COMMENT: Eddie Jones' magic wand will have run out of tricks by the time the next World Cup rolls around.

Last year representatives from World Rugby, NZ Rugby and AUT delivered the results of a study into the health of retired rugby players. Behind the united front, there were divisions.

Eddie Jones was right to call out Stephen Hoiles after his crass 'question'.

Elitism is slowly creeping into our national game, writes Dylan Cleaver

"First we'll have a couple of beers then we'll check out the birds." Never a truer word has been spoke as the Auckland Pigeon Racing Federation's season takes flight.

Sport's failure to act on the links between the sport and dementia has been called a "conspiracy".

Sad but true, it's time to fold for the Warriors and look for a new coach writes Dylan Cleaver.

If we believe the noise, funerals are now social commodities; the thing to be seen at; a veritable magnet for the great and the beautiful.

Jesse Ryder should be brought back into the fold.

Left arm bowler's omission from an under-performing New Zealand team is just plain weird, writes Dylan Cleaver.

COMMENT: Although holding match at Eden Park would please Kiwi fans, a London game would help raise more funds and attract bigger stars, writes Dylan Cleaver.

COMMENT: Is there a single football team that wears so comfortably the cloak of greatness as the All Blacks, asks Dylan Cleaver.

If he was named New Zealander of the Year again this year, you can guarantee his reaction will be the same.

Three matches left in the World Cup - and one exhibition game to decide third - and all will be whistled by men of the north.

It's blatantly obvious from the Rugby World Cup that officiating is more than a one-person job, writes Dylan Cleaver.

With the Bledisloe Cup on the line this weekend and the world netball champs starting in Sydney, Dylan Cleaver takes a good hard look across the ditch.

There's an acute shortage of affordable housing in Auckland and the government is on the lookout for parcels of land on the city fringe.

Dylan Cleaver thinks most sport opinion pieces are valueless, so he has written his own. Check out the Midweek Fixture for the best and worst of the week.

Unless things alter dramatically in Leeds, the Black Caps will be lucky to be invited back to England before the next arrival of Halley's Comet, writes Dylan Cleaver.

It is only right to recognise the Lord's test for what it was: an epic meltdown by the Black Caps, writes Dylan Cleaver.

NZ Rugby have a hefty constitution. The sort of constitution that, when you print it out, roll it up and Sellotape it, you could use to mug strangers in dark alleys.

Tell me if you've heard this before: Richie McCaw is looking old, the Crusaders are on the wane, Dan Carter is a shadow of his former self?

Hope and expectation can be cruel companions for NZ cricket fans.

Life can get pretty tough when you're a talisman and you're having one of those days when you just can't "talis".

Kia Ora - just to avoid confusion, that's a common greeting on this side of the Tasman.

There is no disgrace in being manhandled by South Africa. They are a hell of a team. But after six weeks of uninterrupted fun, it felt like someone had let the air out of the balloon, writes Dylan Cleaver.

New Zealand, and particularly Brendon McCullum, will not ease off the accelerator tomorrow - and nor should he.

It sounds like a bad joke, but a fired up West Indies team might not be the pushover New Zealand were looking for.