Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Tauranga Boxing Club fighter Hannah Walker has brought home further accolades at the Boxing New Zealand National Championships. The biggest prizes in NZ amateur boxing... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Don't want to be an All Black when I grow up now. Not now. The resetting of a reset rugby scrum doesn't thrill anymore. Nor does wedging face between two ample buttocks of forged steel for... Read More

A message from Mayor Mahé with Mahé Drysdale Last month's hugely successful Zespri AIMS Games and the recent confirmation Bay Oval will be activated through cricket and concerts during summer emphasise the... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz To Spotify or not to Spotify? That is the question. It's a discussion I've had with more than a few musicians this week, since Tiki Taane and others pulled their music... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid As I pen my weekly sports blog this week, three small groups of the best boxers in the Western Bay of Plenty are on their way to the big dance of amateur boxing in this... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Following the death of my sister Valerie in 2001, I wrote the hymn 'There is season” (based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) which used the hymn tune 'Sandon". This was followed in 2006 when... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Their problem is our problem. Or ours, theirs. British jails are chocka full of villains, scumbags, miscreants and sleazeballs, scoundrels, jerks, riff-raff and low-life's. They don't know... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Let's start where we left off last week, with BB & The Bullets. The blues-rock trio has released their debut album 'High Tide', recorded at the Whanganui studio singer-songwriter-guitarist... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Life can be like a bag of mixed lollies - you never know what you are going to get when you dip your hand into the bag. All week, I couldn't wait for last Saturday... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny When you put yourself out there every week writing stories, expressing views with the noble intention of informing, educating or entertaining you are, at times, bound to draw hostile return... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz There are new local music releases, and things approaching fast - let's look backwards and forwards in part one of two. A couple of bands I mentioned last week have... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid A further link to Muhammad Ali was lost last week with the passing of Joe Bugner on the Gold Coast. He was 75 years old. While Bugner is best remembered for his... Read More