Govt refuses to join Maori rugby apology
PM John Key says an apology to Maori rugby players excluded from All Blacks tours to South Africa is a matter between unions.
PM John Key says an apology to Maori rugby players excluded from All Blacks tours to South Africa is a matter between unions.
No one is certain what Sonny Bill Williams' sporting intentions are although it seems he is keen on persevering with his rugby career.
Top 10-ranked rugby nations Scotland and Fiji will not make another tour of NZ until at least the next decade.
The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) has made a formal offer to lure former rugby league star Sonny Bill Williams home.
Rugby officials hope their apology will consign a sorry chapter in New Zealand-South African relations to the history books.
Pita Sharples has criticised the NZRU's Maori appointees for advising against the union's apology today for past treatment of Maori players.
Two prominent Maori former All Blacks have welcomed NZRU's apology to Maori players, but one player from the 60s says the scars will never heal.
Hail the Warriors - but our befuddled league club should think again before getting too smug.
New contract system means many leading NZ super rugby players will move to new franchises.
NZRU and Rugby New Zealand 2011 Ltd Chairman Jock Hobbs has stood down from both roles effective immediately due to health issues.
All Black Sione Lauaki was today remanded for sentencing next month after pleading guilty to an assault charge in March.
Check out NZ rugby, now that the master Crusaders coach has gone. You'll find one sick puppy, a sad mob of Super 14 lost souls.
The Highlanders may have won on Friday night but they are still in a bad place on and off the field, writes Gregor Paul.
A Herald on Sunday investigation into the economics of the Rugby World Cup suggests we shouldn't take claims about the event at face value.