Rugbyheaven has currently has a story with the headline, “Williams moves back back to Blues territory.” Wow, you think, is Ali Williams headed back to the Blues? No! The story is about Paul Williams, who can hardly be moving “back” to the Blues, having not actually played for them before. I really hate these deceptive headlines, but it’s done on purpose to get me to click through to their site, and like an idiot, that’s exactly what I did.

I was lucky enough to go to the World Cup this year, thanks to Sportingo and now that I have been back in New Zealand for over a week and have had a chance to reflect on my experiences, I thought I might share a few stories that I find myself telling often.

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If you’ve noticed the lack of updates recently and thought this was yet another abandoned blog on the internet, you’d be wrong. The reason for the lack of updates of late is that I am currently in France for the World Cup. I recently won a contest through Sportingo.com and got the chance to go to the World Cup as a member of the press. Internet access has been a bit hard to come by in France at times and my first priority has been to get my articles submitted to Sportingo as they are paying the bills for this trip. I’m back in New Zealand on Saturday and regular updates will follow. In the mean time here is a link to my author page on Sportingo in case you are interested in what I have been up to.

I usually try not to critique other’s opinions, but I saw this article on Sportingo and Sports Freak and felt I should post a rebuttal.

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Right now I have two articles on allblacks.com. I’m totally stoked about it, both articles also appear here but will be getting far more exposure on the official All Blacks wed site.

This is Sports After Dark, my new blog devoted to the upcoming year of sports. It’s a huge one this year with the Commonwealth Bank Series starting on Friday, the Super 14 next month and both the Cricket and Rugby World Cups later in the year. So I figured I’d start a new blog to bring all the news and opinions about all these events.

So stay tuned, the fun’s about it begin.