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A definitive ranking of all the Black Caps’ ODI shirts: now updated for 2019
After the Black Caps’ victory over Sri Lanka in their first match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Calum Henderson has made an important update to his ranking of every New Zealand ODI shirt. Has any...
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A quest to find New Zealand’s most crack up celebrity chef
Calum Henderson reckons New Zealand has the most celebrity chefs per capita. Here, he tries to find the funniest. There are few things I love more in this life than taking a celebrity chef’s name in...
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The 10 most thrilling backdrops of the NZ parliament chez Zoom
Just like the rest of us, it turns out our elected representatives have a lot of weird stuff in their homes and offices. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning for the past four weeks, members...
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The different types of cricket match, ranked
As South Africa prepares to unleash a confusing new three-team version of cricket on the world, it’s time to settle once and for all: which cricket format is the best?Cricket is a sport steeped in...
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An incomplete guide to the weird TV genius of Orlando Stewart
From 2005’s Wayne Anderson: Singer of Songs to new Tom Sainsbury comedy Sextortion, via a dead peacock, a trio of escaped circus lions and a sentimental wrist wallet: Calum Henderson pays tribute to...
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All 63 times Mike Hosking’s life was perfect
Between 2009 and 2014, New Zealand’s top-rating breakfast radio host published a serialised ode to life’s simple pleasures on Twitter. We pay tribute to ‘Life is Perfect’, an unheralded literary...
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How Tuariki Delamere’s somersault turned the sport of long jump on its head
In the 1970s, a young New Zealand athlete introduced the world to a radical new long jump technique. But unlike high jumper Dick Fosbury and the Fosbury Flop, the Delamere Flip never got off the...
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When Chris Warner met Alf Stewart
Australia Week: What happens when you get two trans-Tasman soap immortals together in the same room? We found out in 2016.To mark the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble, The Spinoff is casting an eye...
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Bouncer’s dream is still Australia’s greatest TV moment
Australia Week: Calum Henderson looks back on the pinnacle of Australian television: the time a dog had a dream on Neighbours. To mark the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble, The Spinoff is casting an...
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Everything you always wanted to know about waterbeds but were afraid to ask
Sleep Week: Were they a health fad? A sex thing? And why did my parents get one in the 90s? Calum Henderson investigates. All week, The Spinoff is tossing and turning through a range of perspectives on...
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