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Late Chris Wood cameo helps spare Nottingham Forest blushes
12 Feb 2025The All Whites star scored in a penalty shootout to help his side scrape through to the next round of the FA Cup with a tense win over third-tier Exeter City.
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Super Rugby Pacific team preview: the Hurricanes
12 Feb 2025We're counting down to the season starting on Friday, today Jamie Wall looks at the last year's round robin winners, the Hurricanes.
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Lienert-Brown backs Super Rugby draft
12 Feb 2025Anton Lienert-Brown says Super Rugby needs spectators and fans talking and engaged - he says that's what a draft does.
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INEOS says it tried to reach 'sensible agreement' with NZ Rugby
12 Feb 2025All Blacks sponsor INEOS says it tried to reach a "sensible agreement" with New Zealand Rugby, which is suing the petrochemical giant. Audio
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Real Madrid's Bellingham nets late winner in thriller with City
12 Feb 2025Kylian Mbappe and Brahim Diaz also struck to cancel out a double from Erling Haaland in their Champions League knockout phase playoff.
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Warren Gatland leaves Wales job after horror record
12 Feb 2025The New Zealander had been under contract until the 2027 World Cup, but recent results made his position look untenable.
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Auckland FC coach scores A-League hat-trick
12 Feb 2025Steve Corica is undefeated in fans' eyes, after scooping the season's coaching awards so far..
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Mikaela Shiffrin ties record at alpine skiing world championships with 15th medal
12 Feb 2025The US ski great won a record-equalling 15th career world championships medal when she struck gold in the women's team combined event.
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Lakers rout Jazz in Luka Dončić's debut
12 Feb 2025Luka Dončić produced 14 points, five rebounds and four assists in his Los Angeles Lakers debut spearheading a 132-113 win over the Utah Jazz.
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‘They aren’t well-informed’ – Rieko Ioane to critics
12 Feb 2025The outspoken Blues and All Blacks centre had a message for rugby fans across the country.
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Springboks and Pumas to play Rugby Championship Test at Twickenham
12 Feb 2025The fixture is only the second match in the annual tournament's history to be held outside of the four involved nations.
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Barnett, Fisher-Harris named Warriors co-captains
11 Feb 2025It is only the second time in the NRL club's history for co-captains to be named.
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Doping ban hits NBL play-offs
11 Feb 2025Australian Boomer, Sydney Kings and former Wellington Saints player Xavier Cooks has been suspended for potential anti-doping violation.
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Former All Black on INEOS' failure to pay: 'They deserve to be hammered'
11 Feb 2025Chris Laidlaw was among 100 kiwis to sign a public letter to New Zealand Rugby denouncing the sponsorship deal.
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NZ Rugby takes legal action against major sponsor INEOS
11 Feb 2025In a statement to RNZ, NZ Rugby alleged the company owned by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe had ended its six-year sponsorship deal which began in 2022.
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Super Rugby Pacific team preview: the Highlanders
11 Feb 2025We're counting down to the season starting on Friday, today Jamie Wall looks at the Highlanders.
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"Ngā Kaitiaki": The four captains of the Hurricanes
11 Feb 2025Under a new structure, one of Asafo Aumua, Du'Plessis Kirifi, Billy Proctor or Brad Shields will lead the side in each match, beginning with Friday's season-opener against the Crusaders in…
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Police response criticised at Sam Kerr trial in London
11 Feb 2025The jury in the trial of Australian soccer star Sam Kerr has been told the police response was "completely unacceptable" on the night she called a policeman "stupid and white".
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Matt Boyle hits century to continue red-hot Canterbury form
11 Feb 2025Matt Boyle has continued his prodigious domestic white ball cricket form with a record-breaking one-day century for Canterbury.
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Kane Williamson century seals Black Caps win over South Africa
11 Feb 2025Kane Williamson and Devon Conway unfurl a record partnership to steer the Black Caps to victory over South Africa in their Tri-Nations ODI in Lahore.
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Eagles lineman Mailata notches Australian first with Super Bowl triumph
11 Feb 2025Jordan Mailata was momentarily lost for words after becoming the first Australian to play on a winning Super Bowl team.
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Eagles take victory at Superbowl LIX
10 Feb 2025The game was a "total blow out from start to finish", Jamie Wall writes.
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'Long overdue': Schools Maadi Regatta extra-year rowers banned
10 Feb 2025Officials have ended a controversial practice that has been a source of tension in school rowing for decades. Audio
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The Super Rugby players to watch in 2025
10 Feb 2025RNZ highlights players with plenty to prove this Super Rugby Pacific season.
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