THE Hunter Academy of Sport basketball talent development group will complete their 2007-08 program this weekend with a three-day visit to Canberra and the Australian Institute of Sport.

WHEN Ewen McKenzie last took the Waratahs to Canberra two years ago, he opted for an in-your-face approach. Knowing how the Brumbies prey on the inferiority complex of opponents, the former ACT player made certain the Waratahs had a larger-than-life presence in the nation's capital.

Bridget McManus found many ways to warm a winter weekend in the national capital.

WHILE 43 of their colleagues faced redundancy back at the Beaconsfield mine, Brant Webb and Todd Russell went shopping and sightseeing in New York.

With the Capitals so tall and so good, Stephen Howell reports that the others must fall short