With the recent weekend sports in NZ two of the national teams certainly faced their fare share of criticism with the number of errors that occurred in their respective performances.  It is certainly true that we should expect the odd mistake in our performances, but it is in the way in which we respond to [...]

I was lucky enough to catch the end of the game between the new US rising star of tennis, Michelle Oudin, and Nadia Petrova.  She again lost the first set and was in danger of losing the match while Petrova was dominating the match in the way that their respective rankings would imply.  However, strangely [...]

After a tough few weeks in Sri Lanka the NZ Black Caps have found that winning feeling again.  It is interesting that the NZ team has had a consistently good limited overs record for the past 10 years or so and yet they have been unable to apply that consistency or success to the 5-day [...]

The NZ test series with Sri Lanka played out pretty much as predicted by the test rankings. The NZ batsmen unable to apply themselves for long periods in the challenging environment while the well performing Sri Lankan team enjoyed playing at ‘home’.  However, the limited over version of cricket should bring about a level competition as [...]

 
The Tall Black NZ Basketball team had a victory to savour last night when they defeated their much higher ranked opponents, the Australian Boomers, by 100-78.  This victory earned NZ the number 1 seeding for the World Championships next year and left the Boomers wondering why they did not learn their lesson from the well [...]

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So the Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt continues his rampage through the record books.  What a great way to start the day to see another World Record fall.  When you watch the video you will see that no one appears able to challenge him at all over this distance, at least he did appear a little tired [...]

WOW, hard to believe that in under 12 months Usain Bolt has introduced the World Record books to two new zones of the 9.6 and 9.5 seconds.  It was only 2 years ago that breaking 9.8 seconds was a world-record breaking event and a time in the 9.8’s would almost assuredly be a winning time.  [...]

Tiger Woods is leading after shooting 4 under the card in the the 1st round of the US PGA and, ominously for the other players, he is not happy with how he played.  Tiger’s playing history indicates that he tends to win the Major tournaments when he leads after the 1st round however instead of celebrating [...]

In two varied sports, injury to high profiled sportsmen and their dealing with the symptoms of injury has caused two contrasting outcomes. The use of routines could help them to maintain optimum activation and be ready to perform.