"Where are the names of the clubs? Where are the names of the players? Where are the names of the criminal suppliers?" asks Dana Johannsen.

Call it a hunch. Then again, call it the obvious after looking through the team lists and history books, writes Chris Rattue.

It's upon us. The tour we've been waiting all summer for. Finally, we're hosting a decent international team who also have English as their first language.

Gee whiz. The Sonny Bill Williams fight turned out to be a bit dodgy, like nobody knew that his boxing career was a crock of you know what in the first place.

World anti-doping agency director-general David Howman admits it - they are never going to catch everyone who uses peptides.

Ali Williams and the Blues captaincy did not seem a natural fit during large chunks of his career.

The scale of sport's latest disaster is so immense it is hard to take in.

In between sweet sips of Jack Daniel's, I glanced out through the windows to see if I could tell anything from Taylor's body language, writes Jeremy Wells.

The Wellington sevens tournament has been hit by a lot of negative publicity this year and the worst is yet to come, writes Chris Rattue.

That's what happens when you promote sport as out-and-out entertainment. Let's all dress up like silly buggers, drink far too much, dance to the music, mostly ignore the Wellington sevens and behave like naughty children.

India's long-held antipathy to the Decision Review System has once more scuppered a plan under which its use could have increased in test cricket.

It's coming up sevens weekend in Wellington, which can mean only one thing: time to dress up and get inebriated, writes Dana Johannsen.

At least Morgan knows there are some fans, which is more than can be said for rugby, which still operates like a masonic lodge, writes Chris Rattue.

There's little point in continuing to condemn Victoria Azarenka for her suspicious time out in the Australian Open semifinal against American Sloane Stephens.

As New Zealand suns itself in the glow of the first one-day cricket series win in South Africa, it might be time to consider Nathan McCullum's role against England.

Of all the worrying signs around the current Phoenix malaise, the greatest concern must be their lack of fight and determination when things go wrong.

Football fans might wonder if they are in the category of vermin after Gareth Morgan's outrageous outburst on Radio Sport, writes Michael Brown.

Clearly overseas cricket stars have a penchant for fine automobiles but how about our own national stars. Jeremy Wells investigates.

I'm still waiting for my blood to boil about Lance Armstrong, but it just ain't happening, writes Chris Rattue. There are, I think, too many far more important issues to be incensed about.

There's a new case study coming for the public relations text books and for all sports bodies and sportspeople - the rehabilitation of Lance Armstrong, says Paul Lewis.