England gets bronze after holding out hard-charging Pumas

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 Africans defend Mbonambi over racial slur allegation

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

The final will be supercharged by one of sport’s greatest rivalries

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

2027 World Cup in Australia expanding to 24 teams with shorter schedule

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

South Africa pulls off great escape to beat England and make the final

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

Errant All Blacks wing Tele’a proves a point in semifinal after axing

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

Pulsating quarterfinals highlight enduring strength of the southern hemisphere

 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

Erasmus thinks Springboks’ running game might be key in defense

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

Resilient Springboks ruin host France’s dream in quarterfinals

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

England ends Fiji’s crowd-pleasing run with tense win to reach semifinals

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

Argentina reaches semifinals after coming back twice to beat Wales

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

All Blacks give defensive masterclass to knock out Ireland

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

Springboks have earned back respect from referees, Erasmus says

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

Smith not burdened by All Blacks-Ireland history ahead of quarterfinal

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

Tournament reaches the halfway stage and Ireland confirms its status as favorite

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 players aim to shrug off Italy defeat with win against Namibia

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 beats South Africa 13-8 in titanic clash

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

England romp and Portugal draw

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

Springboks load bench with seven forwards to take on top-ranked Ireland

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

Big teams flex their muscles in the second round of games

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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