When the World Cup-winning New Zealand rugby team returned home, the workers at Auckland Airport welcomed them back to the country with a haka on the runway. The haka is the traditional Maori (New ...

France’s tête-à-tête from the 2007 Rugby World Cup is probably why World Rugby decided to impose that rule about the opposing team standing further away, although it was gloriously spicy ...

Most people have watched the fearsome All Blacks haka - but there are other countries with their own version! Since the original All Black team of 'natives' led by the legendary Joseph Warbrick, the ...

Like the league boys did last week.’ The New Zealand rugby haka was first performed by The Natives, their first representative team, during a 1888-89 tour of Britain and Australia.

According to Maori ethos, Tama-nui-to-ra, the Sun God, had two wives, Hine-raumati, the Summer maid, and Hine takurua, the Winter maid. The child born to him and Hine-raumati was Tane-rore, who is ...

New Zealand has set the world record for the most people to perform the haka, a dance of the country’s indigenous Maori people. The title has been reclaimed from France. The record attempt was ...

Tom Savage is trying to explain a career trajectory that resembles something close to the 1990s TV Show Quantum Leap where ...

Hurzeler, who likes to keep his sporting horizons broad, has spoken about the balance between being motivated and maintaining an ice-cool head . The balance between the red zone and the blue. And a ...