Ten movies about basketball

As the Tall Blacks prepare to compete at the world champs in Spain, James Croot looks at 10 of the best cinematic depictions of basketball. > Share this story on Facebook Blue Chips Nick Nolte teamed up with a young Shaquille O’Neal for this excellent 1994 college basketball drama.

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International success for Musical Island Boys

Tawa’s Musical Island Boys are absolutely positively ecstatic after being recognised for their world-beating achievements in Wellington today. The barbershop quartet of brothers Will and Jeff Hunkin, Matthew Gifford and Marcellus Washburn, have been presented with an Absolutely Positively Wellington award by Mayor Celia Wade-Brown

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Architect first up for festival

Within the cardboard structure of the cathedral he designed, award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opened Christchurch’s biennial writer’s festival with stories of how it came about. As a child, Ban enjoyed watching his parents renovate their home by hand, to house the many woman who came from outside Tokyo to sew for his fashion designer mother

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