A professional rugby player in New Zealand died Monday in a car crash, his team announced. Sean Wainui, who played for the Maori All Blacks of the New Zealand Rugby Union, was 25. “As a playe… ...

The threat of a civil war over future governance of the professional game in New Zealand is rising just over a month before England are to play two Tests against the All Blacks, in Dunedin and ...

NZ Māori Rugby chair Dame Farah Palmer. Dame Farah Palmer (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato) and the NZ Māori Rugby Board have thrown their support behind Māori players expressing themselves ...

Dame Farah Palmer chairs the Maori Rugby Board. Photo / Mark Coote / www.photosport.nz. By RNZ. The Māori Rugby Board has joined the public stoush over governance of the game on the eve of a ...

Former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer was today elected as a new Independent Director of the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board. 34-year-old Dr Palmer succeeds Bill Osborne, who has stepped down.New ...

Timaru's Howie Peeti has replaced his friend Smiley Haua on the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board. Haua died in January and Peeti was elected to take his place on the Te Waipounamu board.

All eight candidates were endorsed by the New Zealand’s 26 provincial unions and the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board and Kirk’s Kirk’s election means he will step down from his position as New ...

“All of rugby walks alongside the Garden-Bachop family at this time and we are collectively united in our grief,” read the statement, which was also signed by the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board ...

Former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer was today elected as a new Independent Director of the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board. 34-year-old Dr Palmer succeeds Bill Osborne, who has stepped down.New ...