The first football trophy contested on planet Earth in 2014 has been won by a team with the curious moniker of Kick His Ass Seabass.

Selectors took an extended squad of 14 to the Bay of Plenty to help finalise 12 players for the 2014 Bailey's National Sevens in Rotorua this coming weekend.

The call has gone out to Far North rodeo organisers to hold the open bull ride spectacle at 2pm in future after the Kaitaia rodeo took until 7pm to be wrapped up last Thursday.

Kerikeri accounted for Mangonui with relative ease to successfully defend the One Day Challenge Trophy in Taipa.

It's a rare enough thing for football in the Far North to see someone take up the whistle, and even more so when that person is a halfway decent player such as in the case of Kaitaia's Grant Morland.

Anyone turning up at Waipapakauri Domain on a rainy afternoon last Saturday could have been forgiven for thinking that the Northland league season had begun early.

In securing the NAKFA Cup last Wednesday, the Rest of the World side cast a long shadow over the annual 7-a-side social midweek summer soccer series on the Kaitaia College top fields.

Throwbacks won the Awanui touch tournament played in fine midsummer conditions on Sunday, after taking out Algeezys in a nail-biting finale by 3-2.

Organisers of the annual 7-a-side summer social football tournament have once again issued their usual challenge to other Far North sporting institutions to place gifts under the tree in the office of the Northland Age.

Far North duo determined to impress locals at national drifting championships this weekend

The renowned Seeka Dinghy Race in Kerikeri is to be reinstated after a lapse of several years

Kerikeri-based showjumper, Sophie Burling, celebrated winning the equestrian code award at the 2013 Konica Minolta Sport Northland Sports Awards held in Whangarei on Friday, November 29.

Local kura dominated the two divisions contested at the 3rd ASB Northland Secondary Schools Waka Ama Regatta on Lake Ngatu on Friday, November 22.

New Zealand's first dedicated playing field for the traditional Maori ball game ki-o-rahi at Waitangi domain, Te atarauarangihaeata, is in full readiness for the official opening.

Thanks to the efforts of literally a cast of hundreds, New Zealand's first carved community ki o rahi field at Waitangi will open soon.

Young Zadkiel Beazley Tango is representing the Kaikohe Amateur Swimming Club at the Special Olympics National Swimming Championships in Otago this week.

There are almost as many reasons for doing the Kerikeri Half Marathon as there are participants.

A last-minute try in a come-from-behind win saw Moerewa take out the third and final leg of the 2013 Northland Rugby Sevens at Simson Park on Saturday.

Kaikohe beat Kaitaia by 19 runs in a Twenty20 match on Sunday, in what was the first serious game of senior cricket played in Kaitaia College in quite some time.

Three gymnasts from the Far North representing Northland scored well at the Gymsports NZ Artistic National Competition in Napier from October 2-4.