Suburbs Rugby Club and Manukau Rovers Rugby Football Club players form a wall and sing around a teammate receiving CPR after collapsing post-game. Players formed a human shield and sang songs in support of their fallen teammate as paramedics performed life-saving CPR on a man who collapsed during a club...
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Two promising players from Auckland’s Suburbs Rugby Football Club have been rushed to hospital in a critical condition after suffering separate on-field medical events in the space of a week. One of the players was seen collapsing on the field before being rushed to hospital and undergoing surgery to remove...
Aaron Taylor whose son has been at the centre of a 1st XV rugby eligibility fight between Kings College and Mt Albert Grammar. Photo / Dean Purcell A First XV rugby dispute in Auckland has taken a dramatic turn, with a legal authority ruling that a King’s College student is...
St Kentigern College players and fans celebrate victory. Photo / Bruce Holloway What a season St Kentigern College are enjoying in Auckland first XV rugby. On Saturday they joyously celebrated a 26-15 home win over previously unbeaten Sacred Heart to move five points clear at the top of the 1A...
Greg Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, examines one of the surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio, at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW Four hundred years ago, the first edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays was published. On a quest to view every known...
Dylan Harris, Adam North and Jasmine Murray appear in the High Court at Auckland in April. Photos / Alex Burton The best of Auckland is west, with its setting sun, its black sand beaches and insane surf. West Auckland is so great. It’s a zone of work and sport, parties...