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THE strength of any region's soccer comes from its home-grown talent and a healthy dose of realism before a season kicks off.

Sport

SOCCER: Format under scrutiny

CAR SICKNESS, training, dropping to a league below during the season all sit just fine with Simon Stallard.

Sport

Stallard relishes elite men's play

Only one team from Hawke's Bay will fly the flag in this winter's seven-team Federation League.

Sport

Soccer: Dale to fly Fed flag

There's nothing like a riot of clowns tumbling from quirky cars or a fire-engine foam fight to bring smiles to kids' faces

Motoring

Smiles the real reward

Sport authorities and promoters of the Hawke's Bay Regional Sports Park in Hastings say Napier's plans to build a similar hub at Park Island will not duplicate what's already available or in the pipeline.

News

No duplication seen in hockey plans

Who needs armies and nuclear warheads when a retired NBA star can induce world leaders to meet amicably to settle their differences?

Sport

Kids lose if schools, clubs score own goal

You somehow get the impression Waitakere coach Paul Marshall isn't averse to passive engineering, either.

Sport

Loss gave team a reality check

A HASTINGS school has aborted a soccer plan that some believe was pushing students and their parents to make decisions under duress.

Sport

Hastings school drops plan for club

SCHOOLBOYS should stage mid-week soccer matches to avoid playing two games on Saturday mornings.

Sport

The solution to a crowded season

He was an odd-looking fellow for a Roman Catholic brother.

Sport

Anendra Singh: Herbert lacks beautiful mind

Hawke's Bay Rugby Football Union's revenue dropped by more than $300,000 for the second consecutive year during the 2012 financial year ... but it still avoided the red.

Sport

Rugby: Union avoids the red

A 15-year-old high school students Hawke's Bay couple Ray and Merlyn Jarden had no idea they would some day celebrate 60 years of marriage.

News

Listening is key to 60 happy years

Should the Melbourne Storm win tomorrow's World Club Challenge rugby league clash against Leeds at Headingley teachers at Mayfair School in Hastings had better be prepared.

Sport

League: Harris, pride of Waipatu, hits big time

The flight of the ASB Premiership minor champions arrived 15 minutes late due to mechanical failure but it only delayed the inevitable yesterday.

Sport

Soccer: Waitakere lesson so timely for Bay men

WAS STRIKER Sean Lovemore going to miss the game tomorrow on the foundation of four cumulative yellow cards?

Sport

Bay turn up heat against Dragons

When Ritchie Howard had just turned 4, there was something different, if not peculiar, about him.

Sport

Soccer: Maycenvale dangle Phoenix carrot

Christmas has come and gone, Ryan Nelsen has retired and the Black Caps have been bowled out for 45 runs. It can't get much worse.

Business

Finance: When one door closes, another will open

Gilbert announced a new partnership with the Hawke's Bay Rugby Football Union this week.

Sport

Rugby: Wide ranging Gilbert ball deal for Bay

Injured Hawke's Bay rugby, netball and soccer players were paid out more than $3.6 million in lost wages and rehabilitation fees last year by ACC.

News

ACC pays $3.6m on local cases

New Zealand sevens coach Gordon Tietjens says Hawke's Bay Magpie Gillies Kaka earned his selection after he "excelled" at the nationals.

Sport

Rugby: Kaka's excelled, says Tietjens

On the way out a soccer stalwart, lugging a pile driver but grinning, said: "Those jokers are taking acting lessons in Auckland, aren't they?"

Sport

Soccer: Bay proud of dramatic draw

As the start of the new school year looms and more people are back at work the summer break may seem like a distant memory.

Motoring

How to make a long trip less weary

IT'S A sport that demands riders change a sprocket, jet and ignition on their mechanical beasts in the space of five minutes if they want to hack it at the top level.

Sport

Burping in rider's repertoire

Embattled Hawke's Bay rugby star Zac Guildford could still be turning out for the Magpies despite conduct issues threatening his career with the Canterbury Crusaders.

News

Zac Guildford wanted by Magpies

A booze and gambling-fuelled night ended with All Black Zac Guildford allegedly assaulting a partygoer at a Christchurch house 10 days ago.

News

Guildford 'out of control' at party

Although the section has been on a break, Good Oil never takes time off, or even sleeps.

Motoring

The Good oil: While you were on holiday

CHRISTMAS might have been a little weird and the soccer ground rock hard but Aaron Jones is still loving it here.

Sport

English import at home with United style

For all sense and purpose it was a boys' to men affair in the soccer match played in Napier.

Sport

Soccer: Smith hat trick tames enthusiastic youth side

It has been five months since New Zealand rowers Eric Murray and Hamish Bond won gold at the London Olympics.

News

Training with the stars has rowers aiming high

At 12 years old, Liam Marshall could possibly be the youngest Kiwi kid about to conquer all nine of New Zealand's Great Walks.

News

Liam, 12, tackles final Great Walk

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