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Invercargill’s Tom Cowie is set to play a key role in the Southland Sharks’ push for a fourth National Basketball League title in 2022. The 21 year old guard enters his fifth Sal’s NBL season this year on the back of a 2021 season which saw him record career highs in total points, rebounds and […]

After a week of reflection, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel returned to the winner’s circle with an emphatic 71-62 win over Robinhood Stars in Invercargill on Sunday. Stung by their 20-goal capitulation last week, the Steel of old returned against the Stars. Able to use all their bench, and revertin

Highlanders First Five Eight and 2021 SBS Bank Southland Stags player of the year Marty Banks is back for the 2022 Bunnings NPC Season. Marty Banks made his Southland debut against Otago in 2021, going on to play nine games last season for the Stags, being named both supporters club and Southland St

With the borders open, a significant number of New Zealand cyclists are heading across the Tasman for a unique Oceania Cycling Championships. The championships comprise nine cycling categories which started with mountain bike downhill last weekend and finish with the road race on April 10, all in an

With a weather-eye on the immediate need for global points but with a desire to look to the future, Cycling New Zealand has selected a mix of proven and potential in the team to context next week’s track competition at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane. The Oceania Cycling Confederation has orga

Southland showed that it is still a powerhouse in New Zealand cycling with some exceptional performances at the Track National Championships, contested over five days of intense racing at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge. The team claimed a national record, a couple of championship record

Rugby and netball are starkly contrasting sporting codes but physiotherapist Andrew Mackintosh is discovering plenty of similarities. Mackintosh has joined the ranks of the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel this season, tasked with keeping the players in peak shape as the demands of the ANZ Premiershi

Fifteen–year old Invercargill driver, Alex Crosbie, has surpassed even his own expectations after taking third place in the 2021/2022 South Island Formula 1600 Championship which ended at his home circuit, Teretonga Park in Invercargill last weekend. Alex, a Year 11 student at Southland Boys High Sc