Category Archives: Announcements

Run Out Groove

It’s been a couple of days now since I got the phone call from Sam, announcing that the forthcoming issue of Real Groove was to be its last. It’s being spun as a merger with its sister weekly publication The … Continue reading

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Live Blog: Q+A Super City Mayoralty Debate

DeadBall is going to Live Blog the Super City Mayoralty debate.Williams vs Banks vs Brown. And we’re off. Holmes-y is in the big chair, and he’s pretty fired up. Hasn’t really mentioned the debate, he’s much more excited about the … Continue reading

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Giving Doug Golightly the Red Card

Doug Golightly, long the best excuse for sleeping til the afternoon on a Saturday morning, has now extended his monumental dull-wittedness into some new media, being appointed editor of Sky Sport: The Magazine. Full disclosure: Until very recently I was … Continue reading

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New Zealand's Next Top Model Finale Recap Thing

The finale (read our scrappy liveblog here) was more of an elaborate coronation ceremony for Christobelle than any form of competition. It seemed pretty clear from very early on in the series that when it came to temperament, talent and … Continue reading

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COMING TONIGHT! Liveblogging the NZNTM Finale

By actual popular demand we’ll be liveblogging every minute of the finale of NZNTM tonight, with some contributors from Real Groove magazine, plus me and any deadballers who can make it. Will be using coveritlive, the same set up as … Continue reading

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Back to the Future

Ladies and Gentlemen, Gilbert Arenas is back! OK, it may not be the best idea in the world. The Wizards season is pretty much over. Seems kinda dumb to bring back your star for nine games and risk further injury … Continue reading

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The Phony War Is Over

(video irrelevant, I was just desperately trying to find something to distract from NZ’s recent on-field performance, and this worked best) Hmmff. It seems that Short Of A Length has come out all guns blazing in the blog wars, ripping … Continue reading

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Indian Summers

Having been shivering my way through England and Scotland these past couple of weeks, with the only cricket news being that monumentally cool (if on another level ineffably sad) Stanford scandal all across the front pages – one I’m gonna … Continue reading

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DeadBall.co.nz is Back In Business

So we’re over (mostly) our maintenance period. From now until whenever we fall ALL future posts will be on deadball.co.nz. All comments, posts and links have been transferred over, so please don’t comment here, bookmark the new site and watch … Continue reading

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Coming Soon

Welcome to Dead Ball. This will be a sports blog based out of Auckland, New Zealand, which aims to cover the  various codes we follow with something like the idiosyncratic appeal we witness on the field, court and track, but … Continue reading

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