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Scott Dixon confirms he is leaving Chip Ganassi Racing after 24 years and six titles
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- The longest and most successful driver and team partnership New Zealand motorsport has ever produced is coming to an end. Sir Scott Dixon has told Chip Ganassi Racing he will not be back in 2027, closing a 24-year run that turned him into one of the greatest drivers the American open-wheel scene has seen. Chip […]
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Dave Rennie hands Ruben Love the All Blacks number 10 jersey and leaves Beauden Barrett out for his first test
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- Dave Rennie has made his first big call as All Blacks coach, handing the number 10 jersey to Hurricanes first-five Ruben Love and leaving veteran Beauden Barrett out of the match-day squad entirely for Saturday night’s test against France in Christchurch. The selection, named on Thursday, opens the 2026 Nations Championship and marks the start […]
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Silver Ferns warn their home league could die as Netball New Zealand stays silent on 2027
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- New Zealand’s top netballers have used the final days of the ANZ Premiership season to warn that their home competition could vanish altogether, with no broadcast deal and no confirmed plan for 2027 even as the last games are played. The Premiership is the only fully professional netball league left in New Zealand, and it […]
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Suzie Bates, Sophie Devine and Lea Tahuhu retire as England knock the White Ferns out of the T20 World Cup
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- The White Ferns have crashed out of the women’s Twenty20 World Cup in London, and with the loss came the end of three of the most decorated careers New Zealand cricket has produced. A nine wicket defeat to England in the final Group B pool match closed out the title defence and drew the curtain […]
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Warriors women open their NRLW season against Canterbury in Hamilton
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- The New Zealand Warriors women’s side will open their 2026 NRLW season against the Canterbury Bulldogs in Hamilton on Sunday, with as many as six players in line to make their club debuts in the black and white jersey. It is the second season back for the Warriors women after the club returned to the […]
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Shane van Gisbergen sweeps Sonoma for his second NASCAR Cup win of 2026
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- Auckland racer Shane van Gisbergen has turned a miserable week into one of the best of his NASCAR career, sweeping both national series races at California’s Sonoma Raceway and grabbing his second Cup Series win of the 2026 season. The Trackhouse Racing driver led 74 of the 110 laps in the headline Cup race on […]
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Black Caps beat England by 160 runs at Trent Bridge to win the test series and spoil Ben Stokes farewell
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- New Zealand have pulled off one of their finest results in the long history of test cricket, beating England by 160 runs at Trent Bridge on Monday to take the three match series 2-1 and end Ben Stokes’ international career with a heavy defeat rather than the fairytale he wanted. The win in Nottingham made […]
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Eliza McCartney claims pole vault silver in Paris as New Zealand trio fine tune for the Commonwealth Games
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- Eliza McCartney has timed her run to perfection, clearing 4.70 metres to take the silver medal in the women’s pole vault at the Paris Diamond League meet, a result that leaves New Zealand’s most decorated vaulter peaking at exactly the right moment with the Commonwealth Games now less than four weeks away. McCartney was edged […]
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Liam Lawson takes a career best sixth at the Austrian Grand Prix for his fourth straight points finish
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- Liam Lawson has driven the best Formula One race of his career, holding on for sixth place at the Austrian Grand Prix and stretching a run of form that no New Zealand driver has matched in more than half a century. The Pukekohe-raised driver started ninth on the grid at the Red Bull Ring and […]
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Warriors fall to the Dolphins by two points again as a late Cobbo try sinks them in Brisbane
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- The Warriors are running out of ways to describe the cruelty of close football. For the third time in a month they have lost an NRL match by two points, and once again it was a late try that ripped the result away, the Dolphins edging them 26-24 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday […]
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Northern Mystics win a record fourth ANZ Premiership title with a 56-46 grand final win over the Southern Steel
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- The Northern Mystics have become the most successful franchise in ANZ Premiership history, beating the Southern Steel 56-46 in the grand final at The Trusts Arena in west Auckland on Saturday night to claim a record fourth national netball title. The win, in front of a noisy home crowd, caps a season in which the […]
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All Whites crash out of the World Cup after a 5-1 loss to Belgium in Vancouver
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- The All Whites are out of the World Cup. A young New Zealand side was beaten 5-1 by Belgium at BC Place in Vancouver on Friday, ending a campaign that began with real promise and finished bottom of Group G with a single point. New Zealand needed to win to have any chance of reaching […]
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Heffernan twins reach netball grand finals on both sides of the Tasman in the same week
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- Identical twins Kate and Georgia Heffernan have pulled off something no New Zealand netball family has managed before. Inside a single weekend, the Silver Ferns sisters booked grand final places on opposite sides of the Tasman, one in Invercargill and one in Adelaide, and their parents were left trying to follow both games at once. […]
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Māori All Blacks hand five players their first cap as they take on Japan XV in Nagoya
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- The Māori All Blacks run out in Nagoya tonight with five players set to win their first cap, as new head coach Tamati Ellison opens his tenure against a Japan XV at the rebuilt Paloma Mizuho Stadium. Kick-off is 7.05pm Japan time, which is 10.05pm in New Zealand on Saturday. It is the only fixture […]
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Silver Ferns World Cup winner Gina Crampton retires after 70 tests and a career on both sides of the Tasman
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- Gina Crampton, one of the most accomplished midcourters New Zealand netball has produced, has called time on her professional career at the age of 34. The announcement came just days after she pulled on the Mainland Tactix dress for the last time in the ANZ Premiership elimination final, a match the Tactix lost to the […]
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Latham and Conway smash a record 317 stand as the Black Caps seize day one of the Trent Bridge decider
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- Tom Latham and Devon Conway batted New Zealand into a commanding position on the opening day of the third and deciding test against England at Trent Bridge, sharing a record opening stand of 317 before a late flurry of wickets gave the home side a sliver of hope. The Black Caps closed the day on […]
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All Whites must beat Belgium in Vancouver to keep their World Cup alive
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- New Zealand’s footballers reach the moment their whole World Cup comes down to one game on Saturday afternoon, when the All Whites face Belgium in Vancouver knowing that nothing short of a win will keep them in the tournament. The match kicks off at 3pm New Zealand time at BC Place, and after a draw […]
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Moana Pasifika cut from Super Rugby Pacific from 2027 after New Zealand Rugby rejects rescue bids
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- Moana Pasifika will play no part in Super Rugby Pacific from 2027 after New Zealand Rugby rejected every bid put forward to keep the Pacific franchise alive, ending a four year experiment that was meant to give Samoan, Tongan and wider Pacific players a home team in the southern hemisphere’s premier club competition. New Zealand […]
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David Liti leads a young New Zealand weightlifting team into the Glasgow Commonwealth Games
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- New Zealand has named a seven-strong weightlifting team for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and the squad reads as a neat snapshot of where the sport sits in this country right now. There is one proven champion at the front of it, a clutch of young lifters about to feel the lights of a major Games […]
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Bob Blair, the New Zealand fast bowler who batted through Tangiwai grief, dies at 94
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- New Zealand cricket is mourning Bob Blair, the Petone-born fast bowler whose quiet courage at a Johannesburg test ground in 1953 became one of the most moving moments in the country’s sporting history. Blair died in England on his 94th birthday, and New Zealand Cricket marked his passing on Wednesday. For most of his career […]
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Southern Steel reach their first netball grand final in eight years with win over the Tactix
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- The Southern Steel have booked their first netball grand final in eight years, holding off the defending champion Mainland Tactix 60-54 in a sold-out elimination final at Stadium Southland in Invercargill. The win sends the Steel to Auckland to meet the Northern Mystics for the ANZ Premiership title on Saturday. It was a result the […]
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Dave Rennie names Ardie Savea as All Blacks captain in his first squad
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- The Dave Rennie era of All Blacks rugby has a captain and a squad. New Zealand’s new head coach has handed the captaincy to loose forward Ardie Savea and named four uncapped players in his first 34-man squad, unveiled on Monday ahead of the team’s opening Nations Championship test against France in Christchurch on 4 […]
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Matt Henry takes record 11 wickets as Black Caps thrash England by 253 runs to level the series
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- The Black Caps have levelled their test series against England in crushing fashion, bowling the hosts out for 209 on the fifth morning at The Oval to win the second test by 253 runs and set up a winner-takes-all decider in Nottingham. The result squares the three-match series at one win apiece after England had […]
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White Ferns survive an Ireland scare by four runs to keep their T20 World Cup defence alive
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- New Zealand have breathed life back into their Women’s T20 World Cup title defence, holding off a fast-finishing Ireland by four runs at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton on Friday to claim a first win of the tournament and keep their slim qualification hopes intact. The defending champions had lost their opening two matches and […]
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Hurricanes destroy Chiefs 60-5 in Wellington gale to win Super Rugby Pacific title
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- The Hurricanes have produced what many are already calling the greatest grand final performance in Super Rugby history, demolishing the Chiefs 60-5 in a howling Wellington gale to claim the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific title and end a decade-long wait for silverware. On a night when the wind was supposed to drag the contest into […]
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Paul Coll powers into PSA Tour Finals decider against Diego Elias in Paris
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- New Zealand squash great Paul Coll has booked his place in the final of the PSA Squash Tour Finals in Paris, keeping a remarkable purple patch rolling just a fortnight after he lifted the British Open trophy for a third time. The 34 year old from Greymouth produced one of his most assured performances of […]
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Tyler Bindon and his mum Jenny become the first mother and son to play at a World Cup
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- When Tyler Bindon jogged onto the field at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles late in the second half of the All Whites’ World Cup draw, he did more than win another cap for New Zealand. He completed a piece of football history that began nearly two decades earlier, on the other side of the world, […]
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Black Foils sold to American private equity firm MSP Sports Capital as Burling and Tuke stay in charge
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- The Black Foils have a new owner. New Zealand’s SailGP sailing team has been bought by the American private equity firm MSP Sports Capital, a deal that hands the country’s most successful foiling outfit a deep-pocketed backer and completes a sweeping change in how the global league is run. MSP has taken a majority stake […]
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All Whites top their World Cup group after Eli Just’s historic brace against Iran
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- New Zealand football is daring to dream again. The All Whites sit top of their group at the 2026 FIFA World Cup after a thrilling 2-2 draw with Iran in Los Angeles, a result built on the broad shoulders of midfielder Eli Just, who became the first New Zealander to score twice in a single […]
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Steve Corica quits Auckland FC for Japan weeks after winning the A-League title
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- Auckland FC will start their third season without the man who built them. Steve Corica, the only head coach the club has ever had, has resigned barely a fortnight after steering the side to the A-League championship, and he is heading to Japan to take charge of one of the J-League’s biggest names, Yokohama F. […]
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