Netball: Steel hold their nerve to make Fever fans sick
The Steel have helped restore some pride for New Zealand netball with a dramatic win against the Fever at Dunedin's Edgar Centre yesterday.
The Steel have helped restore some pride for New Zealand netball with a dramatic win against the Fever at Dunedin's Edgar Centre yesterday.
Magic coach Julie Fitzgerald believes the poor strike rate of the Kiwi teams across the Tasman over the first six seasons of the ANZ Championship is a mental failing.
Netball bosses are assembled in Melbourne this week for the latest round of talkies about the future shape of the transtasman league.
The Magic have assumed the unlikely position atop the ANZ Championship ladder after surviving their first real test of the season.
As far as halftime entertainment goes, you couldn't get any more fitting than the "panic room'' radio station promotion during the Mystics' loss to the Pulse tonight.
By tomorrow night, the Magic could be top of the ANZ Championship with a 100 per cent record from their first three games. It wasn't meant to be like this.
A mid-week catch-up with Australian shooting legend Vicki Wilson has helped battling Mystics stars Cathrine Latu and Maria Tutaia repair their confidence.
Every week we want to take a step up from what was achieved the week before and most definitely this week coming up against the Mystics, we'll have to step up again.
Players, coaches and officials in the ANZ Championship will be subject to a more robust disciplinary procedures this year after a couple of high-profile incidents last season revealed inconsistencies in the way misconduct complaints are resolved.
The Central Pulse have been dealt some heart-breaking losses in their short history and the first game of this year's ANZ Championship was another frustrating instalment.
If there was a theme from the opening round of the transtasman netball league, it is the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Northern Mystics captain Maria Tutaia is resting much easier on the eve of the transtasman league season than this time last year.
There are few sports where male coaches are in the minority, let alone the sole figure on the sidelines with a 'Y' chromosome.
She is the piece of the puzzle the Mystics were desperately missing last season.
Anna Harrison's return to the transtasman netball league has been put on hold with the star defender to miss the Mystics' opening round match this weekend.
Laura Langman should solve the midcourt issues that plagued the Mystics last season.
On the eve of a new season, you are about to see a new Cathrine Latu.
Northern Mystics star Kayla Cullen refuses to give up hope of making the Silver Ferns for the Commonwealth Games as she battles back from a knee reconstruction.
The Silver Ferns have wrapped up their UK tour by outclassing England 'A' 67-44 in London.
It was a risky assignment for the Silver Ferns, writes Dana Johannsen.