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The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025

On Thursday night the BBC will honour the heroes. But here are the year’s best dark, devious and downright dumb sporting stories

The Guardian - UK

Woodman-Wickliffe breaks New Zealand try record in World Cup cruise against Japan

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe scored her 50th try in 30 Tests in New Zealand’s 62-19 World Cup win against Japan, surpassing Doug Howlett’s 49

The Guardian - UK

‘I still feel a part of my team’: Ruby Tui on starring as a TV pundit after her Black Ferns omission

Left out of New Zealand’s Women’s Rugby World Cup squad, the serial champion is impressing on TV instead

The Guardian - UK

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Be brave: Black Ferns’ key message for Women’s Rugby World Cup defence

Six-times champions are aiming to play with courage as they seek to defend the title they won at home in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Ruby Tui: ‘I was trying to grow women’s rugby – I had no idea the effect my story would have’

The Rugby World Cup winner tells Donald McRae about her journey from a traumatic childhood haunted by domestic violence and alcoholism to being a Black Ferns superstar

The Guardian - UK

As the Women’s Rugby World Cup Kicks Off – 6 Talented and Inspiration Female Athletes to Watch, Support and Follow

It's set to be one to watch - here, RW Editor Joseph Robinson shares the other up-and-coming athletes you'll want to know about this year.

Marie Claire

Black Ferns, Red Roses, red cards and red faces

Rugby writer Adam Julian sums up the first Women's XV international tournament - and examines how the Black Ferns find themselves once again so far behind England

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'You can’t speak what you can’t hear' – how Māori and Pacific sports stars are helping revitalise vulnerable languages

We’re becoming more used to hearing and seeing te reo Māori in everyday use these days. And Pacific languages are becoming increasingly familiar too – especially during the Pacific language weeks now under way.

The Conversation

Ruby Tui: New Zealand Black Ferns star to play Premier Rugby Sevens in US

World Cup and Olympic champion will compete in multi-city professional event climaxing in Washington DC in August

The Guardian - US

What Bunting wants to create for Black Ferns

The new coach guiding the Black Ferns, Allan Bunting, has a sit-down chat with Alice Soper on the environment he's trying to create, closing the yawning gap for women's rugby and what's next for Ruby Tui.

Newsroom.co.nz

Where is she now? Mere Baker

The Black Ferns successfully returned to the Hong Kong Sevens last weekend, after a 22-year absence. Yet another band of Kiwi women kept the flag flying - among them, Mere Baker, who'd become a World Cup champion and a world-renowned sevens coach.

Newsroom.co.nz

This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias.

Newsroom.co.nz

Best bestseller: Ruby

A Q+A with Margie Thomson, ghostwriter of Straight Up by Ruby Tui, the best bestseller of 2020

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Ka pai: the 2022 ReadingRoom literary awards

ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias celebrates the best things in New Zealand writing this year

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Sport's best 22 from 2022

From podiums, to pay parity, paddle wars to poi, 2022 has been quite a year for our sportswomen. LockerRoom writer Sarah Cowley Ross lines up her 22 highlights.

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This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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The Best in Black Awards

After a fantastic year for the world champion Black Ferns, and one that finished with six consecutive wins and a draw for the All Blacks, Jim Kayes looks at who performed the best in black.

The Guardian - AU

Seeing, hearing, feeling Māori: the night New Zealand won more than a rugby match

The Women’s Rugby World Cup was a milestone for seeing Māori culture and worldview deeply embedded in Aotearoa’s national identity

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Jo Cribb: 'We’ve actually all just changed history – let’s frickin’ go'

Ruby Tui and the Black Ferns remind us that while we have come a long way in our celebration of women athletes, there is still some way to go.

The Guardian - AU

‘Come together as one’: Black Ferns’ World Cup triumph unites nation

New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup victory was a fitting end to a tournament that has sparked new fever for the women’s game

Newsroom.co.nz

Black Ferns the answer to every NZ rugby question

Leading rugby writer and broadcaster Jim Kayes says NZ Rugby cannot ignore the vitality and commercial appeal of the Black Ferns any longer - and things must change

Newsroom.co.nz

Sensations of a sublime World Cup final

It was a World Cup triumph that overwhelmed Eden Park with a psychedelic, sensory overload. Suzanne McFadden was there for NZ's night of nights.

The Guardian - AU

Fast, brutal and a sense of joy: how women’s rugby is winning over New Zealand

With sellout crowds and a spot in the World Cup final, New Zealand’s Black Ferns are bringing new fans to the sport

The Guardian - UK

Women’s Rugby World Cup final: your guide to New Zealand v England

The Red Roses face the defending champions and hosts, the Black Ferns, at Eden Park – can they justify their status as favourites?

Evening Standard

England in perfect position for New Zealand World Cup final as fearless Red Roses bank on experience

The Black Ferns will bring home advantage, a sold-out Eden Park and everything wrapped up in New Zealand’s rugby mystique.

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