Gaming & Sports

The small town boxing gym helping at-risk teens

This Porirua gym is punching above its weight in the big heart range. Meet the team at the local boxing club that's changing the lives of…

Three generations of Speedway

From grandaughter to grandad, this family's love for Speedway is as infinite as the tyre marks around the track ?

Are women's sport uniforms sexist?

Some sports still have rules stating women have to wear skirts when competing. Are these regulations archaic or just part of the game?

The most disgraceful bowl in cricketing history

Sir Robert Muldoon described it as an "act of true cowardice" - we look back at the event that had the cricketing world shook ?

Esports has a new home in the Sky Tower

We ventured into a donut-shaped hallway 10 metres above the footpath to visit the new LetsPlay.Live studio in Tāmaki Makaurau's Sky Tower ???

This is biomimicry

Cheetah-claw shoes and shark-skin swimsuits? Welcome to the world of biomimicry - sporting design that looks to nature for inspiration ???

Did you know NZ has a national handball team?

Handball...it's sort of a mashup between basketball, football and netball. This little-known sport is on the up in Aotearoa, with Kiwi teams beginning to compete all…

What does a fist in the face feel like?

Ahead of his trip to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, we caught up with 22 year old David Nyika about how he got into boxing…

Contact Sport

In their song-turned-sports-anthem 'Tubthumping', Chumbawamba famously said "I get knocked down, but I get up again" - sadly, that's not always the case. We take a…