Sports

All Blacks Finalise Squad for Rugby World Cup

Posted 12:12pm Sunday 6th September 2015 by Daniel Lormans

The speculation from armchair critics is now over, and our 31-man All Blacks squad to defend the World Cup has been finalised. The squad balance suggests that the All Blacks will continue their open and attacking style of play — expect “spinning it wide” to try and scores in Read more...

Updates | Issue 21

Posted 11:59am Sunday 30th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

Football Manchester City kicked off the English Premier League season with ominous intent by winning their opening three games without conceding a goal and beating defending champions Chelsea 3–0. Formula One Lewis Hamilton dominated the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, taking pole Read more...

ITM Cup to Help Fine-Tune All Blacks

Posted 11:47am Sunday 30th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

The ITM has lost some of its importance recently with Super Rugby and All Blacks games taking precedence over the domestic provincial championship. This season though — instead of wrapping their players up in cotton wool before the World Cup — some of the All Blacks have been released Read more...

Warriors Need a Miracle

Posted 11:44am Sunday 30th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

With just two games remaining in the regular season, the New Zealand Warriors sit 10th on the NRL ladder having taken 22 points from 22 games. This doesn’t sound too bad on paper, but the nature of what was their sixth successive defeat has really compounded their late season misery — Read more...

F1 Season Reaches Half Distance

Posted 12:17pm Sunday 16th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

Whether it is racing around the world’s best circuits or just racing to get to Castle 1 on time, the lives of Otago students and F1 drivers are hectic and require a lot of commitment — meaning we both deserve a break. As students are eyeing up some grab-a-seat deals to get back to Read more...

Updates

Posted 11:59am Sunday 9th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

Football Arsenal’s 1–0 victory over Chelsea in the FA Community Shield was Arsene Wenger’s first win over José Mourinho in 14 attempts. Mourinho subsequently tossed his runners-up medal into the crowd. Motorsport Hayden Paddon crashed his Hyundai i20 out of Read more...

Back to Beijing: Part II

Posted 11:53am Sunday 9th August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics after the Chinese capital was awarded the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The final result of the two-year candidacy process was confirmed at the 128th International Olympic Committee session in Kuala Lumpur, Read more...

Premier League Clubs Pre-Season Tour

Posted 12:16pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

The English Premier League season is kicking off this weekend, and the teams have been busy in the transfer market in an effort to improve on their position from last season. In preparation for the 2015–16 season, many of the teams embarked on what has now become standard practice — an Read more...

Opinion: The Art of Sport

Posted 12:14pm Sunday 2nd August 2015 by Daniel Lormans

With the theme of this week’s issue in mind, I spent some time thinking about whether or not sports can be considered as art. Art is a very subjective concept to define properly, but I see it as an expressive form of human creativity, skill and imagination that combine to produce a work/text Read more...

Acceptance and Equality the Big Winners at the ESPY Awards

Posted 12:59pm Sunday 26th July 2015 by Daniel Lormans

The ESPYs (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards) are Hollywood’s “ratings-orientated” sports awards, which recognise people for sporting as well as humanitarian contributions to society and popular culture. This year’s edition provided much Read more...