Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The Boxing New Zealand National Championships, to be held in Christchurch, October 2-5 2024, date back 122 years, to the first titles in Christchurch during September... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site was described as simply 'Tauranga'. From January... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I often wonder about people reading this column. That's you, obviously. Mainly I wonder what you want to read about? Today the plan is to revisit Loserpalooza, the... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Supermarkets love me. Because I'm an undisciplined shopping spinner. I don't see supermarkets as food emporiums, but rather entertainment. I can spend a thoroughly enjoyable hour browsing... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The arrival of the 2024-25 New Zealand Cricket season opens a new chapter for two local young men, who learned the fundamentals of the great game on the Western Bay of... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Toot toot, wave wave, bye bye! I'm about to jump aboard the great International Olympic gravy train. With luck, and a lick of cunning, you may see me in LAX in '28 presenting a medal for one... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz We often hear about things that are the 'centre of the community”. Schools are often said to be the centre of the community, and post offices; the library, or... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The weekend brought extremely sad news for thoroughbred racing followers worldwide with the news that Australian super mare Black Caviar had passed to horse heaven. Awarded... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder ENSO and IOD neutral, SAM strongly negative (From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology) The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) are currently neutral,... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny I have been squeezed. As you can see. Not in a loving way. More a commercial imperative. But that's okay - Jim Bunny's quite chuffed than Spanbild wants to share his burrow on Page 2. I feel... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz My desire to spontaneously sing 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' is always just a whim away. Ta da! And another: My girlfriend told me she's never seen the film 'Gaslight'. I... Read More