Spray, manager for the Mountain Safety Council, says every season there are incidents which result in [...]

Kiwi paddleboarder Annabel Anderson has become a world class athlete in the space of four years, following a decision to ditch the security of a comfortable job for a “life of adventures”. Her passion for Stand-Up-Paddleboarding (SUP) was sparked in 2009 while she was working as an account director in London. She was soon recognised [...]

An over-supply of physical education teachers means graduates are finding it difficult to find jobs. Jane Foster, who graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Physical Education, has applied for more than 20 PE teaching vacancies and has not had any interviews. “When I went into studying PE teaching, I was fully [...]

It’s not every day an Olympic swimmer looks over his shoulder to see his mum hot on his tail. But Bronwen Burmester, 56, followed her son Moss in the 2.8km King of the Bays swim from Milford to Takapuna Beach last week. They finished together at 56m 48s, placing them at 587th and 588th and [...]