Weekend Sport with Jason Pine

Former Kiwi tennis star Marcus Daniell has moved away from the court and into helping athletes connect with charities.

Marcus is ​​the​​ executive director at High Impact Athletes, a non-profit organisation that he co-founded with fellow Olympian Hugo Inglis - which connects athletes with charities focused on global health, poverty, animal welfare and climate change. 

He joined Piney to explain further.

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The entirety of the All Blacks squad - minus Ardie Savea - have now arrived in Cape Town and they've been welcomed into the fortress they'll play at twice on the Greatest Rivalry tour.

A public event was held at DHL Stadium, with around 5000 fans watching on.

It's a city where the All Blacks have traditionally had strong support and they'll face the Stormers there next weekend as well as play the second test there.

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The Warriors have maintained 3rd place on the NRL table after a 42-6 blitzing of the Titans on the Gold Coast.

Warriors coach Andrew Webster was especially pleased former Titans Alofiana Khan-Pereira and Erin Clark, especially when Clark put a deft kick to Khan-Pereira who set up Leka Halasima to score.

Fullback Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad joined Piney to recap the action.

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The New Zealand Darts Masters is just around the corner. 

It’ll bring the biggest names to our shores to compete against our best local talent. 

One of those names is World Championship finalist Gian van Veen, who told Piney there’s definitely danger in the matches, as they’ve seen in the past that there’s are a lot of good players in our corner of the world. 

He says it’s also a good op...

Golden redemption for Eliza McCartney in the Women's pole vault at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.  

She's taking home her first major championship win after beating Australian favourite Nina Kennedy on count back after clearing 4 metres 65 in cold weather. 

Athletics commentator and former Olympian Sarah Cowley-Ross told Piney it was so wonderful to see Eliza on top of the podium after such a long journey in the pole ...

English cricket can't get enough of New Zealand coaches. 

Former Black Cap Stephen Fleming has been confirmed as the country's new test mentor, replacing former teammate Brendon McCullum. 

Cricket writer Cameron Ponsonby told Piney while they’ve gotten used to having the big kind of celebrity personality of McCullum over the last few years, it seems as though everyone wants things to calm down a bit. 

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Steven Adams has forged out an NBA career that has spanned longer than a decade, which has seen him contribute to some of the NBAs best teams, and is widely regarded as one of the strongest players in the league. 

He's back in New Zealand for his offseason, where he's partnered with the One NZ Warriors to launch a nationwide fundraising campaign aimed at giving more Kiwi kids the opportunity to participate in sport. 

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In the last hour, FIFA President Gianni Infantino has issued a statement on his proposal to sell off a section of FIFA tournaments, including World Cups, to private investors. 

When his plan came to light in the last few days, it was met with major opposition from all parts of the football family. 

UEFA, CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation all voiced their official opposition to it in very strong terms, threaten...