A massive weekend of sporting action is upon us – and how better to embrace the big matches than to put your money where you mouth is.
A naked pitch-invader interrupted the All Blacks game against Argentina on Saturday in Napier, and the streaker has admitted to who she was actually going for.
A pitch-invader during the international rugby Test between the All Blacks and England is smashed by security, who almost break his neck in the process.
The All Black Seven’s team have a habit of ripping off their shirts when they win a tournament, but fans were in for a special treat in Hong Kong this past weekend, when the weather gods conspired to deliver a sopping wet shirtless haka.
Local columnist, Andile Mngxitama has launched a scathing attack on Springbok rugby in a column published by the City Press, titled ‘Springboks are a perfect metaphor for SA’. Regarding the Bok loss to the All Blacks in Dunedin some weeks back due to what has been widely recognised as on of the worst examples of refereeing in the history of the game, Mngxitama said, “The bad refereeing that cost the Boks the game was merely poetic justice and karma.”
For most of us, the haka is something the All Blacks do before a rugby test, and not much more. In reality though, hakas are performed throughout New Zealand, not only by Maori. This moving, farewell haka performed by a passionate military unit captures the emotional weight of the war cry and has captivated thousands of viewers around the world.
A hard line taken today by the International Rugby Board could see the All Blacks not competing in the next Rugby World Cup. In response to New Zealand’s warning last week that they would consider pulling out of the 2015 tournament, citing financial losses during this year’s World Cup, the IRB have shrugged and said, “everyone is replaceable”.
Darren Shand, the manager of the New Zealand national rugby team, says that they are considering changing the traditional white fern to a red fern over the world cup, as a gesture towards earthquake-hit Christchurch.
Air New Zealand has cut a scene from its in-flight safety video, which showed All Black centre Richard Kahui reject a kiss from a male flight attendant. Their reason: such a scene has the potential to cause gay suicides and substance abuse. Outrageous slippery slope. [VIDEO].
Kevin Mealamu is a talented individual. Not only is the master of getting away with blatant head butts (yawn), but also he is pretty masterful at driving a tank. Competing with fellow ABs Conrad Smith and Piri Weepu, Mealamu shows that even if he was out of rugby for months, he could combine his head butting and tank-driving skills to become quite the serviceman. [VIDEO]
In response to the NFL ‘pick me’ ad, the All Blacks Cory Jane, Piri Weepu and Rene Ranger wowed viewers with their skills whereas the CA Technologies Brumbies have responded with a few class skills of their own.
Jinxed, much? Please, enjoy this photograph of the front page of the New Zealand Herald, dated Wednesday 29 September 2010. That’s unusually arrogant for an agriculturally-based society, isn’t it?
Online encyclopedia and paragon of humankind’s collective knowledge, WikiPedia, has proven it’s unbridled accuracy once again. Remember the story about WikiPedia referring to Sepp Blatter as a dickhead? And how the South African presidency made the fatal error of pulling that corrupted biographical info from WikiPedia and pasted it on their site? Well, we hope […]