Topic: Rugby
World Cup-winners New Zealand will name their new coach on Friday with Steve Hansen the leading candidate, the team's official website said.The announcement of the All Blacks coach and his assistants has been keenly anticipated since Graham Henry stepped down on November ...
Jonny Wilkinson helped Toulon climb to third in the French Top 14 with the former England international contributing four penalties in his club's 34-12 win over Agen on Tuesday.Twenty four hours after he announced he was quitting the international scene Wilkinson starred ...
All Blacks and Canterbury Crusaders' wing Zac Guildford has been barred from the first Super 15 game next year as punishment for his drunken spree in the Cook Islands last month.In a ruling released Wednesday following a New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) ...
New Zealand rugby officials voiced confidence Wednesday that change is on the way despite the re-election of Frenchman Bernard Lapasset as International Rugby Board chairman.At an IRB Council meeting in Los Angeles on Monday, Lapasset was returned for a second term in ...
England fly-half great Jonny Wilkinson has retired from international rugby union."I would like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from international rugby," Wilkinson, said in a statement on his own website, www.jonnywilkinson.com."To do so fills me with great sadness, but ...
In a political fight to control the direction of global rugby for the next four years, Frenchman Bernard Lapasset edged former England captain Bill Beaumont on Monday to remain in charge.Lapasset was elected to a second consecutive term as chairman of the ...
England fly-half great Jonny Wilkinson retired from international rugby union on Monday."I would like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from international rugby," Wilkinson, said in a statement on his own website, www.jonnywilkinson.com."To do so fills me with great sadness, ...
Former England coach Sir Clive Woodward praised Jonny Wilkinson as a "marvellous team man" after the fly-half announced his retirement from international rugby union here on Monday.It was Woodward who gave Wilkinson the first of his 91 England caps in 1998 and ...
Bernard Lapasset and Bill Beaumont will resume their contest to be world rugby's top administrator in the unlikely setting of Los Angeles Airport on Monday.The vote in a election between current International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman Lapasset and vice-chairman Beaumont, a former ...
Two-time European champions Munster produced a trademark gritty performance, inspired by Irish fly-half Ronan O'Gara on his 100th European Cup appearance, to edge Welsh side Scarlets 17-14 on Saturday.Munster's three wins from their three pool matches have seen them prevail by the ...
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