Home sweet home

Posted on 3rd Apr 2012 15:11 | By Anonymous Author

2012 Olympicswith Ella NicholasCanoe slalom athlete After six weeks of fantastic white water training, some sunshine and a lot of rain in Australia I finally headed back to Tauranga. The last few weeks in Aussie were gruelling, my coach had me working very hard and I ended up with some minor injuries, a vast improvement in technique and some...

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Mixed emotions as David Tua retires

Posted on 29th Mar 2012 15:40 | By Anonymous Author

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The retirement of David Tua in the last few days has brought Sideline Sid a real mixture of thoughts and emotions. I first laid eyes on David in 1988 at the (then) Otumoetai Trust Hotel, where he fought in an amateur boxing tournament. While he was only fifteen in his first bout in...

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Sunshine wins in cricket times

Posted on 20th Mar 2012 11:49 | By Anonymous Author

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sidline Sid’s definition of an optimist is anyone who buys tickets to the last two days of a Black Caps test match. On Thursday, the old fella fired up the Sidmobile to journey over the hills to Hamilton, full of anticipation of a good performance from the New Zealand team against...

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Lifesavers travel in style

Posted on 14th Mar 2012 16:31 | By Anonymous Author

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz While the competitors in the National Surf Lifesaving championships, which start in Gisborne on Thursday, will travel and stay in modern vehicles and accommodation – this wasn’t always the case. Sidline Sid has stashed away in one of his sporting treasure troves, a copy...

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Triple cause for cricket glory

Posted on 7th Mar 2012 11:09 | By Anonymous Author

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz There was a heap of after match celebrating from the Bay of Plenty representative cricket side at the Bay Oval last Sunday after lifting aloft the Fergus Hickey Rosebowl in triumph. However, the season-long victory that climaxed in the defeat of Hamilton was built upon adversity,...

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Only 300 training sessions to go

Posted on 6th Mar 2012 08:20 | By Anonymous Author

2012 Olympicswith Ella NicholasCanoe slalom athlete “150 days and over 300 training sessions to go until you are racing at the Olympics Ella.” This is what my coach told me yesterday as I prepared for yet another training session. He also suggested it could be fun to count down the training sessions from 300 as I went. I told him...

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Frigging in the rigging, Rena and Xena

Posted on 2nd Mar 2012 12:19 | By Anonymous Author

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Double standards of the Rainbow Warrior Princess. It’s been a big week for Derrick of New Plymouth. He had Lucy Lawless clinging to him. At least that what I read in a newspaper. It’s not every day that a big star shows up for a bit of hypocritical grandstanding. Xena, after her recent...

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The Growth Religion

Posted on 2nd Mar 2012 10:53 | By Anonymous Author

Ian McLeanSpokesperson for the Green Party The Tauranga monthly film group recently showed “Growthbusters”, the story of one man’s fight against the prophet Growth. Set in Colorado, the film documents the effects on a small town of determined growth: four-lane highways, air pollution, community breakdown, increasing taxes, and...

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Bay cricket – 80 years to celebrate

Posted on 29th Feb 2012 12:40 | By Anonymous Author

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz A big occasion in Bay of Plenty Cricket takes place this weekend when the Bay celebrates 80 years of representative cricket. Things were very different in the country when the first Bay of Plenty cricket team walked out onto Seddon Park in Hamilton for their first match on March 28,...

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Gaining confidence to achieve goals

Posted on 28th Feb 2012 08:17 | By Anonymous Author

Martial Musingswith Grant Buchanan of Mile HighKarate and Youngforest Tai Chi We all want the best for our children. How can we build that unflappable confidence, focus and “go get ‘em” attitude that will lead to success in their lives. Well many have turned to Martial Arts in search of just those things. What I have found...

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