Day: December 11, 2019

United States women’s national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe, has been named as Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. The magazine selected Megan Rapinoe as the athlete whose performance embodied “the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement” and covered her year in a feature written by Jenny Vrentas.   Rapinoe who is the U.S. Women’s National […]

Historian Gareth Watkins uncovers significant dates in NZ’s rainbow history. 2 December 1897 Social reformer and activist Rewi Alley was born in Canterbury. Much of his life was spent in China, living there from 1927 until his death in December 1987.  Academic Roderic Alley believes Alley’s most significant legacy to China was “his faith in […]