Lynn McConnell - View from Above

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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Hansen's view carries weight of experience

Steve Hansen with All Blacks' squad - Lynn McConnell pic Former All Black coach Steve Hansen has always been an outspoken advocate f...

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Another view of 1980 Olympic Games boycott

International Olympic Committee member Anita DeFrantz, a rowing bronze medalist in 1976, recounted her memories, and her lawsuit, against t...

All Blacks could play Wales three times in Oct-Nov

Should Test rugby be possible by November, the All Blacks could feature in three Tests against Wales. The two old rivals were set to me...

Poite still chips Owens on Eden Park penalty

British & Irish Lions and Wales hooker Ken Owens, the man at the centre of the controversial conclusion to the third Lions Test against ...

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Hard man lists contain many omissions

At a time when sports news outlets are struggling for content, list-making becomes much more prevalent. And imagination has certainly been...

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Wallabies were offered $200,000 for 1988 Rebel tour to SA

It has often been a source of conjecture in New Zealand rugby: how much did the Cavaliers get paid to make their rebel tour of South Africa ...

Monday, April 13, 2020

Pichot comes off the bench swinging

Amid all the publicity and discussion over the future of rugby in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Easter Sunday's announcement that A...

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About Me

Lynn McConnell: Albany, Auckland, New Zealand; A journalist since completing training at Wellington Polytechnic, now part of Massey University's School of Journalism, I have worked in two stints on The Southland Times (the second 10 years as Sports Editor), the Marlborough Express and the now-defunct Evening Post. I left the Post in 2000 to take up the position of New Zealand editor of CricInfo.com based in Christchurch, NZ. Then in 2005, I was appointed senior editor of Sportal New Zealand, based in Auckland. While sport has been the preoccupation of most of my journalistic life, I have always maintained an interest in history, politics, geography and world events. An avid movie-goer and a lover of all sorts of music, I have also written several books. The title of this blog, View from Above, is a reference to a column I used to write at The Southland Times based on light-hearted ramblings witnessed from my rooftop pressbox in the grandstand at Rugby Park in Invercargill.

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