New Zealand

Filipino FIBA ambassador LA Tenorio, second from left, shows the number for USA national basketball team during the FIBA World Cup draw 2023 in Quezon city, Philippines on Saturday April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Josefino de Guzman)

USA will open Basketball World Cup against New Zealand

By Tim Reynolds Apr. 29, 2023 09:41 AM EDT

Australia's Maddison Levi, left, prevents New Zealand's Jorja Miller from scoring a try during gold-medal Canada Sevens women's rugby match action in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, March 5, 2023. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Argentina men, New Zealand women win at Vancouver Sevens

Mar. 05, 2023 10:39 PM EST

FILE - Jim Boylen, right, supervises the on-court drills during the NBA basketball draft combine May 18, 2022, in Chicago. Boylen led the coaching staff Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, as the United States defeated Uruguay in a FIBA Americas game. The U.S. clinched a berth in the 32-team FIBA World Cup. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

US savors World Cup berth; Carmelo Anthony named ambassador

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 24, 2023 11:47 AM EST

1960 Olympic 5,000-meter champion Murray Halberg dead at 89

Dec. 01, 2022 12:15 AM EST
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Murray Halberg, who overcame serious injury to win the 5,000-meter gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and later devoted his life to...

India's Smriti Mandhana, back, hugs teammate Jemimah Rodrigues after India won the women's cricket T20 preliminary round match against Pakistan at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Jack Laugher defends diving gold at Commonwealth Games

By Courtney Walsh Aug. 04, 2022 04:06 PM EDT

Laura Kenny of England celebrates during the women's 10km scratch race final during the Commonwealth Games track cycling at Lee Valley VeloPark in London, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ian Walton)

Aussies change handlebars at Commonwealths and keep winning

By Courtney Walsh Aug. 01, 2022 10:20 AM EDT

FILE - Australia SailGP CEO and driver Tom Slingsby is doused by Nina Curtis after winning the $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 finale of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix, Sunday, March 27, 2022, in San Francisco. Former Olympic and America’s Cup champion Slingsby has joined New York Yacht Club American Magic in a bid to win back the most prestigious trophy in sailing, the team announced Tuesday, May 3. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Tom Slingsby joins American Magic for 37th America's Cup

May. 03, 2022 08:25 PM EDT

New Zealand's Michaela Blyde, left, scores a try as Australia's Charlotte Caslick tackles her during the gold-medal match on the final day of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in Langford, British Columbia, Sunday, May 1, 2022. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP)

Australia wins Langford title, clinches sevens world series

May. 01, 2022 10:02 PM EDT

Mark Todd to face disciplinary hearing over hitting a horse

Mar. 22, 2022 12:52 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Mark Todd, a two-time Olympic champion in equestrian and now a notable racehorse trainer, will face a disciplinary hearing on Thursday after a video on...

FILE - New Zealand's Valerie Adams takes a throw in the women's shot put final during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London on Aug. 6, 2012. Two-time Olympic women's shot put champion Adams has announced, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, her retirement at the age of 37. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Olympic shot put champ Valerie Adams retires

Feb. 28, 2022 07:38 PM EST

United States's Alex Ferreira reacts during the men's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Freezing cold to Olympic gold, New Zealand wins on halfpipe

By Eddie Pells Feb. 18, 2022 10:29 PM EST

FILE - Mark Todd, of New Zealand, riding Leonidas II, competes in the equestrian eventing team show jumping phase at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 9, 2016. Two-time Olympic equestrian champion Mark Todd has temporarily lost his license as a racehorse trainer pending an investigation into a video showing him striking a horse with a branch. The British Horseracing Authority has imposed the interim suspension on the 65-year-old New Zealander preventing him from racing horses in Britain or internationally. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Olympic great Todd loses training license for hitting horse

Feb. 16, 2022 06:48 AM EST

New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott, United States's Julia Marino, and Australia's Tess Coady celebrate after the women's slopestyle finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Sadowski Synnott is 1st Kiwi Winter Olympics gold medalist

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 06, 2022 06:41 AM EST

United States's Julia Marino (9), New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski Synnott and Australia's Tess Coady (5) celebrate after competing in the women's slopestyle finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Snowboarding shines, New Zealand gets 1st Winter Games win

By Eddie Pells Feb. 05, 2022 10:20 PM EST

New Year honors for champions Carrington and Pascoe in NZ

Dec. 30, 2021 03:23 PM EST
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Five-time Olympic kayak champion Lisa Carrington was awarded the title of Dame in New Zealand’s New Year honors list. ...