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Murray Stott: Govt, Team NZ badly missed boat
There was no visible Plan B; only a Plan A predicated on a win, writes Murray Stott. This, one can understand. However, any good business model would have had a Plan B.
Dylan Cleaver: Quite probable Dalts will return
Dylan Cleaver places little or no stock on Grant Dalton's weary resignation that he does not have another America's Cup campaign left in him.
Andrew Alderson: Govt funding an election winner
Investing in the America's Cup is a bona fide vote winner and can be justified as an investment in economic development, writes Andrew Alderson.
David Leggat: Reaction to Cup defeat a test of our maturity
The coming days, possibly weeks, will provide a good test of the maturity of New Zealand the sporting nation.
Dana Johannsen: Heart-stopping moment signals start of real sailing
The old yachting romantics told me there's nothing like the first leg of the first race of the America's Cup.
Paul Thomas: Wrong again, but life will carry on after the loss
Don't be unduly surprised if next Saturday night at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, the All Blacks are upstaged by 95-year-old Nelson Mandela kitted out in a Springbok jersey and reprising his 1995 World Cup final gig.
Open letter to Team NZ from President of the Olympic Committee
New Zealand Olympic Committee chief Mike Stanley has written an open letter expressing his pride in Team NZ.
Willy Leferink: 100% Pure little to do with who we are
Wouldn't it be great if New Zealand was a brand just like a Mars Bar?
Punters: If Oracle win we'll cash in
Kiwi punters have jumped ship and are backing Oracle to win the America's Cup.
Paul Lewis: Ill wind keeps NZ short of vital win
My daughters sang this when they were small and "it just goes on and on, my friends", just like the 34th America's Cup.
Wynne Gray: Plenty of sound and fury - but most of it coming from my household
Variations on the "Are they racing?" inquiry infested my household at the weekend.
Off-water attitudes lack taste
A Kiwi-cringe factor has encroached on what has been an outstanding sporting contest at the America's Cup.
John Roughan: What will we do with our Cup?
Match point can be the hardest to win. Anticipation makes some players choke, drop serve, let a tough competitor back into the match. Dean Barker's demeanour says he is not a choker.
Dana Johannsen: Ins and outs of port entry to the starting box
Thanks to America's Cup fever, the whole nation has now heard of "port entry advantage". But some may be wondering why it never seems to go our way.
Paul Lewis: Press conferences set to keep winners and losers apart
It's a sad thing when rivalry in sport spills over so much that teams can't sit in the same room together.
Paul Lewis: All eyes on Zuckerberg's $1.6m luxury renovations
All the talk in New Zealand is of the "ninjas" who flag-bombed Larry Ellison's house in San Francisco.
Costly and controversial event turns locals off
There are diehard yachting fans that have been following all the action and a few sceptics that have been converted, but by and large the locals seem ambivalent.
Paul Lewis: San Fran to farewell great master of sound
San Francisco's St Francis Yacht Club - the one Larry Ellison didn't select as the Cup defender - has just lost a sailor whose life was devoted to eliminating noise.
America's Cup: 'Dalton clause' warning over f-bomb tweet
When Russell Coutts promised to deliver an America's Cup regatta that would appeal to the "Facebook generation" rather than the "Flintstones generation".
Andrew Carline: Coutts has done sailing a great favour
A friend of mine recounted a story to me a few years ago - he was hosting an American company executive for a few days and had decided to take him to a one-day cricket international at Eden Park.
Paul Lewis: Steely Team NZ show how to bounce back from the brink and do the business
It was like being in a car crash. It all happens very, very fast. You see it all very, very slow.
Herald on Sunday editorial: Dare we consider the next?
Who would have believed little more than a week ago the racing could be so good? The idea of catamarans hurtling around a short harbour course was far removed from the stately ocean sailing that characterised the America's Cup for so long.
Paul Lewis: Schiller's sense of entitlement stinks
So Larry Ellison and a group of high-powered businessmen want to turn the America's Cup into a yearly World Series of sailing, with the winner challenging for cash and something else... oh yes, the America's Cup.
White flag a morale boost for Kiwis
While many in NZ celebrated yesterday's win, Team NZ skipper Dean Barker had a typically cautious response to Oracle's predicament - "We've still got a lot of races to win."