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Sir John Graham
Sportsman, Master, Mentor

By Bill Francis

He prickled Cabinet ministers, told rugby officials where they were going wrong, wouldn’t appoint female teachers to his staff at Auckland Grammar and, though he had been an All Black captain, refused to attend matches during the 1981 Springbok tour. This is just a taste of the extraordinary life of Sir John Graham.

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The A-Z of Meads
Yarns, facts and fallacies about a New Zealand rugby legend.

.By Keith Quinn

Sir Colin Meads continues to fascinate the New Zealand sports public. New Zealand’s Rugby Player of the Century is now a vastly popular public speaker. Forty years after he retired from international rugby, his popularity is greater than ever, and stories about him grow in the re-telling.

My Sports Hero

By Wynne Gray

In researching My Sports Hero, Auckland journalist and author Wynne Gray has spoken to more than 100 prominent New Zealanders and asked them who their sports hero was, and why.




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Tom Lowry
Leader in a Thousand

By Bill Francis

Described as the greatest character (and also possibly the richest) in New Zealand cricket history, Tom Lowry remains a seminal figure in the development of our national summer sport.


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