NZ Breakers beat Cairns Taipans

History has been made! After eight seasons of trying, the New Zealand Breakers have become the first New Zealand team to win an Australian professional club title.

On their homecourt at the North Shore Events center in Auckland , American Import Gary Wilkinson led the Breakers with a 14 point haul.

Australian CJ Bruton hit two late three pointers in the fourth quarter to get the home crowd rocking as the NZ Breakers led by 19 points with just five minutes on the clock.

It was a convincing performance from the homeside, who lead for the entire game and squashed any doubts about their ability to fightback after their sluggish finish in game two of the finals series
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FULL TIME: Breakers 71 Taipans 53

Beer, Good for the brain.

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members!

In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

Alonso and Hamilton handed penalties.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso have been handed down a 20 second time penalty by the Malaysian stewards following their clash during the Sepang formula one GP event.

Lewis Hamilton was penalized for making more than one change of direction as he tried to defend his position from Fernando Alonso on the lap before he was hit by Alonso. The Spaniard, meanwhile, received the same penalty for causing a collision with Hamilton during the fight.

Hamilton's penalty promotes Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi to seventh in the race results and drops Lewis Hamilton to eighth. Alonso retains his sixth-place finish due to a large gap back to seventh place.

RNZAF Skyhawks going to museums.

The 10 year long saga of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's 17 mothballed Skyhawk fighter-bombers has finally come to an end, with nine being given away to museums and some being sold as spare parts.

The Skyhawks have been up for sale since 2001, when the previous government scrapped the Air Force's strike wing. The asking price for the 17 skyhawks was $155 million. In the past 10 years it has cost approximately $34 million just to store and maintain since they were decommissioned by the Labour government in 2001.

New Zealand minister of defence said he would offer eight of the jets to public museums in New Zealand and one to Australia as pieces of our aviation history for future generations.

The remaining airframes, engines, spares, ground support equipment, role- specific equipment, and documentation and publications will be sold separately through a request for proposals process.

In December, Dr Mapp said the Skyhawks and 17 Aermacchis had cost $34m to store and maintain