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Yes, yes it is. My very first Basketball  game  I attended was in 1983, I hopped on my little Raleigh 20 and biked to the game, and fell in love with the sport. Little did I know that New Zealand also would end up loving the sport. The following few years, our little arenas would be packed out for every game, those with season tickets (like myself) were lucky, the Canterbury Rams would end up virtually selling out every game over a three year period. The imports were the stars, Clyde the Glide Huntly shooting from the outside, the big men like Ben Antony, Willie Burton, players like  Ronnie Joyner Kenny Perkins, Kerry Bogani, Kenny McFadden, wowed the crowds, as fans couldn't contain their excitement. Our own Kiwi players soon became stars, John and Stan Hill,  Dutchie  Radermakers, Bert Knops and the great Gilbert Gordon. Then the TV coverage started to happen, highlight packages on a  Sunday sports show, Live coverage of the final, kiwis started to notice...

Meet 2018's version of Brendan Telfer, her name is Dana Johannsen, she used to be nzherald's main sports reporter she is now with Fairfax's  stuff's  website. If you would like to compare her to any other Journo, Brendan Telfer would be the one, like Brendan Telfer she has a history of lying about certain sports, and totally ignoring others. Bredan Telfer was the Journo who loved to tell the NZ public that Netball was this global sport. He loved to mock League calling the league world cup worthless, while cheering on any world cup victory in Netball, he would state Rugby is huge, league is nothing, yet wouldn't make the true comparison  with Netball and Basketball. Today stuff's, Dana Johannsen did this piece on how Netball which has long been the number one sport for girls is under threat from other sports, Rugby in particular, but she mentioned other sports as well are challenging Netball in New Zealand for girls. Yet, she didnt mention the main threat and tha...

Dear TVNZ sports Journalists. I understand you will be sending a full team to cover the Olympics, even though Sky has the rights to show the events. I hope Andrew Saville and Jack Tame, cover the Olympics with the respect it deserves, and more so, with accurate reporting on what the world's media is focused on. Here is what the public doesnt want to see and hear. Please don't lie and tell us that the Rugby Sevens is the most popular sport in the Olympics. Please don't lie and say it's Rugby mania in the Olympic village, and the Sevens player's are the world's superstars. Please don't lie and say, Usain Bolt, Kevin Durant, Michael Phelps and the other International sports stars are in awe of the New Zealand sevens team. Please don't lie and say, most the world's media is focused on Rugby and nothing else. If your interviewing a Kiwi Cyclist, a rower, a swimmer, our track and field team, please ask them questions about THEIR events, not if they saw the...

The New Zealand rugby team. A.K.A  the All Blacks for the color of their uniform, won team of the year at the Laureus World Sport Awards. This is the worst possible thing that could happen to New Zealand sport. What this is done, has given false credence to the myth that Rugby and the All Blacks are this global sporting Giant that the world loves, admires and has even heard of. What the New Zealand sporting media hasn't told the public, is that a good majority of the Judges are Ex Rugby Union players based in Europe. They also haven't told the public that, previous winners have included  The South African Rugby Team and The English Rugby Team, and previous nominees have included The Australian Netball Team, The Australian Cricket Team and The Australian Rugby Team. So why is bad?? It's bad because the media in New Zealand will now absolutely rammed down the public's throat that the All Blacks are known as the greatest sporting team on the planet, that supersedes any oth...

 (This Blog post was inspired by a piece that Simon Sweetman did over at Stuff's webpage.) I dont follow field Hockey, but I dont dislike the sport and its fans I dont follow Netball but I dont dislike the sport and the fans. I dont follow Tennis, golf, and motor sport but I dont dislike the sport and the fans.  Same cant be said for rugby. In my 40 odd years on earth, I have never meet a bunch of sports fans that are so so so precious about other sports, that have such a chip on their shoulder, when it comes to people who choose to follow another sport. If I hear "Whats the matter, did a rugby player steal your girlfriend", I will scream.  I Have never had a League fan question me, why I love Basketball. I have never had a soccer fan question me, why I love basketball I have never had a cricket fan question me, why I love Basketball. Etc Etc Etc. But Rugby fans seem to think there must be a reason or an incident for why someone doesnt think their Rugby is the gr...