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The Price of Gold

We all know that top level sport is no longer about the contest, it is about money. It is about the money that success generates, be it sponsorship dollars, memberships, or television rights. In many of the less high profile

Do These Nations Have a Point, or Points?

On the 6th of June the Executive Board of the International Hockey federation met in Lausanne and a number of key decisions were made regarding the future of the sport. One decision was that world rankings would be introduced for

Time To Lose The Labels?

“Sport should be an escape,” was a term shared with me recently by a former elite sportsperson, who is still involved coaching the next generation. The term struck a chord. For ask any medical practitioner and they will advise people

Podcast #115 – The Biggest Surf Park in the Southern Hemisphere, A Letter, and Are the Media Really to Blame.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

We’re back for our 19th year and our 539th show. Happy New Year! This show is slightly longer than our normal length but we hope that you will feel it is worth it, as we have a very interesting guest

The Ripple Effect?

Sunday 22nd January 2023 may well go down in hockey as Black Sunday. For it was on this day that New Zealand’s Black Sticks who finished third in their World Cup pool with only one victory, came from behind against