You knew we would end up discussing the haka at some point during this week – Joe Marler just decided to get the conversation started a little earlier with a verbal “grenade”, as Kevin Sinfield put it ...
A school haka performance is gaining millions of views across TikTok — and inspiring people around the world to learn about Māori culture. Performed inside a gymnasium and captured by TikTok user ...
The haka will be the main topic of conversation when New Zealand travel to face England at Twickenham in the 2024 Autumn Nations Series curtain-raiser on Saturday. This traditional Māori dance of haka ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races.
Not sure how you’d answer, but when someone calls me and offers me the chance to fly 17 hours across the globe to learn from the most bad-ass sports team on the planet, I say, “YES!” and then jump on ...
THE best haka ever performed is one of the more contentious debates in rugby, but there is no question when it comes to the worst. The famous Maori tradition is unrecognisable now to the unstable ...
It’s what representing their country is all about – walking out in New Zealand’s All Blacks jersey, facing their opposition, and delivering a spine-tingling, hair-raising Haka before the whistle blows ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Thousands gathered to honor Hawaii’s Iam Tongi during his concert and convoy on Tuesday including the Kahuku High & Intermediate School football team. The concert was held at Turtle ...
New Zealand head coach Steve Hansen has described the England team’s controversial response to the All Blacks’ Haka ahead of their Rugby World Cup semifinal as “fantastic.” While most teams stand in a ...
But the club’s 2025 got considerably worse nine days ago when a stand at their Tehtaan kentta stadium burned to the ground. It is the second time in the venue’s 91-year history that it has been ...