England 26, Argentina 23 England finished third at the Rugby World Cup for the first time by stopping waves of late Argentina attacks and prevailing 26-23
South Africa’s sports minister mounted a defense of Springboks player Bongi Mbonambi this week after he was accused of directing a racial slur at an England opponent in
New Zealand and South Africa will contest this weekend’s Rugby World Cup final and bring one of sport’s most enduring, most intense rivalries to the ultimate
The next Rugby World Cup in 2027 in Australia will feature more teams, an extra knockout round and a week less to play. The late-2027
England 15, South Africa 16 The Springboks finally broke the English scrum, and once again their hearts, to reach the Rugby World Cup final and have
New Zealand 44, Argentina 6 Punished one week, punisher the next. New Zealand winger Mark Tele’a responded to being dropped for the Rugby World
South 3, North 1. Talk of a potential shift in the balance of power in world rugby toward the northern hemisphere might have been premature. According
Playing pretty rugby has never been high on the Springboks’ agenda, especially when it comes to the business of winning a World Cup in tense knockout
The Springboks were at their most stubborn to wreck France’s dream at the Rugby World Cup yesterday . The defending champions dug deeper than normal for
The lead was 14 points, the Then Fiji finally turned up. The World Cup quarterfinals delivered another heart-stopper on Sunday as England held on in the face of
Wales 17, Argentina 29 Argentina’s rugby team doesn’t have a totemic figure like Lionel Messi to bind it like the national soccer team did when
Ireland 24, New Zealand 28 New Zealand was thought to have showed too much razzle-dazzle and met not enough resistance to seriously trouble top-ranked Ireland going
One of the surprises of the Rugby World Cup pool stage was the only team not to concede a yellow or red card: South Africa. The
Aaron Smith made his New Zealand test debut against Ireland in 2012. The Irish were his first three tests, including his first test try. That
The Rugby World Cup is at its halfway stage, with 24 games done and dusted. The top story of the third set of matches was
Uruguay had made no secret of the fact it was targeting Italy and Namibia to record two wins in the tournament for the first time in its history. Leading
Ireland’s 5-3 trumped South Africa’s 7-1. The Springboks believed their fresh set of seven forwards would come off the bench and finish grinding down the Irish
PORTUGAL 18, GEORGIA 18 Portugal couldn’t have come closer to its first Rugby World Cup win in Toulouse. Os Lobos rallied from 13-0 down
South Africa unsurprisingly reverted to its strongest starting lineup to face top-ranked Ireland in a crunch pool game at the Rugby World Cup while also naming seven forwards and
New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa all flexed their muscles at the Rugby World Cup to rack up the points against underdog opponents in the second round of
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