TOP LEAGUE
Former Crusaders and Wallabies coach Robbie Deans worries about the game in the south as Japan s Top League goes from strength to strength.
All Blacks playmaker Damian McKenzie has been listed to start at first five-eighth for the Chiefs in Saturday s game of three halves against the Crusaders and the Blues in Cambridge. The Chiefs have welcomed back their All Blacks for the pre-season fixture, including national captain Sam Cane, Brad Weber, Anton Lienert-Brown and Tupou Vaa’i, and each can play up to 40 minutes at Hautapu s Memorial Park. McKenzie has been named at 10 for the second half against the Blues, an indication perhaps that new coach Clayton McMillan is thinking about returning him there after switching to fullback permanently in 2019.
For the first time in his young life, Tanner, a 2-year-old shih tzu and yorkie mix of less than 10 pounds, was on his own. And he was lost in St. Johns County.
His owner, Rosalind Gordon, was injured in a fatal wreck on Interstate 95 on Dec. 31, just north of the Flagler County line. The wreck left her with a shattered leg.
Tanner was with Gordon in her vehicle. While he survived the wreck and was apparently unscathed, he ran away from officials in the aftermath and escaped.
It took several days and the help of strangers, including veteran volunteer dog rescuers, to find Tanner and bring him back home to South Carolina.