Sitemap - 2022 - The Bounce

See ya later MMXXII, it's been grouse

A mostly Merry Xmas

Picture perfect

Beauden Barrett: 'I never asked for special treatment'

The spark has gone

O captain! My captain!

Plenty to get upset about

A long Week That Was...

Sport v Art is not a war we ever asked for

Ben and Baz break things

A weird year finally in the rearview

Cricket's precarious toehold on summer

How to save Auckland’s stadium shemozzle

Hey, at least we're not Wales

Sunday special: Triskaidekaphobia

It's exams season - Foster seeking pass mark

Guptill left at the bottom of the toybox

The hard work starts now

More than a million reasons to love this RWC

NZ’s tournament consistency is bonkers

SUNDAY SPECIAL: Heart-stopping fun

Concussion conference hits headwinds

A (partial) defence of the ship steadier

About Schmidt, the kingmaker

Clash of the Code

Remembering Sam Doyle

Schools stop playing for the cameras

VIPs and other very important things

LABOUR DAY SPECIAL: Where did that come from?

The Bounce: Brought to you by my own renewable energy

The 'mystery' of the missing All Black

Worlds of opportunities

It's Feedback Friday!

The Strike Weapons of '98

Conway strikes the right tempo

RWC starts with both a bang and a long shadow

'The science is evolving...'

Following the White Ferns might end me, but what a way to go

Penrith dynasty hands Warriors a blueprint

Isaac Ross: A letter to my mother - Black Fern #14

The unappreciated brilliance of authenticity

A football writer writes

BLED CUP SPECIAL: Are you happy now?

Will some media tell the ASB Classic to get stuffed?

Aussies milking the drama like clockwork

What madness was this!?

Letter to Ezra, Pt II

Letter to Ezra, Pt I

Batting under the gun after horror tour

One last 'yahoo' around the Grand Old Lady of fast things

A team that mirrors its captain

The Bounce has a birthday!

No such word as 'unassailable' at the Warriors

FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL: ABs battling to exit no-win territory

The Tall Blacks are really good - someone should let Basketball NZ know

See ya 'Big Man', it was fun while it lasted

A pot-holed history of NZ's stadium woes

Don't look back in anger

SUNDAY SPECIAL: The ABs are not very good

Normal service resumes, sadly

Allen key to opening up Australia

Grounds for complaint

A funny thing happened last night

Crouch, pause... now re-engage

Black Caps lacking a shot of adrenaline

'It’s kind of torture to have to watch the show’

One last hurrah?

Taylor offers up a teachable moment

Fast Eddie Jones enters the class war

Hail to the Chief

SUNDAY SPECIAL: Foster's mulligan

A quick question that needs to be answered

Heath Davis: A hidden treasure

Twenty-three reckons from an armchair weekend

Shag piles on - and rewrites history

A week of headaches for contact sport

A lost opportunity

There Will Be Blood (just not right now)

Comms 101: How not to react to a loss

The long and short of weekend sport

Sunday special: Chaos reigns as media cancelled

The Big Interview: 'That's a great question!'

Fixing our troubled stadium fleet

Brace yourself, things just got interesting

ABs post-mortem special

The system always wins

Postie delivers a big deal for rugby

Eden Park v Mt Smart Stadium

Welcome home, it's nice to see you

Can Barrett save us from the Gib crisis?

It's true - there are June tests to savour

A lament for the spinners

Ruth-less pursuit of excellence

Notes from Headingley #2

To lead or not to lead

If in doubt... double down

Thoughts from a hot-and-cold SR final

FIGHT! NZR, RA and revenge served cold

Plucky, unlucky and... wasteful?

Notes from Trent Bridge #4

A good news, Brad news scenario

Notes from Trent Bridge #2

NOTES FROM TRENT BRIDGE #1

Playing for keeps: the battle for golf's soul

Roll up, Roll up!

Queen's Birthday Special

NOTES FROM LORD'S #3

NOTES FROM LORD’S #2

Madness reigns at the Home of Cricket

All Black sale day is upon us!

Face it, we're all to blame for Lodge's exit

Chasing Amy away

When Steve Kerr said what we're all feeling

Ordinary people make bad Warriors

Closed-shop start to new era of transparency

EXCLUSIVE: New government agency to oversee athlete welfare

It's not about the bikes

Pining for the Walker bros

Baz will brush aside doubters

If you build it, will they come?

A weekend of slippery storylines

A timely Taylor-made message for NZR

Notes from the Black Caps squad naming

The 'Tahs beat the Crusaders and other weird happenings

A Broken Record

Dazed and confused Warriors left reeling

Angst builds as pivotal cycling review nears publication

Barrett's red mist a growing liability

An overly emotional Week That Was

What the Black Ferns fallout really revealed

Savea makes a big noise after being left speechless

Blues did right by not seeing red over Caleb

I am Tiger, hear me roar

Ross Taylor, so much more than a numbers man

Pitch perfect: The unbreakable Australians

Don't look now, but the All Whites are good and are going to get even better

Going, going... gone

Auld Mug in Barca, 48-team World Cups and other dumb ideas

The sporting weekend with something for everyone

Big Sport forced to confront its relationship with concussion 'science'

The difficult art of going out on a high

Agony for White Ferns, but reset is overdue

'We now have a meaningless comp'

Omicron has bitten into Super Rugby and we're shocked!

When it feels like déjà vu all over again

The return of the prodigal son and hopes of a Warriors masterpiece

Rise up! Rugby takes a giant leap forward

Some sizzle in the drizzle

The loss of Warney leads a WTF weekend

The CTE sports wall of denial is crumbling

Will sport turning its back on Russia help?

Notes from (north of) the Oval #15

Notes from (north of) the Oval #14

Full credit: Rugby was the winner

Notes from the Oval #13

Notes from (north of) the Oval #12

The wait for RTS is nearly over

The Covid edition

Footy's back, but a wee way south of Super

Notes from (north of) The Oval #10

So it turned out that selling 12.5% of the national sport wasn't actually the greatest deal the world had ever seen

Notes from (north of) The Oval #8

Summer restarts tomorrow - footy a day later

An Olympics to forget (apart from Zoi)

A Fox in the hole

THE 'BIG O': Hugh McGahan remembers a legend

The Money Issue

The newsletter that woke up in a bad mood

When respect is one-way street

Can long Ireland tour get rugby in the black?

Winter comes early

Ko is back (even if she never really left us)

Rugby's bubbling beer conundrum

Bond breaks: Is legend about to put down his oar?

Whisper it, CTE and spot-fixing are still with us

Trying to find meaning in the hit and giggle

The newsletter with no news

The transgender participation debate is going nowhere - sports leaders must lead

The rights (and wrong) of Wood's big move

Notes from (near) the Oval #7

Game, set, but not yet match for Djokovic

Ace arrived in Melbourne - but Aussies had a Djoker to play

Notes from (near) the Oval #5

Notes from the Oval #4

Could MIQ KO Proteas tour?

Notes from the Oval #2

Notes from the Oval #1