by Jake Beleski | Jan 16, 2017 | Opinion
By Jake Beleski jake.beleski@age.co.nz The All Blacks will not be defending the team of the year award they won at last year’s Laureus Sports Awards, and rightly so. They failed to secure a nomination in the team category this time around, and a quick glance at...
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by Emily | Jan 15, 2017 | Opinion
By Seamus Boyer editor@age.co.nz Masterton pool and gym users should expect a fantastic deal from whoever ends up running the Genesis Recreation Centre. Particularly given the level of service provided by the current operators, who have not even made a Masterton...
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by Seamus Boyer | Jan 13, 2017 | Opinion
Seth Rance was a go-to player for Central Districts. PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES Things didn’t quite go as planned for a couple of Wairarapa cricketers playing in the national T20 cricket final at Pukekura Park on Saturday. But one of them showed once again that...
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by Jake Beleski | Jan 9, 2017 | Opinion
By Jake Beleski jake.beleski@age.co.nz It looks like Serena Williams won’t be back at the ASB Classic anytime soon, and good riddance. It was only in the last week or so that Williams announced her belief that if she were a man she would have long ago been...
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by Seamus Boyer | Jan 6, 2017 | Local News, Opinion
By Seamus Boyer editor@age.co.nz An eyewitness account of a Filipino fisherman’s death at Lake Onoke in yesterday’s Times-Age has stirred up an emotional response among the paper’s readers. Some have even started to point the finger at those who dug...
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by Jake Beleski | Jan 5, 2017 | Opinion
By Jake Beleski jake.beleski@age.co.nz Can Roger Federer win another grand slam title? That is the question that has been asked of the greatest player of all time since winning his 17th major at Wimbledon in 2012. The simple answer is yes he can, but the odds are...
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by Jake Beleski | Jan 1, 2017 | Opinion
By Jake Beleski jake.beleski@age.co.nz Young tennis prodigy Jade Lewis represents the next chapter in a so far fruitless campaign to find New Zealand’s first Grand Slam women’s champion. The 18-year-old was this week granted a wildcard into New...
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by Emily | Dec 23, 2016 | Opinion
By Don Farmer Don.farmer@age.co.nz A bracket of big sports stories have been in the news this week, some good, some not so good and some a bit baffling. Colin Cooper’s appointment as coach of the Chiefs from 2018 was welcomed throughout the rugby world especially as...
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