Hoskins Sotutu of the Blues wins a lineout ball during the Round 2 Super Rugby Aotearoa match against the Chiefs in Hamilton on 20 June 2020. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Hoskins Sotutu is looking more and more like a candidate to fill the huge Kieran Read void at No 8 for NZ.Crusaders front-ranker Joe Moody was…
Blues flyhalf Otere Black Renee McKay / Getty Images The competition is fierce, but the Blues’ Otere Black is inching toward pivot consideration for NZ at Test level. Lanky Pari Pari Parkinson of the Highlanders was integral to a sterling Highlanders tight-five effort against the Chiefs. All Black wing Rieko Ioane looks more and more…
Dan Carter attends a training session after joining the Blues on 4 June 2020 in Auckland (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images) This weekend sees Super Rugby - or at least a version of Super Rugby - back on our screens for the first time since mid-March. Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets…
Francois Pienaar lifts the 1993 Super 10 trophy after Transvaal beat Auckland 20-17 at Ellis Park (Gallo Images) Comment: Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer While he still has plenty to prove as a first-time head coach at Super Rugby level this year, few would disagree that the Stormers' John Dobson has a sharp, sometimes unorthodox…
Elton Jantjies (Gallo Images) Heinz Schenk - Sport24 Last month, Elton Jantjies was named Sanzaar's South African Super Rugby Player of the Decade.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021It felt like some belated form of recognition for the Lions' captain, who's been criticised as much as he's been…
4 min read AT A GLANCE, getting good sleep seems pretty straightforward. Get (roughly) 8 hours of sleep every night. Check. Make sure nothing is waking you up in the middle of the night. Double check. But as you go down your checklist, have you crossed off what should be item number one? It turns
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with
17 min read IT’S APPROACHING 11 A.M. on a humid day in May. Ben Simmons has been out fishing in the waters southeast of Miami since 6:15, his boat pushing away from the marina with a waning crescent still hung in the sky. The 29-year-old has spent most of the morning up on the bow