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Today or tomorrow would be ideal for a summary of the top stories in 2019, with the additional benefit of the chance to cover the entire decade, but the state of our memories is such that we do not have much recall for the previous year, much less the decade. What we know for certain…

Charles Leclerc has been extended by Ferrari Scuderia for the next five F1 seasons, so he might be the one who appears closer in the mirror of Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton for some time. Leclerc is now with the team until 2024, although five years in motor racing of any kind is one form of…

New Zealand beating Australia in rugby football is barely news, except that this time it was the Black Ferns inflicting defeat on the Wallaroos in the Sevens format. The two sides were playing in South Africa in the Cape Town rugby Sevens and the outcome of the game was 17 – 7. It required less…

While most of the major team sports codes across the world continue to struggle to find good officiating, consistent officiating, or at the very least, officiating that does not supply routine embarrassment and the various video replay systems create more harm than good, one thing that has provided a bright spot is that more care…

Steve Hansen’s hiatus from rugby football was a short one. He has accepted an emeritus position with Toyota Verblitz in the Top League, where he will be acting as a mentor and consultant for Verblitz and his fellow New Zealander Simon Cron, coach of the Japanese club. After 16 years of various roles with New…

It is only a few days until December arrives and sometime during the month, New Zealand will announce the successor to Steve Hansen. The “short” list is down after leading contenders Warren Gatland and Jamie Joseph both offered regrets and ruled themselves out of the running. New Zealand Rugby chairman Brent Impey recently made the…

There are still bargains to be found in the world of professional sports. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (ZI) is through with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer after two seasons of U.S. soccer. He will be able to go elsewhere in January of 2023. The reports are that the parting was mutually acceptable, but Zlatan…

The Lahore Qalandars will have to do what they can with what they have, as AB de Villiers requested and was granted a release by the Pakistan Super League club. The South African cricketer will turn 36 years of age shortly after the beginning of 2023 and he has decided that it is time to…

Ireland is due in July for a Test in Sydney during July of 2023. The gardeners at the SCG will have until then to get the turf properly prepared. To our amazement, there has not been a rugby Test at SCG in almost 35 years. It was 1986 when the Wallabies beat Argentina 26 –…

It might appear, at first glance, that all of Australia were watching the New Zealand Breakers play the Illawarra Hawks in a recent NBL game. The reports are that two million people tuned in. Second glance reveals that the two million people audience claim was for a global audience that streamed the game on Facebook….