Two 11-year-old rugby players were taken to hospital after tackling a bigger boy in Takaka today. One player had minor neck damage and the other was concussed.

A young rugby player has died after being critically injured during a rugby game in Whangarei yesterday.

A talented teen was in an induced coma with a suspected brain bleed last night after being critically injured during a rugby game.

A schoolboy football player and a referee are in hot water over a testy exchange that allegedly involved spitting and forced a match to be abandoned.

If you follow the sport of trampoline, you will have heard of King's College student Dylan Schmidt.

Not many 16-year-olds can say they have been to two World Cups in the same year.

The 16-year-old, year 11, St Cuthbert's student is thriving in the exacting sport of heptathlon, and can now dream about the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Zion Ioka has his life mapped out away from the sporting field.

Taniela "Daniel" Tupou, the 18-year-old Sacred Heart College 1st XV star, in action against Mount Albert Grammar School.

A 135kg schoolboy whose exceptional rugby skills have made him a YouTube sensation has been inundated with interest from rugby and league clubs.

Westlake Boys' High, Rosmini College and Massey High School again shape as the front runners of the North Harbour premier First XV competition.

Some juicy match-ups highlight today's opening round of the Auckland 1A First XV season.

Mt Albert Grammar School is well known for excelling in team sports such as softball, cricket, rugby and soccer.

'Anything is possible' forms part of Bairds Mainfreight Primary School's mantra in Otara. That's what happened when the school's first XI won the Auckland 6B grade last weekend.

Long jump records have a habit of taking years to fall.

Tennis Northern have come under fire after withdrawing their teams from this month's national junior teams event and some parents and clubs in the region are upset.

The 400m is one of the toughest sprints in athletics. It is close to a minute of gut-busting endeavour, pushing your whole body to the limit at top speed.

Auckland's top tennis school has taken the unprecedented action of withdrawing its top boys and girls teams from the secondary school competition.

When you are in the zone, you need to cash in.

With a league-loving family and a father who coaches the 13-man game, Giovanni Mountain-Silbery once had his heart set on a career in the NRL.

Bystanders at the recent Counties Manukau Secondary Schools tennis champs could have been forgiven for whispering "I didn't even know Manurewa High School played tennis!".

The Hakeais are a couple of hard-case sisters. But don't mistake those big smiles for soft attitudes.

A stellar 2013 for Sacred Heart College water polo was capped off with victory for the second year straight in the transtasman water polo championships in Canberra.

Remember the name Dan Hoy. He's just 15 and starting out Year 11 at Westlake Boys' High School.

After years of seemingly being forced to take a back seat as New Zealand's field events athletes have hogged the headlines.

Fa'amausili and Salt rewarded for their outstanding success with sports awards.

Not without a good deal of confusion, MAGS claimed the Auckland premier cricket two-day championship for the first time in 35 years despite losing their last game of the year.