good time to revisit this story I wrote about the gym behind Israel Adesanya
Follow
James Borrowdale
@JamesBorrowdale
journalist & author
James Borrowdale’s Tweets
This is a beautiful story and welcome Caleb’s honesty and vulnerability.
3
4
48
Not often you walk away from a single interview with an athlete feeling that you have enough to give an insight into their lives, but in conversation All Black Caleb Clarke is charming, thoughtful and vulnerable. My profile from the Sunday paper:
3
Fresh from a life-changing trip to Malawi, All Black Caleb Clarke explains why he wants to be more “than the guy that just played rugby” in this moving interview with 📷 Geoffery Matautia
1
4
14
I took a look at what the future of international cricket might look like in the age of T20 leagues. From the February issue of but online now.
1
6
10
Show this thread
We recommend this long read by highlighting the impact of T20 franchise cricket on NZ cricket's landscape.
Some thoughts are also provided by on the parallels to be drawn with WI cricket.
1
4
15
I took a look at what the future of international cricket might look like in the age of T20 leagues. From the February issue of but online now.
1
6
10
Show this thread
A v nice write up from in which I am described as “laconic” (🤩) and swear much more than I realised at the time
2
2
12
A few years old now, but think this piece I wrote about the beauty of Neil Wagner at the bowling crease is kept relevant due to the continued beauty of Neil Wagner at the bowling crease. #NZvENG
1
2
10
wrote about the (uncertain) future of international cricket in the latest issue of , on sale now
Quote Tweet
With the global proliferation of well-rewarded professional leagues, top cricketers are on the pitch more than ever before. The paycheques are getting bigger as the risk of burnout grows — leaving players with a unique dilemma.
Find out more in our March issue, on sale now.
1
2
5
Melie Kerr is a wonderful cricketer and a remarkably brave young woman determined to make a difference – hope I captured a sense of both in this profile for
7
This is lovely writing.
Quote Tweet
just saw that Peter the T Rex is extending his stay at @aucklandmuseum for another year. These are some of the things I thought about when I met him for @MetroMagNZ metromag.co.nz/city-life/city
3
1
6
Anytime James Borrowdale writes about dinosaurs, I read it ASAP. You should too...
Quote Tweet
just saw that Peter the T Rex is extending his stay at @aucklandmuseum for another year. These are some of the things I thought about when I met him for @MetroMagNZ metromag.co.nz/city-life/city
2
9
just saw that Peter the T Rex is extending his stay at for another year. These are some of the things I thought about when I met him for
2
3
14
New from me from the Saturday paper: I spoke with Ana Scotney, whose latest film is out this Thursday, about artistic epiphanies, criminal justice reform and much else. She's gonna be a star
4
A review of the Ross Taylor bestseller
3
3
This is such a great review of what seems a middling book it demands does more sportswriting.
1
1
3
wrote about Ross Taylor's book and the limitations of the as-told-to sporting memoir for
1
3
9
2
I stumbled across this wonderful piece today—a few weeks into my own adventure reading the great Bascombe novels and spending the days with our newborn daughter.
Ford’s writing has surely been the second-best source of amazement for me lately.
Quote Tweet
Thank you to @TheSpinoffTV for, apropos of not much at all, publishing this essay on rereading the great Richard Ford as life increased by the factor of one baby. thespinoff.co.nz/the-sunday-ess
1
3
"New Jersey – its freeways and bypasses, its jaundiced capitalism, its landscape scarred by development – is described with relish, and the journeys through this postmodern morass are told with a soft perambulatory lyricism." This is a delight
Quote Tweet
Thank you to @TheSpinoffTV for, apropos of not much at all, publishing this essay on rereading the great Richard Ford as life increased by the factor of one baby. thespinoff.co.nz/the-sunday-ess
1
2
Thank you to for, apropos of not much at all, publishing this essay on rereading the great Richard Ford as life increased by the factor of one baby.
1
2
5
This is an excellent profile of Jimmy Neesham by .
On 2019 CWC final: “You can’t help but look back and think of little things you did, things that could’ve gone differently. But at the end of the day you are part of one of the greatest games of all time.”
Quote Tweet
"What, I asked, had the interminable run of bubbles been like as a human experience? “I’m not really sure it is a human experience, to be honest," he says."
northandsouth.co.nz/2022/04/03/the
Show this thread
2
7
I spoke with about covid, the grim psychological struggle of pro cricket when form deserts you, the heartbreak of the 2019 world cup and much else besides for
Quote Tweet
"What, I asked, had the interminable run of bubbles been like as a human experience? “I’m not really sure it is a human experience, to be honest," he says."
northandsouth.co.nz/2022/04/03/the
Show this thread
1
3
8
"People are dying and losing their jobs,” says of the early pandemic period. “You look around and go, ‘What’s the point? Why are we even out here?’” By
5
12
A notorious prison, a notorious case, insights into life before & after a police career, Aotearoa's potted history, and the rising underworld of organised crime: our #2019Ngaios Best Non-Fiction finalists immerse readers in compelling issues #yeahnoir @jaredsavageNZH
6
21
For guys who may have watched the Re: item on chemsex and are wanting to chat in a realistic, non-judgmental, and honest space with other guys like them, & have partnered together to run Rewired.
👉bit.ly/3lC4vSY
Quote Tweet
We spoke to a young man about his experience in the chemsex scene. Made with the help of @NZonAir
renews.co.nz/i-didnt-want-s
2
5
"I didn't want sex without drugs, and I used drugs to find sex." I wrote about life in the Auckland chemsex scene, and the help available to men who want it.
Quote Tweet
We spoke to a young man about his experience in the chemsex scene. Made with the help of @NZonAir
renews.co.nz/i-didnt-want-s
2
Terrific article ⤵️
The secrets of Trent Boult's success
7
26
There's a bumper edition of the week's best NZ sporting content, with and @keith_miller_nz. Phew, get in there: sportreview.substack.com/p/ten-tremendo
9
12
Show this thread
this just made my Monday morning a little less dreary. SO good
2
7
Wrote about one of my favourite cricketers for one of my favourite publications,
Quote Tweet
Trent Boult likes to keep things simple
Read the story of how he became one of New Zealand's all-time greats
es.pn/35liwuV
es.pn/35liwuV
3
14
1
2
1
Show this thread
11
15
I wrote something about cricket, fatherhood and time (with a detour into Virginia Woolf) for
1
10
28
reported the cannabis user and activist community perspectives on the referendum in his book Weed.
Struggling to think of any commercial news media organisation that made any effort at all.
Quote Tweet
This demonstrates how the cannabis referendum morphed into non-users declaring that they know what is best for users, while refusing to engage with user activists.
This is the evidence of how the campaign megaphone was only ever handed to those who could afford to pay for it.
twitter.com/publicaddress/…
This is the evidence of how the campaign megaphone was only ever handed to those who could afford to pay for it. twitter.com/publicaddress/…1
2
. speaks to Aureila Ora, a green fairy with a brazen Insta presence, who is prepared to defy the law to give people what they need. "I know that they are struggling because this current system isn’t working. I stopped being so cautious.”
1
1
1