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It’s 30 years since the All Blacks last played a test in South Africa – and only 56 years since Māori and Pacific players were first allowed to tour there.
For the All Blacks, the next coaching era may hinge less on tactics than on trust, culture and leadership style.
Cricket Australia is the latest major Australian sport to ponder private equity investment. What are the pros and cons?
A conflict resolution expert – and rugby fan – explains how the game can restore spectacle and avoid farcical and dangerous mismatches due to players being sent off.
Rugby players risk serious injury due to the game’s sheer physicality. Sports scientists have worked with international rugby bodies to improve safety.
The Rugby World Cup kicks off this weekend with hosts France playing New Zealand. Here’s why the All Blacks are still favourites to win the tournament, despite not being the official top team.
If the All Blacks again fail to fire against Australia in the first Bledisloe Test, perhaps the game’s administrators should take advice from another group of experts entirely.
At least half of Australians and New Zealanders in a recent study believed in one major conspiracy theory.
How sports coaches can inspire their team to defy the odds and win.
South Africans supporting visiting New Zealand rugby teams took root in a tumultuous time as an expression of defiance against apartheid.
Sport has a mental health problem, but rugby might have the answer.
Taking on the All Blacks is a daunting task – but there is hope for the visitors.
All Blacks legend, Jonah Lomu, suffered from nephrotic syndrome for most of his adult life. Here is what we know about the rare condition.
Controversial refereeing decisions dogged the later stages of the last couple of World Cups. Little wonder that teams are doing their homework on officials like never before.
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Lecturer in Sport Management and Sport Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand; University of Southern Queensland
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Senior clinical lecturer in nephrology, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Canterbury
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Principal Lecturer in Athlete Mental Health, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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adjunct professor, School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Otago
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Winchester
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Honourary Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Clive Thompson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Ngā Wai a Te Tūī (Maori and Indigenous Research Centre) and School of Healthcare and Social Practice, UNITEC Institute of Technology