NZPA Correspondent

Sydney, March 19 NZPA - New Zealand made a successful start to the Adelaide leg of the International Rugby Board sevens world series by beating Scotland 31-0 tonight.

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Sydney, March 19 NZPA - New Zealand Breakers guard Kirk Penney has been named in the Australian National Basketball League's All-NBL first team for a third time.

By Mark Geenty of NZPA

Wellington, March 19 NZPA - Michael Clarke soaked up a standing Basin Reserve ovation then doffed his cap to his ex-fiancee as he ground New Zealand's bowlers into submission in the first cricket test here today.

Vodafone Warriors winger Manu Vatuvei takes one of the NRL's hottest try-scoring streaks into the club's first home game of the 2010 season against Cronulla at Mount Smart Stadium tomorrow night.

NZPA Correspondent

Sydney, March 19 NZPA - Shane Cameron's comeback to professional boxing effectively starts in Wellington next month after a bout with John Hopoate last night ended in a hasty disqualification for the lumbering former rugby league star.

Wellingtonians 'Absolutely Positively' love their city, New Zealanders have been invited to 'Have a Love Affair' with and spoil themselves in the capital and now Australians are about to find out 'There's No Place Like Wellington'.

SYDNEY, Mar. 18 /PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet/ --

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By Mark Geenty of NZPA

Wellington, March 18 NZPA - It doesn't bode well when Australia's cricketers say they don't want to leave Wellington.

Wellington, March 18 NZPA - A month ago they were breathing in the rarefied air associated with a position on the upper reaches of rugby's Super 14 ladder.

Now the Hurricanes appear in danger of wheezing at altitude on South Africa's high veld.

Today's official opening of the Kupe Gas Project by the New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, demonstrates the important role of the project in helping to secure New Zealand's gas supply needs.