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Editorial: No merit in confession
Sometimes, a confession dressed up with an apology is worthless. If the activity for which it is being made is both serious and sustained, it can have no merit.
Sometimes, a confession dressed up with an apology is worthless. If the activity for which it is being made is both serious and sustained, it can have no merit.
I had intended to avoid the subject of Lance Armstrong in this column, writes Dana Johannsen. But, like most of us, I've been sucked into the hype generated by the Oprah machine.
Lets get ready to rumble. Oprah versus Lance Armstrong is shaping up as the first big sporting battle of the year, writes Chris Rattue.
Chris Rattue writes: "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, Mike, involves returning Ross Taylor to the test captaincy for the three-test series against England."
Good old Shane Warne. Just when you think he can't look any more naff, he goes and throws a spectacular tanty during a Big Bash League match.
Life is not fair for Chris Martin. He has been a trouper for New Zealand cricket and deserves better treatment than he is currently getting.
APNZ's Michael Brown looks at the impact a reported Ryan Nelsen retirement would have on the All Whites.
'How can NZ change South Africa's perception of what they're going to face in Port Elizabeth?' asks David Leggat. There's only one way and it's going to require a massive shift in quality of performance and testing their hosts through five days.
Ross Taylor's struggle with the great tragedy that has befallen his terrible life is becoming one of the turgid bores in the history of NZ sport, writes Chris Rattue.
Random sports things that 2013 will hopefully bring... from the realistic to the mainly hopelessly impossible.
The proliferation of new caps in the New Zealand-South Africa Twenty20 series raises the issue of using international sport as a mere development tool.
Big Steve Hansen scraped off the jolly image makeover and turned into Bad Santa by delivering another low blow to Robbie Deans, writes Chris Rattue.
They have the award that counts - a Super Rugby trophy - but the Chiefs and their coach Dave Rennie failed to win over the New Zealand Rugby Awards judges.
New Zealand's best cricketer has gone on strike in an attempt to get the coach he doesn't trust sacked, says Chris Rattue.
Ross Taylor should have taken a deep breath, let the #!@# land elsewhere where it belonged, and joined the NZ side on this tour to South Africa, writes Chris Rattue.