The All Whites have played their first match since the World Cup, and it ended in a 2-2 draw with Palestine in Chongqing, China, after a new-look New Zealand side…
New Zealand Warriors centre Adam Pompey has been granted an early release from the final year of his contract and will continue his NRL career in Australia, ending an eight-season…
The Black Caps name a 16-man squad with seven fast bowlers for the five-match India T20 series starting 22 October. Adam Milne returns and Rachin Ravindra is ruled out.
Liam Lawson will race for Racing Bulls again at this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku. Red Bull has confirmed that Isack Hadjar is fit to return from the wrist…
Hayden Wilde has followed his Ironman 70.3 world title with another win on the French Riviera, taking the Ekoï French Riviera T100 Triathlon at Saint-Raphaël and Fréjus just six days…
All Blacks captain Ardie Savea will have surgery on the shoulder he dislocated in South Africa, and New Zealand Rugby cannot yet say when he will play again. New Zealand…
The NRL has admitted the New Zealand Warriors should have been given a penalty in the final minute of their 12-10 semi-final loss to the Newcastle Knights at Eden Park,…
Sam Tanner ran 3min 56.01sec for 12th in the world road mile championships in Copenhagen, cutting the New Zealand road record, while Hannah Gapes finished ninth in the 5km.
New Zealand’s women’s basketball league has landed the biggest name in its short history. The Tokomanawa Queens have signed American guard Hailey Van Lith, an Olympic bronze medallist and a…
The Black Ferns ran in 10 tries to beat Scotland 66-14 at Hive Stadium in Edinburgh, keeping their unbeaten record in the WXV Global Series with one match left before…
Black Caps all-rounder Rachin Ravindra dislocated his shoulder diving for a catch in a Sky promo shoot and is in doubt for the India T20 series from 22 October.
New Zealand Rugby has stepped up its fight with the NRL over the name of rugby league’s newest club, the Papua New Guinea Chiefs, arguing the Waikato Super Rugby franchise…
All Blacks prop Tamaiti Williams has described how an antibiotic-resistant superbug that took hold in his spine left doctors warning he could end up in a wheelchair, in his most…
The inner Hauraki Gulf reaches the 16 degree feeding mark and the 18 degree spawning mark on dates we can now put numbers on, from 41 springs of satellite data,…
All Whites defender Liberato Cacace has lost his driving licence for six months after admitting six speeding offences on the same stretch of road in Wales, all committed within weeks…
The New Zealand Breakers will open their NBL season on Sunday with a player who was not on the roster at the start of the week, after a torn hamstring…
New Zealand’s best road cyclists are paying their own way to the world championships in Canada next week, and one of them has publicly questioned why. Finn Fisher-Black, the 24-year-old…
Dame Noeline Taurua will coach the Silver Ferns through to the 2027 Netball World Cup in Sydney, Netball New Zealand announced on Thursday, six weeks after she led the team…
The Black Ferns have made wholesale changes for their first ever Test in Scotland, naming two potential debutants and keeping just seven starters from the side that beat France in…
More than 48,000 people will pack into Eden Park on Sunday night to watch the Warriors fight for their season, after tickets for the sudden-death NRL semifinal against the Newcastle…
New Zealand shooter Michael Johnson has come away from the world para shooting championships in Changwon, South Korea, with two silver medals, the second of them settled by one tenth…
Some of the fastest drivers in the world will race each other inside Wellington’s Hnry Stadium in January, after organisers confirmed the Race of Champions will be held in New…
The world’s best surfers are coming back to Raglan. The World Surf League confirmed on Tuesday that the New Zealand Pro at Manu Bay will stay on its Championship Tour…
Tactix defender Laura Balmer has earned her first Silver Ferns selection, and shooters Aliyah Dunn and Te Paea Selby-Rickit are back in the national squad after years away, in the…
Newswire built a database of every statistic from all 24 Warriors regular season games in 2026 and turned it into four scroll driven charts. Here is what separated the wins…
Liam Lawson finished sixth for Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, taking his 2026 tally to 59 points, the most by a New Zealander in one F1…
Hayden Wilde wins the Ironman 70.3 world championship in Nice by 18 seconds from Kristian Blummenfelt, two years after losing late to Jelle Geens in Taupō.
Northland beat Waikato 34-17 for a second Ranfurly Shield defence, their first ever Shield win over Waikato. Counties Manukau are the last challenge.
South Africa scored six tries to four in Baltimore to take Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series 3-1 in front of a record US rugby crowd.
The Dolphins scored three late tries to beat the Warriors in their NRL qualifying final, sending Andrew Webster’s side into a sudden-death semi-final against the Knights.