Whichever way you dice it, Colin Slade's inclusion in the All Black squad is unusual, one that rates with the selection of Isaia Toeava in 2005 as one of the more exotic choices by the panel.

The All Blacks will head off for another Grand Slam tour next year - their third in five years.

Top premiership soccer club to perform flippant haka before its season-opening game this week, despite legal protests that it insults Maori.

Miracle makeovers are not on Auckland coach Mark Anscombe's mind ahead of tomorrow night's match against Canterbury at Eden Park.