OWN CORRESPONDENT, Palmerston North | Saturday 11.00am. FORMER England prop Kevin Yates was sent off 10 minutes from the end but the Wellington Hurricanes clung on to beat the Cats 29-23 in Saturday’s Super 12 clash. Yates was ordered off in the 70th minute by Australian referee Wayne Erickson after he punched Cats hooker Leon […]
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Period pieces have dominated the Oscars for a decade, but this year the pattern might be broken. Mark Morris rates the nominees and wonders if time is up for history.
Feel-good movie Heel Against the Head has left a trail of debt and bad blood. Andrew Worsdale reports.
On Sunday the film world will turn towards Hollywood and this year’s Oscars. But you will search in vain for an award for overacting, and there’ll be no mention of the Best Performance By An Arse. Righting that wrong, Andrew Collins presents the Alternative Oscars.
THE West Indies have named an unchanged 13-man squad for the second and final test against Zimbabwe starting in Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday. On Monday, the Windies dragged themselves off the floor to score a remarkable 35-run victory in the inaugural test between the two sides. Zimbabwe, chasing a target of 99, were bowled out […]
Steve Outing In the days of yore (pre-Internet, that is), news media and corporations had clearly defined boundaries. Magazines and newspapers gave readers news and objective information. Companies tried to sell goods and services, and placed ads in magazines, newspapers and on TV as a way to sell more. Ah, life was simple then. The […]
A TRY in the first seconds of the game set up a 31-17 victory for the Auckland Blues against the New South Wales Waratahs at Eden Park on Friday. Troy Flavell at lock scored when the ball was driven up through Mark Robinson who had several unmarked players to feed for the try. Both sides […]
New evidence linking an alleged murderer to the NIA could damage South Africa’s post-apartheid intelligence services Paul Kirk and Jaspreet Kindra One of Richmond strongman Sifiso Nkabinde’s alleged assassins, who turned to become the prosecution’s star witness, has been in the pay of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and was in possession of sophisticated NIA […]
John Matshikiza With the Lid Off Lusaka looks sadly dilapidated these days. You can tell that no one really comes here because the huge, pompous international airport that was built in Kaunda’s heyday, shortly after independence in the 1960s, stands gaunt, faded and out of step with the times. The car park is the same […]