Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Knowing when you have reached your use-by date in sport, is a fine-line between retirement at the top end of a sporting career and hanging on to illusions of past success,... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny We called him ‘Mal'…short for ‘Malingerer' or ‘Malady' or ‘Mal-adjusted'. ‘Mal' because he was always throwing ‘sickies'. He wore these labels shamelessly. ‘Sickies'... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz It must be tough to be an MP: people just insist on making fun of you. Take our embattled local representative Sam Uffindell. Talk about not being able to... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Here's a local sports trivia question to open this week's column. What sporting event took place in Tauranga last weekend, where the participants wore fashionable... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is a standardized index based on the observed sea level pressure differences between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia. The SOI is a leading measure of the... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz There's a lot coming up in the next fortnight: we'll start by going back to school. Not really, since the Tauranga Boys' College's Big Band Fundraising Tea Dance isn't... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Lots of introspection, lots of self-reflection up and down the land this week. Blokes stopping to examine division of labour in the home. What men do, what they don't do, what they could... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The lens of time provide the rightful place for sporting feats that are too big to comprehend in the immediate outcome of their achievement, because of their magnitude. With... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book "Climate Change: A Realistic Perspective". In Chapter 12 on "Energy" the topics covered... Read More

DEMOCRACY HQ: A Personal view with Steve Morris Tauranga has lost a dose of common sense with the passing of former city councillor Bill Faulkner. First elected in 1983, Bill served eight non-consecutive terms during... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I learnt something from ‘Brokenwood' the other night; it's nice when the telly offers a side-order of education. There's something about ‘Brokenwood... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'O jogo bonito!” said the The Doe. Pardon? 'Futbol, le foot, football - o jogo bonito! The beautiful game.” What on earth? 'Edson Arantes do Nascimento - ‘Pele', they're... Read More