When North Korea's ice hockey team arrived in Auckland for an international tournament carrying battered wooden sticks, organisers stepped in to provide high-tech carbon fibre equipment. But they had ...

I only have to drive past a school playing field to develop a nervous twitch. Dreadful memories of the days when, decked out in thigh-length gym skirt and thin cotton top and clutching a battered ...

Bermuda's young field hockey players were given a harsh lesson on how the game should be played in the Junior Pan-American Under-21 World Cup Qualifiers which took place in Mexico City recently. In ...

IT'S jolly hockey sticks and gym slips at the ready for the first West Malvern Players performance in almost a decade - a play about a 1930s girls' boarding school. The re-formed group's rendition of ...

ST Bede's Middle School's girls under 13 hockey players had to defeat both tough opposition and the appalling weather to become district champions at the end of January. The Holloway Lane Middle ...

More than 40 youngsters took part in an under-13 boys' hockey tournament at Thornton Grammar School Sports and Science College. And the hosts triumphed, with Carlton Bolling College finishing second ...

The National Hockey League (NHL) has always been the runt of the four major sports leagues in the United States, after baseball, football and basketball. Even so, on October 8th it opened its 2003-04 ...