This week's awkward questions
This week's awkward questions
The World Cup has wrecked your 'stay fit over winter' plans, hasn't it?
Is LeBron your favourite Los Angeles Laker since Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
Can you name another Los Angeles Laker since Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
Have you put your money where your tweets are and got your BLACKCAPS coach application in yet?
Does Neymar practise his diving in his hotel room? The pool? The car park?
How's former NZ Football CEO Andy Martin's retirement going?
Don't Chris Froome's four Tour de France titles show asthma is no barrier to elite sporting achievement with the right medication and Therapeutic Use Exemptions?
Is this the Blues' week?
Putin has sorted it so Russia are going to win the World Cup, aren't they?
Thanks for reading - Richard
The week's best NZ sport writing
The unlikely story of the 1968 Olympic gold medal-winning coxed four, New Zealand's first rowing medal [noted.co.nz]
Sophie Devine is playing with a new perspective, smashing records and helping her White Ferns team mates become better players [Locker Room]
NZ Football CEO's sudden and complete disappearance means fans have plenty of questions, that will take a while to answer [stuff.co.nz]
Joel Kulasingham notes that SKY's Joseph Parker documentary had the unintended consequence of making you quite frustrated with SKY [NZ Herald]
Video nasty
Olympic freeskier Fabian Bösch shows you don't need to stand on an escalator to ride up an escolator and that.
Long read
Terrific read on diving in football and how it winds up football fans everywhere, but is still a key part of some teams' culture.
Selected weekend fixtures
Set the alarm, it's Uruguay v France at 2am and Brazil v Belgium at 6am tomorrow (these two are on Prime), and Sweden v England at 2am and Russia v Croatia at 6am Sunday in the World Cup, it's all on SKY
Crusaders v Highlanders tonight at 7.35pm, with Chiefs v Brumbies at 5.15pm and Hurricanes v Blues at 7.35pm tomorrow night, all on SKY
Catch a replay of the last two hours of Tour de France stage one at 6am Sunday on SKY. If you're not watching football and that
The first England v White Ferns ODI is at 10pm Saturday on SKY
Bring back the gif
When you are Neymar and things keep happening to you.
