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Fighting back from devastating injury - THURSDAY JULY 29, 2010
BIG MOMENT: Darryl Sabin and Graham Henry in the All Blacks changing room at Eden Park after New Zealand beat the Springboks 32-12 in their opening Tri-Nations clash.
Rugby nearly killed Darryl Sabin _ and it's playing a pivotal role in bringing his damaged body back to life.
When 19-year-old Darryl went down in a heavy tackle when playing the game he loves in April last year he got a serious head injury causing a severe bleed on his brain.
While he was in critical care in hospital at Auckland, Graham Henry was visiting a relative in the same ward.
Darryl's father, P-busting ex-policeman Mike Sabin, said the All Black coach had challenged the injured teenager to regain his health so he could watch from the sideline while the New Zealand team played a rugby test match.
On his admission to hospital, doctors had told Darryl's family the young man would be dead in hours. Then they said that if he survived he would be a vegetable.
But...
Our Cinderella seeks fundraising help - THURSDAY JULY 29, 2010
BEAUTY QUEEN: Cody Yerkovich is on her way to China.
Miss World New Zealand Cody Yerkovich will need a big suitcase when she heads off to China to compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
She needs to pack up to 20 evening gowns, double that number of casual dresses and goodness knows what underclothes a male reporter wouldn't want to ask about.
And Cody has a problem. The 18-year-old from Waiharara who is now a beauty queen is finding the path to a Miss Universe crown is paved with hard work.
Somehow, she has to come up with the cash for the extensive wardrobe she needs to compete against 134 other young woman in five weeks of charity shows before the out of this world contest is judged in the southern Chinese city of Sanya on October 30.
New Zealand is apparently the only country that doesn't pay for its representative to show the flag in the Miss Universe show.
According to Cody, some of the girls are on their state's pa...
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- Fiery rehearsals ... - Tuesday July 27, 2010
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- UN expert to hear of Maori rights - TUESDAY JULY 20, 2010
- Runaway car smash shocks occupants - TUESDAY JULY 20, 2010
- Accused appears in court - TUESDAY JULY 13, 20
- For the birds! - TUESDAY JULY 13, 2010
- Family wants its treasures returned - THURSDAY JULY 8, 2010
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