There are two apologies to make this week. We are really, really sorry about Dennis Rodman.

McKinnon's retirement came courtesy of that bloodied, bruising bout with Berridge, marketed as a grudge match and having every appearance of being so.

You do wonder at times about the brains trust running New Zealand football.

It was an interesting coincidence that Ma'a Nonu's return to the Blues occurred in the same week as Sir Alex Ferguson's book launch.

All you have to do to understand how deeply entrenched drug-taking is in sport is to go to Google. Type in "fake penises for drugs testing" and up comes a website called Detox For Less, selling a US$150 Whizzinator.

He's baaack. Yes, folks, Arnie Schwarzenegger - who gave us the Terminator movies, plus one of the most surprising political victories as Governor of California.

It wasn't the fault of the code zero sail but it was another example of the tiny details in boat set-up that are continuing to affect Team New Zealand.

Eden Park provokes both reactions - a traditional love of the place and dislike sparked by the belief that it is out-moded and poorly located.

My daughters sang this when they were small and "it just goes on and on, my friends", just like the 34th America's Cup.

All the talk in New Zealand is of the "ninjas" who flag-bombed Larry Ellison's house in San Francisco.

It was a big win to Team New Zealand. At the end of a long but satisfying day, we turned on the TV news.

So Larry Ellison and a group of high-powered businessmen want to turn the America's Cup into a yearly World Series of sailing, with the winner challenging for cash and something else... oh yes, the America's Cup.

Drugs. Drunks. Indecent exposure. Abuse. It must be the library.

This was the day human error reasserted itself in the 34th America's Cup.

Dog detectives - the latest in crime fighters - are in a three-person laboratory in San Francisco.

Team New Zealand aren't the only New Zealand natives creating waves in San Francisco - so are the pohutukawa.

Trying to pick the winner of the 34th America's Cup is like opening a jar of coffee beans, picking two out and trying to decide which is tastier. Without tasting them.

The America's Cup international jury can rightly be regarded as heroes of the sport of sailing.

It will have been closely watched by the New Zealand Rugby Players Association.

The saddest thing about the cheating allegations being decided upon by the America's Cup international jury is that few people outside the sailing community really understand them.