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It's quite often in defeat that coaches have to dig deep to reconcile their emotions in taking stock of a season.

Sport

Soccer: Taradale bring 2012 champs down to earth

Was it a trip or a shove or both that changed the dynamics of the Central League soccer game yesterday?

Sport

Soccer: Was it a penalty? You be the judge

Deep down Patrick Pilz knows he has what it takes to play at the elite level of soccer in New Zealand.

Sport

German transplant finds comfort zone

It's a simple game basketball, if you ask Otago Nuggets coach Anthony "Alf" Arlidge.

Sport

Alf hunting Hawks for his swan song

Round 3 of the 2013 Central Hockey League took place on a wet Sunday afternoon at Napier's Park Island turf.

Sport

Hockey: Women hold on for tense win

He is, after all, the one if basketball parlance is anything to go by.

Sport

Basketball: Aidan Daly is holding court

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the Pettigrew-Green Arena and the decade of success will be celebrated by hosting the Harlem Globetrotters in May.

News

Stadium marks its 10th year in style

It's likely to give any hotelier in Hawke's Bay a thumping headache. That is, finding a bed for a bloke who is 2.24m tall when lying in a state of rest.

Sport

Basketball: Harlem's big boys hot to trot

Okay so the lean, mean Greene machine was working like clockwork, the Darko Vader made his presence felt and the Prewster potency predictably rose to the surface last night.

Sport

Basketball: Victory adds value

He wasn't going to beat around the bush - Chris McIvor, that is.

Sport

Soccer: Taradale scrape through

It isn't over until it's over, simple as that, never mind how comfortable the margin may appear to be.

Sport

Soccer: Rangers make defending champions sweat

THE MINUTE his flight lands on the tarmac at Hawke's Bay Airport, Paul Henare will know he's home, albeit fleetingly.

Sport

Henare tailors Napier expectation

SO YOU think you know Tab Baldwin.

Sport

A very different Baldwin

EVERY SO often in sport the unimaginable not only becomes plausible but it transcends to the realm of harsh reality.

Sport

Hastings says sense should prevail

RED WINE is the preferred poison for Manawatu Jets coach Mike Kalavros but last night he was simply happy to sip on some diet fizzy while catching up with his good mate Tab Baldwin.

Sport

Jets engine ruffle Hawks' feathers in last gasp win

September 11, 2001, is a day most people will never forget.

Opinion

Editorial: Blasts show we're still vulnerable

It seems the jokes have started well before the opposition have crossed the Manawatu Gorge to play tomorrow night's opening basketball match in Palmerston North.

Sport

Basketball: Opening with a laugh

Three questions come to mind when Darko Cohadarevic packs his bag to play basketball anywhere in the world.

Sport

Basketball: Serb finds hoop heaven

Former Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Peter Russell's Newcastle Falcons are within one win of completing an unbeaten 22-match home-and-away league season ahead of the England Rugby Championship playoffs.

Sport

Rugby: Russell's winning run now almost 30

They both came away with a point each so why were the soccer coaches feeling like their players had short-changed them?

Sport

Soccer: Points of difference

HE METICULOUSLY prepares a brew of mate in a leather-covered, pouch-like vessel, pouring boiling water from a thermos flask through the dried herbal concoction before easing into a comfy chair in the lounge of his Napier flat.

Sport

Argentine feels right at home

I'm going to look on the bright side of a recent Prison Performance Table which said Hawke's Bay Regional Prison was among three prisons "needing improvement".

Opinion

Editorial: Prisoner rehab worth celebrating

With just $1200 in his pocket, Francois Botha boarded a flight from the shores of South Africa for Texas with his wife, Elsje, leaving behind their then 2-year-old son, Marcel.

Sport

Boxing: Buffalo soldiering on

Not providing "real value" in competitions could reduce soccer in Hawke's Bay to a four-club affair, according to Graeme Hill.

Sport

Soccer: Act now or become 'four-club league'

Simon Gordon and Fletch.com were rewarded for their consistency after they placed second in the CIC3* class at the Kihikihi Horse Trials.

Sport

Equestrian: Gordon grabs super league lead

Former Hawke's Bay Magpies rugby coach Peter Russell is a step closer to his first trophy in a so-far-unbeaten debut season in the United Kingdom.

Sport

UK rugby: Russell working wonders

Just 45 minutes into the new season and Napier City Rovers' players, many making their debut, were given a wake-up call that was as fervent as it was unexpected.

Sport

Tirade drives Rovers

The Federation League is "pathetic and a complete waste of time".

Sport

SOCCER: Maycenvale head puts boot into Fed League

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

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