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Covid-19 has become the final nail in the countries daily newspapers coverage of local sport. Stuff had scythed through their ranks of sports...
It is hard to believe that it is 50 years since the first running of the Japan Trophy race at Tauranga racecourse. What started life as the Bay...
Four Western Bay of Plenty club cricket teams will get the chance to play on an international cricket ground this week. On Thursday evening, the...
One of the real pleasures of Sideline Sids lifetime involvement with sport, has been watching the development of youngsters from starting out in sport...
Autumn thoroughbred feature racing at the Greerton racecourse stretches back six decades. The sport attracts many of the best horses and jockeys in...
Covid-19 continues to rear its ugly head and cause ongoing problems with daily life in New Zealand. This time, local cricket fans will be denied...
Sideline Sid has written a number of times about defined and clearly understood sporting pathways being the key to individual and team success. ...
While Sideline Sid's duties as a local cricket correspondent take him to a myriad of cricket games each season, his attendance at Western Bay B Grade...
Sideline Sid almost fell of his chair on Monday nigh, when the One News sports presenter decided to give his 10 G.O.A.T's (Greatest Of All Time)...
There have been massive changes in how we receive our (sports) news, since the first newspaper in the New Zealand Gazette was published in 1839. ...
The recent announcement of the visit of the England and Australian Women's teams to the Bay Oval, provides a return to the Western Bay of Plenty for...
Four Tauranga Boxing Club members have big assignments in the coming days, as they put their reputations on the line at the re-scheduled 2020 Boxing...
With the second half of the local club cricket season kicking-off last weekend, Sideline Sid's thoughts wandered to up-coming club rugby season in...
Cricket has had Sideline Sid's attention, left, right and centre, since the Boxing Day Test kicked-off at the Bay Oval. 'Build it and they will...
Desmond Joseph Ferrow passed away in early December 2020, aged 87 years of age, after a life well lived. While Des Ferrow was a very well known...
Black Cap batsman Glenn Phillips smashed two centuries in six days at the Bay Oval, to bring further attention to one of the best international...
Volunteers are the backbone of this great country. The commitment of hundreds of thousands of unpaid workers gives our nation one of the highest...
There are few more picturesque cricket grounds in the country than the Tauranga Domain number two field. With plenty of trees providing...
Sideline Sid and Mrs Sid are away in the South Island for some much needed R&R after the stresses of the last six months. The durable duo have spent...
Modern technology is a marvellous thing with all the bells and whistles of today making life much more accessible. We have come a long way since...
It's amazing what history buffs like Sideline Sid find when they trawl through past papers, looking for historical information. A recent search...
The graph below shows the range of Tauranga's October rainfalls, from an extreme high of 357 mm in 1916 to a low of only 7 mm in 1984. The second...
Sideline Sid is excited about a group of young Western Bay of Plenty representative cricket players, who could follow in the footsteps of current Bay...
Here we go again says Sideline Sid. The (latest) "Fight of the Century" is to take place in Auckland Spark Arena on December 11, with the event...
Good old fashioned kiwi ingenuity came to the fore, after the cancellation of the NZTR Horse of the Year presentations because of COVID-19. The...
The Bay Oval has received the highest accolade that can be given to an international cricket venue in the Southern Hemisphere, in hosting a Boxing Day...
Mitre 10 Rugby has received plenty of attention on Sideline Sid's Sky Sport viewing, in his countdown to chasing the live action on the local cricket...
There are few sporting trophies in New Zealand, that inspire such passionate fervour and player and fans support, than the rugby trophy universally...
The Mitre 10 Cup kicked off last weekend with much fanfare and lived up to expectations with seven games of pulsating action. The Bay of Plenty...
Coronavirus has played havoc with New Zealand's sporting calendar, with a myriad of events and competitions disrupted and cancelled. One postponed...
Sideline Sid has a long-held belief that to produce world class sportsmen or women, there needs to be a very strong base foundation. In recent...
Another chapter in the history of the Tauranga Domain was written last Saturday, with the two 2020 Western Bay of Plenty Rugby titles fought out at...
'The little (rugby) club that can' is a title that could well be applied to the Judea Rugby Club, tucked away in Maharaia Winiata Park off Sutherland...