The stage is set for an intriguing battle for Ardie Savea's services

The All Blacks and Hurricanes flanker has doubled down on pondering a code switch to rugby league on TAB's Staf Chat podcast today.



and The new All Black coaching team are continuing their early season visits to the franchises.

Scrum coach Greg Feek was an active participant in the Chiefs scrum session today.



Tall Blacks and Breakers centre Rob Loe has linked up with the Paul Henare coached Kagawa Five Arrows in Japan's second division basketball league.

With three games scheduled a week, Loe is expecting a heavy workload.



Little surprise from Malcolm Hicks over his latest achievement.

The Kiwi marathon runner broke his personal best and the automatic Olympic qualifying mark in Spain over the weekend and says he it's nice to have it all come together.